Frederic White
Dean and Professor of Law
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Courses:  Property; Estates and Trusts; Land Use Control: Local Government Law

Frederic White is Dean and Professor of Law at Texas Wesleyan University School of Law, a position he has held since fall 2008. As dean, he is the chief academic and administrative officer of the School of Law.

Dean White began his legal career in 1973, as an associate attorney in the Cleveland, Ohio, office of the law firm of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, where he specialized in municipal finance. In 1978, he joined the law faculty of Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University where he remained until 2004. Besides teaching courses in property, wills and trusts, land use control and local government law, Dean White also served as associate dean for five years. As associate dean he was responsible for supervising admissions, registrar, financial aid, career services, student services, and secretarial services. He also served as chair or a member of the following committees: Faculty Appointments, Academic Standards, Admissions, Library, and Legal Career Opportunities Program (LCOP). He served as Vice President of the University Faculty Senate and as President of the University Black Faculty and Staff Organization.

Before joining the faculty at Texas Wesleyan School of Law, Dean White also served as Dean and Professor of Law at Golden Gate University School of Law, San Francisco, Calif., from 2004-08. He earned his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law after earning a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia College, New York, N.Y.

Selected Professional Activities and Publications

Outing the Madman: Fair Housing for the Mentally Handicapped and the Right to Privacy vs. the Landlord’s Duty to Warn and Protect, 28 Fordham Urban L. J. 783 (2001) (Reprinted in the ABA Journal of Affordable Housing, Summer 2001, Vol. 10, No. 4) [Hein] [LexisNexis] [Westlaw]

Ohio Landlord Tenant Law 2007-2008 Ed. (Thompson West 2007)

The Trouble with Email: Suspect Every Negative Declaration, 37 University of Toledo Law Review 191 (Fall 2005).  [Hein] [LexisNexis] [Westlaw]

Board Member, Law School Admission Council (LSAC), 1999-2001

Chair, Section on Part-Time Division Programs, Association of American Law Schools (AALS)

Committee member, ABA Section of Legal Education and the Bar, Committee on Bar Admissions