W. Robert Gray
Professor of Law
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Courses: Administrative Law,  First Amendment, Jurisprudence Seminar, and National Security Law.

Professor Gray joined the faculty at Texas Wesleyan University School of Law in 1990 (then Dallas/Fort Worth School of Law). He accepted a tenure-track position with Texas Wesleyan University School of Law in 1995. Prior to teaching, Professor Gray had a variety of legal experience, including time as a partner at Perry-Miller, Hawkins, Beasley & Gray; an assistant attorney general for the state of Texas; an attorney for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of the General Counsel and associate attorney for Van Ness, Feldman, Sutcliffe, Curtis & Levenberg.

Professor Gray earned his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School. He holds an M.A. from the University of Chicago Divinity School and an M.A. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He earned his B.A. summa cum laude from the University of Texas. Professor Gray received the following awards as a professor: Paul Tillich Award from his students in 1998; students’ award for inaugural publication by a professor of the law school in 1991; teaching excellence awards by students in 1991, 1993 and 1997; and the Law Review Award, 1997. 

Selected Publications

The Four Faces of Affirmative Action: Fundamental Answers and Actions, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001.

Public and Private Speech: Toward a Practice of Pluralistic Convergence in Free-Speech Values, 1 Tex. Wesleyan L. Rev. 1 (1994). [Hein] [LexisNexis] [Westlaw]

The Essential-Functions Limitation on the Civil Rights of People With Disabilities and John Rawls's Concept of Social Justice, 22 N.M. L. Rev. 295 (1992). [Hein][Westlaw]

Limitations on the FDIC's D'Oench Doctrine of Federal Common-Law Estoppel: Congressional Preemption and Authoritative Statutory Construction, 31 S. Tex. L. Rev. 245 (1990). [Hein][Westlaw]

The Intangible-Rights Doctrine and Political-Corruption Prosecutions Under the Federal Mail Fraud Statute, 47 U. Chi. L. Rev. 562 (1980). [Hein]