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Bobby L. Dexter
Associate Professor of Law

Email: dexter@chapman.edu
Phone: (714)628-2633

Professor Bobby Dexter joined the full-time faculty at Chapman in the Fall of 2006 after serving as a Westerfield Fellow at Loyola University (New Orleans) College of Law. A specialist in tax and business law, he previously served as a tax partner in the Chicago office of Foley & Lardner, LLP and later at a “Big Four” accounting firm. Professor Dexter’s scholarship has appeared in numerous journals, including the Harvard Law Review, the Tulane Law Review, the University of Kansas Law Review, and the Mercer Law Review; his most recent article, “Tenure Buyouts” will be published in the University of Pittsburgh Law Review in 2009. While in practice, he co-authored (as principal draftsman) Tax Management Portfolio #546, Annuities, Life Insurance, and Long-Term Care Insurance Products and co-edited the insurance company chapter of the Mertens Federal Income Taxation treatise.

As presenter or discussant, Professor Dexter has appeared at various conferences around the United States and Canada including the Annual Meeting of the Law & Society Association (2008), the National Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association (2008), the Junior Tax Scholars Workshop (at NYU) (2008), Director’s Roundtable (2008), and the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) (2008). At Chapman, Professor Dexter currently serves on the law school’s Faculty Appointments Committee as well as its Academic Achievement Committee. He also serves as one of four law school representatives on the Chapman University Faculty Senate as well as the Senate’s Faculty Governance Council.

Professor Dexter received his B.A., magna cum laude, from Yale University and his J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he served on the Editorial Board of the Harvard Law Review with U.S. President Barack Obama. Professor Dexter teaches Federal Income Taxation, Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions, Secured Transactions, and Corporations.

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