The presentation will be given by Dale A Whitman, the former James Campbell Professor of Law at the University of Missouri in Columbia, MO. where he retired in 2007.    He received his B.E.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Brigham Young University in 1963 and his law degree from Duke University in 1966.  After practicing for a short period with the firm of O'Melveny and Myers in Los Angeles, Whitman began his academic career at the University of North Carolina in 1967.

He was a member of the original faculty whe the Brigham Young University law school was founded in 1973.  He has since been a faculty member at the University of Washington and the University of Missouri-Columbia, University of Florida, South Texas Law School, Washingotn University in St. Louis, the University of Tulsa, the University of Utah, and UCLA.  During 2009-2010, Whitman served as Associate Area Legal Counsel of Aisia for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, where he dealt with the church's legal issues in 15 Asian countries.

He is co-author of five books and numerous articles.  He was a reporter for the Restatement (Third) of Property (Mortgages), published in 1997, and the Unioform Power of Sale Foreclosure Act, approved in 2002 by the Commissioners on Uniform Laws.  He is a member of the Order of the Coif, the American Law Institute, the American College of Mortgage Attorneys, and hte American College of Real Estate Lawyers, and is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.