Provost and Professor of Law. Provost Dennis earned his B.S. with honors at Northwestern University in 1971 and his J.D. magna cum laude in 1974 at Northwestern, where he was senior editor of the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, an Urban Law Fellow, a member of the Order of the Coif and the National Moot Court Team, and first-place winner of the Northwestern University Moot Court Competition. Admitted to practice in Illinois in 1974, Provost Dennis clerked for U.S. District Judge Richard W. McLaren of Illinois. He served as a trial attorney in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, for which he also was special assistant to the assistant attorney general. He also was deputy staff director of the National Commission for the Review of Antitrust Laws and Pro-Procedures in Washington, D.C., and an associate with the Washington, D.C., firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, and Flom. He served as counsel to the American Bar Association study of the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Provost Dennis has served on numerous boards and committees and is a member of the American Bar Association Section on Legal Education Accreditation Review Committee. His publications include "Materiality and the Efficient Capital Market Model: A Recipe for the Total Mix" (William and Mary Law Review), "Two-Tiered Tender Offers and Greenmail: Is New Legislation Needed?" (University of Georgia Law Review), "Valuing the Firm and the Development of Delaware Corporate Law" (Rutgers Law Journal), "Mandatory Disclosure Theory and Management Projections" (Maryland Law Review), and "This Little Piggy Went to Market: The Regulation of Risk Arbitrage after Boesky" (Albany Law Review). Professor Dennis served as dean of the law school from 1991 to 1997.