Dennis M. Patterson, a Board of Governors Professor, has expertise in
commercial law, trade law, and legal philosophy.
Professor
Patterson holds a Ph.D. in philosophy and a J.D. from the
University at Buffalo. He has been awarded senior research grants from the Fulbright Commission, Humboldt Stiftung, and
the American Council of Learned Societies. He was the 2005 holder of the
Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Law at Trento University. The author
of numerous books and articles in both commercial law and legal
philosophy, Professor Patterson has been a visiting professor at the
universities of Berlin, Vienna, Texas, and Georgetown. He was on leave
from Rutgers, teaching at the European University Institute in Florence,
Italy, where he held the Chair in Legal Theory and Legal Philosophy
from 2010-2017. He returned to
Rutgers in July 2017.
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