Elmer F. Pierson Professorship and Professor of Law; B.A. (Yale University);
J.D. (University of California, Berkeley)
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Professor
Randolph received his B.A. from Yale University in 1966 and his
J.D. in 1969 from the University of California at Berkeley where
he was a Special Projects editor of the California Law Review.
From 1969 to 1970, Professor Randolph served as law clerk to
Chief Justice Kenneth J. O'Connell of the Oregon Supreme Court.
He then became an associate in the firm of O'Melveny &
Meyers of Los Angeles.
Prior
to joining the UMKC Law School faculty in 1980, Professor
Randolph also served briefly as assistant attorney general in
the state of Oregon and spent four years on the faculty at
Willamette College of Law in Salem, Oregon. He has been a
visiting professor at the J. Reuben Clark School of Law at
Brigham Young University (where the students named him 1983 Law
School Professor of the Year), at Loyola Law School in Los
Angeles, Pepperdine Law School, University of Kansas Law School,
Southwestern Law School, University of Iowa Law School, the
University of Missouri- Columbia School of Law and the St. Louis
University School of Law.
A
specialist in Real Estate Law, Professor Randolph has been chair
of the Property Law Section of the American Association of Law
Schools and has chaired the Missouri Bar Property Law Committee.
He is a Missouri Commissioner on Uniform State Laws - a delegate
to the National
Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL). He also serves as Executive Director
of the Joint Editorial Board on Uniform Real Property Acts, an
advisory board for NCCUSL, and on drafting committees for
several Uniform Laws. He
recently completed a term the governing council of the ABA
Section on Real Property, Probate and Trust Law and serves as
co-chair of its Joint Committee on E-Commerce and Electronic
Transactions. He is a
member of the American College of Real Estate Attorneys and the
American College of Mortgage Attorneys and was a reporter for
the American Law Institute/American Bar Association project on
Practice Skills Education in Real Estate Law. He is a
fellow of the American Law Institute.
In
spring 1994, Professor Randolph served as a visiting professor
at the Peking University Department of Law in Beijing, China. He
has continued to travel to China regularly, and has been a guest
lecturer at twelve other Chinese law schools. In 2002, he
co-authored the book Chinese Real Estate Law, and has published
many other articles on this topic. In 2003, he and Professor Lou
Jianbo established the Peking University Center for Real Estate
Law, and are co-directors. He is the first foreigner to serve as
a Director of a research center at Peking University.
Realtor
magazine recently named Professor Randolph one of the twenty
five most influential people in American Real Estate Law, the
only academic selected for this recognition. This award was based
largely on his creation and maintenance of a support network on
real estate law for real estate professionals, anchored by DIRT, the
internet discussion group on real estate law, where he publishes
a "Daily Development" every business day.
Professor Randolph is regularly listed in publications
identifying the outstanding real estate lawyers in the world.
Professor Randolph’s most recent project has been a revision of
the multi-volume treatise - Friedman and Randolph on Leases. He
took over maintenance of this widely recognized scholarly work
on commercial leasing in America upon the death of Milton
Friedman in 1997.
Professor Randolph is married and has three children
and is an active but mediocre tennis player and singer.
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