University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law

The urban public law school with a small liberal arts feel

Patrick A. Randolph Elmer F. Pierson Professorship and Professor of Law; B.A. (Yale University); J.D. (University of California, Berkeley) email 816-235-2379 Web Links 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, the University of Kansas Law School, the University of Southern California Law School and St. John’s 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), and has been on drafting committees for several Uniform Laws. He served six years on the governing council of the ABA Section on Real Property, Probate and Trust Law and currently is 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 a fellow of the American College of Mortgage Attorneys, which honored him last year with a special award for his contributions to US and Chinese Real Estate bars. He also is a fellow of the American Law Institute. He is a frequent invited speaker nationwide on real estate topics. 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 twenty 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. He also serves as Director of the UMKC/Peking University Summer School in Chinese Law. In January 2006, the Beijing Municipal Government awarded Professor Randolph the Great Wall Friendship Prize, its highest award given to a foreigner, in recognition of his many contributions to the Chinese legal system. Realtor magazine has 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. After supplementing the existing text for five years, he released the Randolph Edition of Friedman on Leasing in 2004. He also has just released a new casebook on Property Law, (w. Bernhardt & Palomar), published by Carolina Press. Professor Randolph is married and has three children and two grandchildren.