| Honorific Prefix: | Professor |
| Dale A. Whitman | |
| Honorific Suffix: | Esq. |
| Birth Date: | 1939 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Citizenship: | American |
| Occupation: | Professor of Law |
| Known For: | Former dean of the University of Missouri School of Law |
| Professor | |
| Spouse: | Marjorie Miller (m. 1962) |
| Children: | 8 |
| Awards: | Order of the Coif |
| Website: | Mizzou Law Profile |
| Education: | Duke University, LL.B. (1966) Brigham Young University, B.E.S. (1963) |
| Alma Mater: | Duke University School of Law |
| Discipline: | Law |
| Workplaces: | University of Missouri University of North Carolina Brigham Young University University of Washington |
| Main Interests: | Property Real Estate Finance |
Dale A. Whitman is the former James E. 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 (BYU) in 1963 and his LL.B. law degree from Duke University in 1966. After practising for a short period with the firm of O'Melveny & Myers, LLP in Los Angeles, CA, Mr. Whitman began his academic career at the University of North Carolina.
Prof. Whitman's principal fields of interest are property and real estate finance. He is a co-author of five books and numerous articles in these areas.
In 1973, Whitman was among the founding faculty of the Brigham Young University Law School.
Whitman taught at BYU and then moved to the University of Missouri (MU) after a visiting professorship there in 1976. He went on to teach at the University of Washington in 1978, where he also served as associate dean before returning to MU in 1982 to become the law school's dean (1982 - 1988). Whitman specializes in property law, and he was the reporter for the Uniform Non-Judicial Foreclosure Act, approved in 2002.[1] In that same year, he also served as president of the Association of American Law Schools.[2]
Whitman retired from MU in the summer of 2007, taught at Washington University and the University of Florida during the 2007-08 academic year. Whitman was a visiting professor at the University of Arkansas School of Law and currently teaches at Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor School of Law beginning in 2019.