New Appleman on Insurance Law Library Edition

Jeffrey E. Thomas is Associate Dean for International Programs and Professor of Law at the University of Missouri--Kansas City. Dean Thomas graduated from Loyola Marymount University in 1983, and earned his Juris Doctor degree from University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall), in 1986. He is a past President of the Asia Pacific Risk and Insurance Association, past Chair of the Insurance Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools, and a member of the California Bar. Dean Thomas has held various leadership positions in the Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section of the ABA, the Lawyers Association of Kansas City, and the J. Reuben Clark Law Society. Dean Thomas has a national and international reputation in the field of Insurance Law. His work has been presented at academic and professional meetings throughout the U.S. and internationally, and has been published in academic journals in the U.S., Europe, China, Thailand and India. He is the co-author with Alan I. Widiss of the three-volume treatise Uninsured and Underinsured Motorist Insurance published by LexisNexis, which he updates annually. Dean Thomas served on the Editorial Board of the CGL Reporter, is a reviewer and an advisor to the Connecticut Insurance Law Journal, and was the Editor-in-Chief for the New Appleman Insurance Law Practice Guide. Dean Thomas previously taught at the University of Chicago as Bigelow Teaching Fellow, at Loyola Law School (Los Angeles) as an adjunct, at University of Connecticut as a summer visitor, and at Nankai University in Tianjin, China as a Fulbright Fellow. He was also designated the first Tiera M. Farrow Faculty Scholar at UMKC.