Dean Dennis has extensive experience in legal education and expertise in securities,
antitrust, corporate law, civil procedure and law and economics.
He became founding dean at Drexel after serving as provost, the head of campus, at
Rutgers-Camden and dean of the Rutgers-Camden School of Law.
Dean Dennis has held an elected seat on the American Law Institute for nearly two decades
and chaired numerous committees of the American Bar Association Section on Legal
Education as well as the Association of American Law Schools.
He is the chair of United Way Board of Camden County, former vice chair of the Camden
County Regional Legal Services Board and a current trustee of the National Multiple
Sclerosis Society.
Dean Dennis worked as an associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom after
serving as a trial attorney and special assistant to the assistant attorney general in
the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Prior to those appointments, he
clerked for U.S. District Court Judge Richard McLaren, in Chicago.
Earning his J.D. at Northwestern University School of Law, he was senior editor of the
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology and served on the National Moot Court Team,
winning first place in the Miner Moot Court Competition. He was a member of Order of the
Coif.
His scholarship focuses on applying modern financial theory to corporate law, strategic
corporate behavior and antitrust law.
