Christopher J. ("C.J.") Peters is Dean and C. Blake McDowell, Jr. Professor of Law at Akron Law. He has been a legal educator for more than twenty years, having taught at the law schools of the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan, Wayne State University, Loyola Marymount University, the University of Toledo, and most recently the University of Baltimore before joining Akron Law in June 2017. Dean Peters earned his bachelor's degree summa cum laude from Amherst College and his law degree cum laude from the University of Michigan, where he served on the Law Review. He practiced in civil litigation with the Chicago office of Latham & Watkins before beginning his teaching career.

Dean Peters teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, legal and constitutional theory, and civil procedure. He has won multiple teaching awards, and his articles have been published in the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the Columbia Law Review, and many other journals. He also has published two books, Precedent in the United States Supreme Court (Springer 2013) and A Matter of Dispute: Morality, Democracy, and Law (Oxford University Press 2011), and currently is editing a volume about American legal scholarship for Cambridge University Press. He lives in Hudson, Ohio with his wife, who is a librarian and researcher, and their Chihuahua mix, Dingo.