Donald J. Weidner is Dean Emeritus and Alumni Centennial Professor at Florida State University College of Law. He served as dean from 1991 to 2016 and was one of the longest sitting law school deans in the U.S. He received his J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law. Dean Weidner is a leading scholar on partnerships, limited liability companies and fiduciary duties. In 2011, he was named one of nine Transformative Law Deans of the Last Decade by ''The Leiter Report''. He has served as a visiting professor at the law schools of the University of Texas,

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and the

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, and worked at the New York firm of

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. He is co-author of ''The Revised Uniform Partnership Act'' (West Group, 2019), a member of the

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, and served as the Reporter for the

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. He was appointed to the Uniform Law Commission by Florida Governor

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in 2011 and reappointed in 2015. He also serves as a mediator and arbitrator with Upchurch Watson White & Max and is an arbitrator with the

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Florida State University College of Law faculty profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Weidner, Donald J. American legal scholars Florida State University faculty University of Texas School of Law alumni Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Members of the American Law Institute