Dennis Patterson, a Board of Governors Professor of Law at the Rutgers School of Law–Camden, has been named to the Law Panel for the United Kingdom’s forthcoming Research Excellence Framework.
Joining a distinguished panel of experts, Patterson, of Voorhees, will be tasked with evaluating the scholarship of legal academics throughout the United Kingdom.
“This is an opportunity to evaluate the best of U.K. scholarship,” Patterson says.
The Research Excellence Framework (REF) is the new system for assessing the quality of research in higher education institutions throughout the United Kingdom. It aims to develop and sustain a dynamic and internationally competitive research sector that makes major contributions to economic prosperity, national wellbeing, and the expansion and dissemination of knowledge.
Goals also include informing the selective allocation of research funding to higher education institutions, providing accountability for public investment in research, and demonstrating the benefits of that research.
An internationally recognized legal philosopher, Patterson is the author of Law and Truth (Oxford University Press, 1996). He is also the author of numerous books and articles in both commercial law and legal philosophy and has been a visiting professor at the universities of Berlin, Vienna, Texas, and Georgetown.
Patterson is a graduate of the University of Buffalo, where he received his undergraduate degree, graduate degree, doctorate, and Juris Doctor.
Patterson teaches courses in commercial law, contracts, and legal philosophy at the Rutgers School of Law–Camden. He is currently teaching a distance education course from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.
