Mechele Dickerson
- Arthur L. Moller Chair in Bankruptcy Law and Practice
- Distinguished Teaching Professor
- Professor
A. Mechele Dickerson joined the Texas Law faculty in 2006 and has a courtesy appointment at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. She currently serves as the Faculty Athletics Representative for the University of Texas and previously served as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Texas Law. Her research focuses on financial vulnerability, consumer debt, and housing affordability issues involving the middle class.
Professor Dickerson regularly teaches Federal Civil Procedure and Remedies and has also taught courses on college athletics, COVID, and the American middle class. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute and the American College of Bankruptcy.
Always remember who you were before you came to law school, and vow not to let that person disappear completely once you become a lawyer.
A. Mechele Dickerson joined the faculty in January 2006 and served as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2006-2011. She has a courtesy appointment at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and is the Faculty Athletics Representative for the University of Texas.
Professor Dickerson is a nationally recognized scholar on financial vulnerability, consumer debt, housing affordability, and racial and economic disparities. She regularly teaches Remedies and Federal Civil Procedure at the School of Law, has taught a class on civil procedural disputes that arose between the two Trump presidencies, and has taught numerous cross-listed interdisciplinary graduate-level courses on the American middle-class and the COVID pandemic. Dickerson's book on the middle class will be available in January 2026 (https://www.ucpress.edu/books/the-middle-class-new-deal/paper). Dickerson is also the author of Homeownership and America's Financial Underclass: Flawed Premises, Broken Promises, New Prescriptions.
After clerking for Hon. Nathaniel R. Jones, Dickerson practiced law in Washington, D.C. and Norfolk, Virginia before joining the law faculty at the College of William and Mary.
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year-2012
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Article
Race Matters in Bankruptcy Relief
Mechele Dickerson, Race Matters in Bankruptcy Relief, 20 ABI Law Review 623 (2012).
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Article
Public Interest, Public Choice, and the Cult of Homeownership
Mechele Dickerson, Public Interest, Public Choice, and the Cult of Homeownership [Symposium: Business Law as Public Interest Law], 2 UC Irvine Law Review 843 (2012).
year-2011
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Book Chapter
Insolvency Principles: The Missing Link in the Odious Debt Debate
Mechele Dickerson, Insolvency Principles: The Missing Link in the Odious Debt Debate, in 261 Sovereign Debt: From Safety to Default (Robert W. Kolb, ed.; Wiley, 2011).View Article
year-2010
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Article
Vanishing Financial Freedom
Mechele Dickerson. “Vanishing Financial Freedom.” In 61 Alabama Law Review, Page 1079 (2010).
year-2007
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Book Chapter
The Story of Patterson: Plainly Protecting Pensions
Mechele Dickerson, The Story of Patterson: Plainly Protecting Pensions, in 121 Bankruptcy Stories (Robert Rasmussen, ed.; Foundation Press, 2007).