Jeffrey E. Thomas is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at the
University of
Missouri –
Kansas City . Dean Thomas graduated from Loyola Marymount University in 1983, and received his Juris Doctor degree from the
University of
California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall), in 1986. He is a member of the California State Bar, the American Bar Association, the Association of
American
Law
Schools , and the
Asia Pacific Risk and Insurance Association. Dean Thomas is President of the Asia Pacific Risk and Insurance Association, a Past Chair of the Insurance Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools, and has served in various leadership positions in the Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section of the
ABA . Dean Thomas is author of numerous articles on Insurance Law published in the and internationally. His work has been presented at academic and professional meetings throughout the and in , , Europe, Hong Kong, , , , and . He is the co-author with Alan I. Widiss of the three-volume treatise “Uninsured and Underinsured Motorist Insurance” published by LexisNexis, has been on the Editorial Board of the CGL Reporter, and is an Advisor to the Connecticut Insurance Law Journal. Dean Thomas previously served as a Bigelow Teaching Fellow at the
University of
Chicago , a Fulbright Fellow in , and the Tiera M. Farrow Faculty Scholar at UMKC. Dean Thomas is also Editor-in-Chief of the New Appleman on Insurance Practice Guide.