Rex R. Perschbacher ( 1946 – 2018) was the Daniel J. Dykstra Endowed Chair at

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, where he presided as Dean from 1998-2008. In addition to his impressive career as a legal scholar, he was credited with leading "an intellectual renaissance" at the Law School and with spearheading the King Hall Expansion and Renovation, a $30 million effort to upgrade the Law School's Martin Luther King, Jr. Hall. Perschbacher taught at UC Davis from 1981 until 2016, with an emphasis on the areas of

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, and Clinical teaching. He received the law school's Distinguished Teaching Award in 1992, and a Special Citation Affirmative Action and Diversity Achievement Award in 2001. He received an A.B. in philosophy from

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in 1968 and a J.D. from

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in 1972, where he was Articles Editor for the California Law Review and elected to the

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. Perschbacher served as law clerk to Alfonso J. Zirpoli of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. He entered private practice with Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe in San Francisco before teaching at

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, the

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, and the

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law schools. He published articles in the areas of civil procedure, professional responsibility and lawyers' negotiations, and was co-author of United States Legal System: An Introduction (1st and 2d eds.); Cases and Materials on Civil Procedure (1-5th eds.); California Civil Procedure; California Legal Ethics (1-6th eds.) and Problems in Legal Ethics (3-8th eds.). He served on the board of directors of the Legal Services of Northern California and on the Governing Committee on Continuing Education of the Bar from 2000-2003.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Perschbacher, Rex R. 1940s births Living people Stanford University alumni UC Berkeley School of Law alumni UC Davis School of Law faculty Year of birth missing (living people)