R. Wilson Freyermuth
John D. Lawson Professor
Curators' Teaching Professor
University of Missouri
School of Law
215 Hulston Hall
Columbia, MO 65211
Phone: (573) 882-1105
Fax: (573) 882-4984 
FreyermuthR@missouri.edu

Professor Freyermuth is the John D. Lawson Professor of Law and a Curators' Teaching Professor at the University of Missouri, where he arrived in 1992. He received a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1984, and a J.D. with highest honors from the Duke University School of Law in 1987. After clerking with the Honorable John D. Butzner, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Richmond, VA, Professor Freyermuth worked from 1988-1991 as an associate with the Raleigh, NC office of Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice. He has an adjunct faculty appointment at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University, where he teaches a short course on Real Estate Transactions. He has also taught as a visitor at the University of North Carolina, Duke, Washington University in St. Louis, and the University of Denver.

Professor Freyermuth teaches Property, Secured Transactions, Real Estate Transactions, Real Estate Finance, and Real Estate Leasing. A recipient of the 2007 William T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence, Prof. Freyermuth is a co-author of two casebooks published by West Group: "Real Estate Transfer, Finance and Development" and "Property and Lawyering." He is also a co-author of the popular student treatise "Understanding Secured Transactions" (Matthew Bender/LEXIS).

Professor Freyermuth serves as the Executive Director of the Joint Editorial Board for Uniform Real Property Acts, and served as the Reporter for both the Uniform Residential Mortgage Satisfaction Act and the Uniform Assignment of Rents Act. In 2009, he was elected as a Fellow in the American College of Real Estate Lawyers. He has also served as a Property Fellow for the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) and has authored ten CALI lessons in Property law, which are accessible through CALI's website.

Professor Freyermuth is married to Shari Freyermuth, who is a Teaching Associate Professor in the University of Missouri Department of Biochemistry and the Assistant Dean of Academic Programs in the College of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources. They have one son, Jacob (18) and one daughter, Sarah (15). Prof. Freyermuth is an active member of Saint Andrew's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Columbia, is an avid (if marginally competent) golfer and a devoted fan of the North Carolina Tar Heels and the Atlanta Braves.