About R. Wilson Freyermuth

Professor Freyermuth joined the law faculty in 1992. Before retirement in 2024, he taught in the areas of Property, Real Estate, and Secured Transactions, and has co-authored widely-used texts in all three areas. He received MU’s William T. Kemper Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching in 2007, and was appointed a Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor in 2009.

Professor Freyermuth is active in law reform efforts. He serves as the Executive Director of the Joint Editorial Board for Uniform Real Property Acts and as an Associate Reporter for the Restatement of Law, Fourth (Property). He has served as the Reporter for four uniform laws, including the Uniform Commercial Real Estate Receivership Act (2015), the Uniform Assignment of Rents Act (2006), and the Uniform Residential Mortgage Satisfaction Act (2005). He is an elected member of the American Law Institute, the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, the American College of Mortgage Attorneys, and the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers.

Professor Freyermuth clerked for the late Judge John D. Butzner, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and also worked with the Raleigh, NC firm of Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge and Rice (now Womble Bond Dickinson) in its commercial real estate and bankruptcy practice areas. He served as the Managing Editor of the Duke Law Journal and was elected to the Order of the Coif. He has served as a visiting professor at Duke, North Carolina, Washington University in St. Louis, Denver, and at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt.

Areas of Expertise

• Bankruptcy
• Commercial Law
• Property
• Real Estate
• Real Estate Finance

Recent Publications

• Crypto in Real Estate Finance
  75 ALABAMA LAW REVIEW 93 (2023).
• Residential Mortgage Default and the Constraints of Junior Liens
  57 UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE LAW REVIEW 207 (2019).
• Teaching and Scholarship Enrichment Through Involvement in Law Reform
  53 WAKE FOREST LAW REVIEW 935 (2018).