David P. Weber
David P. Weber joined the Creighton University School of Law Faculty in July 2008. Professor Weber graduated magna cum laude from St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota, with his B.A. in Economics. In 2005, he received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Minnesota, where he graduated magna cum laude. At the University of Minnesota he was co-editor-in-chief of the Minnesota Journal of Global Trade (now the Minnesota Journal of International Law), and a student supplemental instructor for civil procedure. He is a member of Order of the Coif.
Prior to joining the faculty, Professor Weber was an associate at the law firm of Fredrickson & Byron, P.A., in Minneapolis, Minnesota where he did corporate work including work in mergers and acquisitions; general corporate counseling and entity formation; real estate acquisitions and development; and sales and distributorship agreements. While in private practice, Professor Weber served for over two years on the Board of Directors of Centro Legal, Inc., a non-profit provider of legal services to the Hispanic community. Prior to law school, Professor Weber worked as a project manager for Polaris Carga, S.A., in Guatemala. Professor Weber speaks fluent Spanish and has spent time living in Guatemala, Costa Rica and Nicaragua.
Professor Weber researches and writes in the areas of immigration and commercial law. His most recent articles are:
The Intangibles of Stripping: Why Article 9 Should Not Leave You Baring Your Assets (Applying a Common Law Remedy to a Creature of Statute)," (forthcoming in the Mississippi Law Journal); Halting the Deportation of Business: A Pragmatic Paradigm for Dealing with Success, 23 GEO.IMMIGR.L.J. (forthcoming 2009); United States vs. Lara: Federal Powers Couched in Terms of Sovereignty and a Relaxation of Prior Restraints, (October 1, 2007). North Dakota Law Review, Vol. 83, No. 2, p. 735, 2007.
Professor Weber teaches Contracts, Immigration Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Negotiable Instruments.
Courses Taught:
Contracts I
Immigration Law
Mergers and Acquisitions
Negotiable Instruments