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Professor Odinet’s research focuses on commercial law, banking & financial law, and property law. His book titled "Foreclosed: Mortgage Servicing and the Hidden Architecture of Homeownership in America" was published by Cambridge University Press in 2019. Professor Odinet also has a forthcoming book with Oxford University Press titled "Digital Commercial Law: Private Law in the Age of Tokens, Platforms, and Automation."
As a recognized expert in his field, Professor Odinet has been quoted in numerous national media outlets, including The Washington Post, TIME, The Economist, NPR Marketplace, NPR Planet Money, and the American Banker. His scholarship has appeared in leading law reviews, and he is a co-author on several casebooks dealing with property, real estate, and commercial transactions.
In addition to his position at the law school, Professor Odinet holds a secondary faculty appointment in the Finance Department at the Texas A&M Mays Business School and serves as a Mosbacher Research Fellow with the Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics, and Public Policy at the Texas A&M Bush School of Government & Public Service.
He has previously served as a MacCormick Fellow at the University of Edinburgh Law School in Scotland, as a visiting researcher at the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) in Italy, as a senior visiting fellow and researcher at the École de droit de SciencesPo and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in Paris, and as a visiting professor at the University of Georgia School of Law.
Professor Odinet is active in numerous law reform organizations. He has served as a two-time commissioner with the Uniform Law Commission and as an advisor to several of that organization’s study and drafting committees. He is currently serving as co-reporter for a Uniform Law Commission committee investigating commercial law in verified/voluntary carbon credit markets and another committee studying installment land contracts. He previously served as the reporter for a committee studying the use of tokens and other crypto innovations in real estate transactions, as well as the associate reporter for a committee charged with drafting default rules for the management of tenancy-in-common real property. Professor Odinet is also an elected member of both the American Law Institute and the European Law Institute.
In professional and academic circles, Professor Odinet is a fellow of both the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and the American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers. Additionally, he has held several leadership positions with the American Bar Association’s Section of Real Property, Trust & Estate Law. Professor Odinet has also chaired both the Commercial and Consumer Law Section and the Real Estate Transactions Section of the Association of American Law Schools. He currently serves as co-editor of the Annual Survey of Consumer Finance Law, which appears in the American Bar Association’s The Business Lawyer publication.
Prior to joining the Texas A&M Law faculty in fall 2024, Professor Odinet was the Josephine R. Witte Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Iowa College of Law. Before that, he served on the faculties of the University of Oklahoma College of Law and of the Southern University Law Center.
Before entering academia, he practiced law in the business and finance group at Phelps Dunbar LLP. At LSU’s Paul M. Hebert Law Center, he was editor-in-chief of the Louisiana Law Review and the recipient of the W. Lee Hargrave Award.