Douglas H. Cook

Dean Cook

PROFESSOR DOUGLAS H. COOK
ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
Regent University School of Law
1000 Regent University Drive
Virginia Beach, Virginia 23464
(757) 352-4331
dougcoo@regent.edu

Experience 

Professor, tenured, Regent University School of Law, 1998-present

(Associate Professor, tenured, 1992-1998)
(Assistant Professor, 1987-1992)

Courses taught:  Torts, Insurance, Health Care Law, Nonprofit Tax-exempt Organizations, Legal Writing, Advanced Torts seminars, Secured Transactions, Professional Responsibility

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Regent, 1999-present

Responsibilities:  Supervision, evaluation, and development of full-time and adjunct faculty, curriculum design and course scheduling, academic policy development and implementation

Director, Academic Assistance Program, Regent, 1999-2001

Director, Legal Writing Program, Regent, 1988-1993

Chair, Academic Policies Committee, Regent, 1994-2002

(I have also chaired the Curriculum Committee, the Promotion and Tenure Committee, and the Faculty Appointments Committee)

Chair, Regent Law Dean Screening Committee, 1999-2000

Adjunct Professor, Marshall-Wythe School of Law, College of William and Mary, 1995 (teaching Exempt Organizations in the LL.M program)

Interim Associate Dean for Academics, Regent University School of Undergraduate Studies, 2004-2005

Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs, Regent University, 2008.

Education 

J.D. (with honors), The Ohio State University College of Law, 1983 

Managing Editor, Ohio State Law Journal. 
                                   
B.A. (Magna cum laude) Miami University,
Oxford, Ohio, 1978 (English, Economics)
 (Phi Beta Kappa, National Merit Scholar)

Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, 1975-1976

Practice Experience

Of Counsel, Davis Law Group, P.C., Chesapeake, Virginia, 1995-present (Practice limited to nonprofit, tax-exempt organizations)

Attorney, Law Offices of Mitchell C. Laird, P.C., Phoenix, Arizona, 1985-1987 (General civil litigation practice)

Attorney, Jennings, Strouss and Salmon, Phoenix, Arizona, 1984-1985 (General civil litigation practice)

Professional Memberships               

Admitted to Arizona State Bar, 1984; District of Columbia bar, 1994; Virginia State Bar, 1995

American Bar Association

Publications

A Faith-Based Perspective on Tort Causation, 16 St. Thomas L. Rev. 455 (2004)

The Politically-Active Church, 35 Loyola-Chicago L. J. 457 (2004)

Sir William Blackstone:  A Life and Legacy Set Apart for God’s Work, 13 Regent U. L. Rev. 169 (2000)                                     

Cases and Materials on Nonprofit, Tax-Exempt Organizations, Lupus Publications Ltd., 1992 (Second Edition 1999)

A Day in the Life of the Tort Law, 49 Maine L. Rev. 111 (1997)

Does a Minister Have Legal Rights?  Pulpit Digest, July/August
1997, at 81 (co-authored with Carroll D. Stevens)

Personal Responsibility and the Law of Torts, 45 American Univ. L. Rev. 1245 (1996).

Can the Car Battery be Charged?  Intentional Torts Under Automobile No-Fault Statutes, 12 Cooley L. Rev. 163 (1995).

How I Spent My Sabbatical, or, What Happens When a Torts Professor is a Juror in a Negligence Case, 14 Rev. Litig. 219 (1994), reprinted in 44 Defense Law Journal 707 (1995).

Negligence or Strict Liability?  A Study in Biblical Tort Law, 13 Whittier Law Review I (1992).

Case Comment, Tort Liability for Cult Deprogramming: Peterson v. Sorlien, 43 Ohio St. L. J. 465 (1982).

Fields

  • Tort Law
  • Nonprofit/Charitable Organizations
  • Tax Exemption
  • Insurance Law