Christopher Odinet is a professor of law, Mosbacher research fellow, and affiliate professor of finance at Texas A&M University. His teaching and research specialize in commercial and consumer finance law and real estate transactions, with an emphasis on mortgage lending, insolvency, digital asset markets, and financial regulation. He is a co-author on several widely used casebooks on secured credit and real estate finance, and he is the author of Foreclosed: Mortgage Servicing and the Hidden Architecture of Homeownership in America (published in 2019 by Cambridge University Press).
In addition to his faculty role, Professor Odinet has been active in numerous professional and public service organizations, including the Association of American Law Schools, the American Bar Association, the Uniform Law Commission, the American Law Institute, and the American College of Real Estate Lawyers. Before coming to the Texas A&M, he served on the law faculties of the University of Iowa, the University of Oklahoma, and the Southern University Law Center. Prior to that, he was an attorney in the business and finance group at Phelps Dunbar LLP.