Richard Alderman is the Associate Dean at the University of Houston Law Center, where he has taught since 1973. He also holds the Dwight Olds Chair in Law and serves as the director of the Center for Consumer Law, one of the leading consumer law centers in the world. He is the author of more than twenty books and numerous articles. For more than 25 years, Dean Alderman has devoted his career to educating the public about the law — on the basis that not knowing your legal rights is the same as not having any. He regularly appears on radio, TV and in the paper as the “People’s Lawyer,” and has received state and national recognition for his efforts to educate people about their legal rights.