Julie Forrester Rogers

SMU Dedman School of Law

Julia (Julie) Patterson Forrester Rogers joined the faculty of the SMU Dedman School of Law in 1990 after working as a real estate attorney with the Dallas law firm of Thompson & Knight. Previously, she received her B.S.E.E. with highest honors in 1981 and her J.D. with high honors in 1985 from the University of Texas at Austin, where she was a member of the Texas Law Review, Chancellors, and Order of the Coif.

Professor Rogers teaches in the areas of Property, Real Estate Transactions, and Land Use. She writes and speaks on real estate finance, the residential mortgage market, predatory lending, and other topics in real property law. She was one of the first legal scholars to write about the problem of predatory lending in the subprime mortgage market, and she was awarded the John Minor Wisdom Award for Academic Excellence in 1995 for her first predatory lending article.  She is co-author of a property law casebook, Property Law: Cases, Materials and Questions, with Edward E. Chase, Jr. and W. Keith Robinson. For advancing research and scholarship at SMU, she was recently selected as a recipient of the 2024-2025 Provost Faculty Research Fellowship.