Eric F. Hinton
Director
Robert B. Rowling Center for Business Law & Leadership Dedman School of Law
Dallas, TX

Eric F. Hinton is the inaugural Director of the Robert B. Rowling Center for Business Law & Leadership at SMU Dedman School of Law. He has over 10 years of experience teaching international business law, European Union law, and ethics and compliance at SMU Dedman School of Law, Loyola Chicago University School of Law, and University of Illinois Chicago Law School. He has worked at two public Fortune 500 companies and two privately owned companies in Illinois, Texas, and Brussels, Belgium. Eric began his career practicing international trade law in Washington, DC, with an international law firm. He is the founder and past chair of the North Texas Ethics & Compliance Council and past chair of the ABA Export Controls and Economic Sanctions Committee. Eric holds an L.L.M. from the University of Leiden Law School (The Netherlands), a J.D. from BYU Law School, an M.A. from the University of Limerick (Ireland), and a B.A. from Utah State University. He studied international business law at the Sorbonne in Paris, France.