Biography:
Professor Wessman came to Tulane in 1987 from the Atlanta office of the Los Angeles law firm of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky, and Walker, where he was a commercial litigator for six years. He clerked for US District Court Judge Mariana Pfaelzer in Los Angeles. While at Harvard, he was a member of the Somerville Bar Review. He has been a musician and a renovator of houses, and has been known to engage in hiking, scuba diving, and cycling. He teaches courses in contracts, secured transactions, and bankruptcy, as well as an occasional seminar on jurisprudence. He has twice been selected by the third year class to receive the Felix Frankfurter Award for Distinguished Teaching, most recently in 1999.  During the spring 2007 semester, Professor Wessman taught as a visiting professor at the University of South Carolina's law school.

Courses:
Fall 2009 - Contracts I
Spring 2010 - Contracts II; Commercial Law: Secured Transactions
Other courses - Introduction to Jurisprudence; Commercial Law: Bankruptcy