Regis Campfield is Professor of Law and Marilyn Jeanne Johnson Distinguished Law Faculty Fellow at Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law in Dallas, Texas. While a student, he was an editor of the Virginia Law Review. Professor Campfield joined the SMU faculty after teaching at Notre Dame Law School. Prior to that time he practiced with Squire, Sanders & Dempsey in Cleveland. A Life Member of the American Law Institute, a fellow and past regent of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, a fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel, and a former member of the executive council of the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law, as well as a member of the American Bar Association Section of Taxation, its Estate and Gift Tax Committee, and past chair of its Committee on Tax Practice Management, he is a member of the Estate & Gift Tax Committee, the Legal Education Committee, the Editorial Board, and the Technology Committee of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, and was formerly chair of the Committee on Tax Legislation and Regulations: Joint Property (Section of Real Property, Probate and Trust Law of the American Bar Association) and past editor of Probate Lawyer, the annual publication of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, and past editor or ACTEC Notes, the quarterly publication of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel.

He is the author of Estate Planning & Drafting (multiple editions), Estate & Gift Taxation, and co-author of Taxation of Income, Fiduciary Tax Guide, and Taxation of Estates, Gifts, & Trusts, all in multiple editions. He has been chair of the Notre Dame Tax and Estate Planning Institute, since its founding in 1975. Professor Campfield has been a visiting professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and was formerly a tenured faculty member of the Notre Dame Law School. As a tenured faculty member since 1977 at Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, he teaches courses in wills and trusts, estate and gift taxation, and estate planning.