Dan Croxall
Professor Dan Croxall joined the faculty at McGeorge School of Law in 2016. Croxall is a nationally recognized expert in alcohol regulation and created the world’s first ever Craft Beer Law class at a law school. Professor Croxall became the Associate Dean of Admissions in January of 2025.
Professor Croxall also teaches Civil Procedure, Evidence, Global Lawyering Skills I, II, and III, Professional Responsibility, and Torts.
Prior to joining the faculty at McGeorge, Professor Croxall practiced complex civil litigation and white-collar criminal defense at the world’s then largest law firm, DLA Piper LLP, for several years. Croxall then opened the world’s smallest law firm, Croxall Law, to focus his practice on representing independent craft breweries throughout California. Professor Croxall taught English at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo for four years before turning to a career in the law.
Since coming to McGeorge, Professor Croxall has become the nation’s leading legal scholar on laws and regulations that impact the craft beer industry specifically and the alcoholic beverage industry generally. He is a frequent media contributor to legal issues pertaining to the craft beer industry and is often called upon to present on craft beer law and alcoholic beverage law at various law schools and conferences, including at the AALS yearly conference, Harvard Law School, the UCLA Anderson School of Management, and Northwestern University.
Croxall has published law review articles concerning craft beer law and alcoholic beverage regulation with Northwestern University Law Review, Gonzaga Law Review, William & Mary Business Law Review, Loyola Los Angeles Law Review, Penn State Law Review, Florida State Law Review, Michigan State Law Review, and the Marquette Law Review. He also has published on Civil Procedure with the Missouri Law Review and the Cincinnati Law Review and has several articles in the works. In April of 2021, Professor Croxall organized and hosted the world’s first law review symposium focused on craft beer law, which included scholars and practitioners from around the country.
BA, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
MA, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
JD, University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law
Representative Scholarship and Activities
A Storm is Brewing: How Federal Ambivalence Regarding Below-Cost Pricing Turns a Blind Eye to Antitrust and Monopoly Risk in the Beer Market, 54 Loy. L.A. L. Rev (forthcoming 2020).
Helping Craft Beer Maintain and Grow Market Shares With Private Enforcement of Tied-House and False Advertising Laws, 55 Gonz. L. Rev. 167 (2019)
Craft Beer Law and Practice, Carolina Academic Press (Forthcoming 2020) (textbook)
Cheers to Central Hudson: How Traditional Intermediate Scrutiny Helps Keep Independent Craft Beer Viable, 113 Northwestern University Law Review (Online)1 (2018).
Inferring Uniformity: Towards Deduction and Certainty in the Miranda Context, 39 McGeorge L. Rev. 1025 (2008) (Student Comment)
Chapter 165: An Ethical Contribution to Poor Californians in Need of Legal Services, 38McGeorge L. Rev. 21 (2007) (Student Comment)
