After completing an undergraduate degree in history at the University of Colorado, Professor Dhooge attended the University of Denver College of Law where he received his Juris Doctor in 1983. He received his LL.M. in 1995 from the Georgetown University Law Center where he specialized in international and comparative law. Prior to coming to the College of Management, Professor Dhooge spent eleven years in private law practice and twelve years serving on the faculty of the University of the Pacific in California. 

Professor Dhooge is the author of three books and more than forty law review articles and has presented research papers and courses throughout the United States as well as in Europe and Asia. Professor Dhooge is the recipient of numerous research awards given by the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, including six Ralph C. Hoeber Awards granted annually for excellence in research. He was designated the outstanding junior business law faculty member in the United States by the Academy in 2002 and received the Kay Duffy Award for outstanding service in 2005. Professor Dhooge was designated as an International Scholar by the Soros Foundation in 2006.

Professor Dhooge currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business and is a past editor-in-chief of the American Business Law Journal and the Journal of Legal Studies Education.