Alfred Brophy
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Alfred Brophy | |
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| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania Columbia University Harvard University |
| Occupation | Legal scholar |
| Employer | University of Alabama |
Alfred L. Brophy is an American legal scholar. He holds the Paul and Charlene Jones Chair in law at the University of Alabama.
Early life
Brophy graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a bachelor of arts degree.[1] He earned a J.D. from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from Harvard University.[1]
Career
Brophy was a law clerk to John Butzner of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and practiced law with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in New York. He later became the was the Judge John J. Parker Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law. Since summer 2017, he has held the Paul and Charlene Jones Chair in law at the University of Alabama, where he teaches property, trusts and estates, remedies, and legal history.
Brophy is the author of several books, and the co-editor of the American Journal of Legal History.[2]
In August 2017, in the wake of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Brophy argued that Confederate monuments should remain, as "removal facilitates forgetting."[3]
Works
- Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 (2002)
- Reparations Pro and Con (2006)
- Transformations in American Legal History (2009 and 2010)
- Integrating Spaces (2011)
- Companion to American Legal History (2013)
- University, Court, and Slave: Proslavey Thought in Southern Colleges and Courts and the Coming of Civil War (2016)
- Experiencing Trusts and Estates (2017)
References
- ^ a b "Alfred Brophy". School of Law. University of Alabama. Retrieved August 17, 2017.
- ^ "Editorial board". American Journal of Legal History. Oxford University Press. Retrieved August 17, 2017.
- ^ Munshi, Neil (August 17, 2017). "Trump says it is 'foolish' to remove Confederate symbols". Financial Times. Retrieved August 17, 2017.
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