Alfred Brophy
Alfred Brophy | |
|---|---|
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania Columbia University Harvard University |
| Occupation | Legal scholar |
| Employer | University of Alabama |
Alfred L. Brophy is retired.
Early life
Brophy was born in Champaign, Illinois.[citation needed] He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a bachelor of arts degree.[1] He earned a J.D. from Columbia University, where he was an editor of the Columbia Law Review, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he held a Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fellowship.[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.[1]
He taught at the University of North Carolina School of Law from 2008 to 2017, where he became the Judge John J. Parker Distinguished Professor of Law.[1] Since summer 2017, he has held the Paul and Charlene Jones Chair in law at the University of Alabama.[1]
Brophy is the author of several books, co-author of two casebooks, and co-editor of three other volumes. Since 2016 he has been the co-editor of the American Journal of Legal History.[2]
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 c d e "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.
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