Legislation Faculties
Interim regulation dean of College of Florida named to everlasting function
Merritt McAlister, the interim regulation dean on the College of Florida Levin School of Legislation, has been elevated to serve within the dean function on a everlasting foundation. (Photograph from College of Florida Levin School of Legislation’s Sept. 25 press release)
Merritt McAlister, the interim regulation dean on the College of Florida Levin School of Legislation, has been elevated to serve within the dean function on a everlasting foundation.
“The dean’s management is important to persevering with to boost the faculty’s stature and prolong its affect and affect,” wrote Stuart R. Bell, the president of the College of Florida, in a memo Friday. “I’m assured that Dean McAlister is the suitable chief for that function.”
On the regulation college school since 2018, McAlister, who teaches and writes about federal courts, judicial decision-making, constitutional regulation and court docket administration, was named the interim dean in June 2023. She changed Laura Rosenbury, who turned the president of Barnard School in New York Metropolis.
Beforehand, McAlister spent eight years at King & Spalding, the place she turned a companion within the regulation agency’s nationwide appellate observe.
McAlister additionally clerked for Senior Choose R. Lanier Anderson III of the eleventh U.S. Circuit Courtroom of Appeals at Atlanta and for former U.S. Supreme Courtroom Justice John Paul Stevens.
Law360 additionally had coverage.
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