Professor Anthony Alfieri Publishes Article on Civil Rights Representation

Professor Anthony Alfieri, Dean’s Distinguished Scholar and director of the Center for Ethics and Public Service, recently published an article, “Racial Trauma in Civil Rights Representation,” with Angela OnWuachi-Willig in the Michigan Law Review.
Professor Anthony Alfieri Publishes Article on Civil Rights Representation
Professor Anthony Alfieri

Through the focus of the recent civil rights case of P.P. v. Compton, the article illustrates how trauma-informed lawyering can both advance civil rights and provide healing for affected communities and individuals.

Professor Alfieri teaches civil procedure, ethics, public interest law and leadership, social enterprise, and professional liability and lawyer malpractice. He has published more than 80 articles, essays, and editorials on ethics, civil rights, criminal justice, poverty law, professional liability, and the legal profession in leading journals and book anthologies. His work has been cited and downloaded more than 4,000 times in books, law journals, social science networks, and the media. 

At the Center for Ethics & Public Service, Professor Alfieri supervises graduate and undergraduate students working on education, research, and policy projects in the fields of civil rights and poverty law, environmental justice, social enterprise development and nonprofit governance, and oral history and documentary filmmaking. Under his direction, the Center for Ethics & Public Service has won the American Bar Association 1998 E. Smythe Gambrell Professionalism Award, the Florida Bar Seventh Annual 1999-2000 Professionalism Award, and the Miami-Dade County Commission on Ethics and Public Trust 2001 ARETE Award for nonprofit of the year.

 

 



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