Alfred l brophy biography

American lawyer

Alfred L. Brophy is an American legal scholar. He is retired. He held the Paul and Charlene Jones Chair in law at the University of Alabama from 2017 to 2019.

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] He has held the