Alexis Anderson passed away on September 20, 2019. She was an Associate Clinical Professor at the Law School's Civil Litigation Clinic, which is one of the in-house clinical opportunities located in the Center for Experiential Learning. She joined 麻豆社区 College Law School in 1983 and taught a range of clinical, ethics, and legal history courses. Most recently, she had taught students serving as their clients鈥� front line lawyers in the Civil Litigation Clinic, taught a first year simulation course, Deals and Disputes, and directed the law school鈥檚 London Semester in Practice program for spring 2017.
Previously, she supervised BC Law's domestic extern program and taught and coordinated the required first year legal ethics and skills course. In 2013, she taught a simulation legal skills and ethics course at Renmin University in Beijing. In addition, she had taught both the survey Professional Responsibility course and an ethics seminar for students enrolled in the school鈥檚 experiential courses. Building on her interest in legal history, she taught a seminar focusing on the development of free speech theory both at the law school and abroad at the University of Nanterre in France. From 2001-04, she served as Director of Advocacy and faculty advisor to BC Law's Board of Student Advisors.
Prior to coming to 麻豆社区 College Law School, Professor Anderson was a litigator in a large, civil practice law firm in Philadelphia. She received her law degree and her Masters in Legal History from the University of Virginia. In past summers, Professor Anderson served as the project director for the State Department's Fulbright Summer Institute for International Scholars, a six-week graduate level course for foreign university professors co-hosted by 麻豆社区 College Law School and the School of Arts and Sciences. The program provided an opportunity for faculty to develop international contacts and share perspectives on the role of law in the development of the American character, political system, and culture. She continued to participate in summer institutes held at the law school for foreign students and was a Fulbright Specialist candidate.
Until her death, Professor Anderson remained active in regional and national clinical organizations and published in both the clinical, ethics and legal history fields.
