Andrew McClurg

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Andrew McClurg
BornAndrew Jay McClurg [1]
(1954-10-15) October 15, 1954 (age 69) [2] [3]
East Lansing, Michigan, U.S. [4]
OccupationProfessor of Law
Nationality American
Education University of Florida (B.S., J.D.)

Andrew Jay McClurg (born October 15, 1954) is a professor of law holding the Herbert Herff Chair of Excellence in Law at the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, specializing in torts, products liability, privacy law, and firearms policy. [5] Although he has published numerous academic works, he is also known as a legal humorist, having written two legal humor books, as well as a monthly legal humor column in the American Bar Association Journal that ran for more than four years. [6] He is also the creator of Lawhaha.com, a legal humor website.

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Career

McClurg received his Bachelor of Science and Juris Doctor from the University of Florida, where he was a member of the Florida Law Review and graduated Order of the Coif. [6] He then served as a law clerk to U.S. District Judge Charles R. Scott (M.D. Fla.). [6] After working for several years as a litigator, McClurg began his academic career at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, where he eventually became the Nadine H. Baum Distinguished Professor of Law. He also taught as a visiting law professor at Wake Forest University, the University of Colorado, and Golden Gate University. In 2002, he became a member of the founding faculty at the Florida International University College of Law. [6] In 2006, he accepted the Herff Chair at the University of Memphis.

McClurg has received several awards for both teaching and research. His teaching awards include the University of Memphis's 2009-10 Distinguished Teaching Award and 2009 Excellence in Legal Education Award, as well as five other teaching awards (including four Teacher of the Year awards). He has received three law school excellence awards for research, most recently the 2017 Farris Bobango Award for Faculty Scholarship.

Publications

McClurg's published literature comprises seven books, including the popular law school prep book, 1L of a Ride: A Well-Traveled Professor's Roadmap to Success in the First Year of Law School. He has published twenty-seven law review articles, including those at Northwestern University, Boston University, the University of Notre Dame, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, American University, Cincinnati, Colorado, Oregon, UC Davis, UC Hastings, Temple, Connecticut, and Wake Forest; and roughly seventy-five other articles.

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  5. Andrew McClurg, from Carolina Academic Press, last visited March 23, 2009.
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