Allen K. Easley

Dean and Professor of Law
LL.M., Temple University School of Law
J.D., Temple University School of Law
B.A., College of Wooster

Dean Easley joined ULV in 2008 with nearly 30 years of successful academic experience in legal education. He is highly-regarded for his strategic thinking and his success as a law school administrator.

For 25 years, Dean Easley served as a member of the faculty at Washburn University School of Law. For 13 of those years, he also served the law school as associate dean. In 2004, he was appointed president, dean, and professor of law at William Mitchell College of Law, where he led the law school through a critical strategic planning phase.

Dean Easley has served on more than 15 ABA and AALS site inspection teams over the past 14 years, including ABA-AALS joint inspections, ABA inspections, ABA limited and full inspections of provisionally approved schools, special inspections for the ABA and the AALS, AALS membership inspections, and ABA foreign summer program inspections. He has also served in leadership positions in both the ABA and AALS, serving as chair of the ABA’s Questionnaire Committee, as chair of the AALS Membership Review Committee, and as a member of the AALS Executive Committee.

Dean Easley graduated 6th in his class to earn his J.D. at Temple University School of Law in 1974 and continued at Temple, earning his LL.M. in 1979 as a Law & Humanities Fellow in Legal Education. His academic legal interests include civil procedure, conflict of laws, and federal courts.

Of Children's Plates, Melting Pots, Tossed Salads and Multiple Consciousness:  Tales from a Hapa Haole, 3 UCLA Asian Pacific American Law Journal 75 (1996).

The Second Coming of the Eleventh Amendment, 30 Washburn L.J. 197 (1991).

An Examination of Choice-of-Law Theory and Practice in the Kansas Courts:  A Historical Perspective on Rules and Reasons, 27 Washburn L.J. 407 (1988).

The Supreme Court and the Eleventh Amendment:  Mourning the Lost Opportunity to Synthesize Conflicting Precedents, 64 Denver L. Rev. 485 (1988) (This major Eleventh Amendment article has been cited by other law professors in numerous law reviews including the University of Chicago Law Review, the University of Indiana Law Review and the University of Virginia Law Review, as well as in one of the leading Federal Courts casebooks, Low & Jeffries, Federal Courts and the Law of Federal-State Relations (Foundation Press 4th Ed. 1998)).

Class Actions—Washington Style:  A Look at Washington Superior Court Rule 23, 8 Univ. of Puget Sound L. Rev. 557 (1985).

Buying Back the First Amendment:  Regulation of Disproportionate Corporate Spending in Ballot Issue Campaigns, 17 Georgia L. Rev. 675 (1983) (This article was cited by other law professors in the University of Texas Law Review, the William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, the University of Miami Law Review, and several other law reviews.).

Government Regulation of Corporate Political Speech:  A Proposed Justification, 19 Circuit Rider #2 (Summer, 1980).

Allen K. Easley
Dean and Professor of Law
University of La Verne College of Law
320 East D Street
Ontario, California 91764
USA

Email: aeasley@laverne.edu