Alfred Brophy
Alfred L. Brophy holds the Paul and Charlene Jones Chair in law at the University of Alabama. Before joining the Alabama faculty in summer 2017, he was the Judge John J. Parker Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.[1] Prior to his academic 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]
Brophy teaches in property law and trusts and estates, and is the author of a number of publications in these areas.[1] He received an A.B. from the University of Pennsylvania, a J.D. from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University.[1] His books include University, Court, and Slave: Proslavey Thought in Southern Colleges and Courts and the Coming of Civil War (2016), Reparation Pro and Con (2006), and Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 (2002). He is the co-author of Integrating Spaces (2011) and Experiencing Trusts and Estates (2017) and co-editor of Transformations in American Legal History (2009 and 2010) and Companion to American Legal History (2013). He is co-editor of the American Journal of Legal History.