Alison Grey Anderson

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Alison Grey Anderson Professor of Law Emerita Recalled to teach B.A. Radcliffe College, 1965 J.D. UC Berkeley, 1968 UCLA Law faculty since 1972 anderson@law.ucla.edu

Alison Grey Anderson currently teaches Contracts and Torts. She has received the University's Distinguished Teaching Award, the Eby Award for the Art of Teaching, the School of Law's Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the Fredric P. Sutherland Public Interest Award for 2001, which recognizes public service contributions by a faculty member. She was the faculty coordinator of the David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy for its first five years.

Professor Anderson has devoted much of her teaching career to curricular reform and the improvement of law teaching. She was selected as a Carnegie Scholar in the Carnegie Foundation's Program on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning for 2000-01.

As a student at Boalt Hall (UC Berkeley), Professor Anderson was articles editor of the California Law Review. After law school, she clerked for Judge Simon Sobeloff, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, before entering private practice with Covington & Burling. She served as Associate Dean in 2003.