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Attanasio, John B.

OUTSTANDING STUDENTS ENROLL AT DEDMAN LAW

The Dedman School of Law is proud to welcome all of our new first year students. The first class of evening law students in over thirty years enrolled in August. Over 40% of the evening students have graduate degrees and they average approximately ten years work experience each. They come from a wide variety of careers, including college professors, physicians, teachers, real estate brokers, engineers, a playwright, a pilot, a television reporter and a refugee volunteer. Their median LSAT score is a 159 and their median undergraduate GPA is a 3.46. The most represented out-of-state university is MIT.

Our day students are also exceptional. They set a record for the highest median LSAT and GPA in at least the last 25 years. Their median LSAT score is a 163, which represents approximately the top ten percent of all LSAT takers. Their median undergraduate GPA is a 3.75 and they represent 75 different undergraduate schools, including Harvard, Columbia, Vanderbilt, Howard, NYU and UC-Berkeley.

 

Law School Faculty

Attanasio, John B.

Dean and William Hawley Atwell Professor of Constitutional Law

B.A., 1976, University of Virginia
J.D., 1979, New York University
Diploma in Law, 1982, University of Oxford (Oriel College)
LL.M., 1985, Yale University

E-mail: jba@mail.smu.edu

Dean Attanasio has taught at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and Notre Dame Law School, where he also served as the John M. Regan Jr. Director for the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies from 1991-1992. He was dean of Saint Louis University School of Law from 1992-1998. As a 1990 Fulbright Award recipient, Dean Attanasio delivered lectures on American constitutional law in Moscow and throughout the former Soviet Union. He has advised various legislative and judicial officials in emerging democracies including Bulgaria, the former Czechoslovakia, Russia, Estonia, Hungary, and South Africa. In addition, he arranged the first United States visit of five justices of the Russian Constitutional Court and accompanied them to Washington, D.C. With Dean John Sexton of the New York University School of Law, he has organized two summits on constitutional adjudication that featured justices of the U.S. Supreme Court and the constitutional courts of Russia, Germany, and Italy. He also organized a symposium on the South Africa constitutional transformation featuring three justices from that country's Constitutional Court. Dean Attanasio has taught constitutional law, First Amendment, civil procedure, torts, and jurisprudence. He is co-author (with Norman Redich, Joel Goldstein, and the late Bernard Schwartz) of Constitutional Law and Understanding Constitutional Law and has written numerous articles for legal journals, including the New York University Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, Georgetown Law Review, and the American Journal of Comparative Law. He has written and lectured in the areas of international law, constitutional law, federalism, human genetic engineering, and legal education.

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