International Conference on the Future of Legal Education

Daniel Filler

Daniel M. Filler is Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at Drexel University College of Law, in Philadelphia. He has also chaired Drexel’s Appointments Committee for each of the school’s first two years. Prior to joining the inaugural faculty of Drexel Law in 2006, he was a Professor of Law at the University of Alabama. At Alabama he taught clinical and non-clinical courses and established both a Special Education Clinic and a Death Penalty Defense Clinic. He received his A.B. from Brown University and J.D. from New York University School of Law. After law school, he clerked for Judge J. Dickson Phillips on the Fourth Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals, and practiced in New York with Debevoise & Plimpton. He then served as a public defender at both the Defender Association of Philadelphia and the Bronx Defenders. He has written in the areas of punishment, race, and the social production of law and chaired the ABA’s Alabama Death Penalty Assessment team. He blogs at The Faculty Lounge - www.thefacultylounge.org.