Andrea A. Curcio
Professor of Law Emerita- Education
J.D., The University of North Carolina (high honors)
B.A., Colgate University (cum laude)
- Specializations
Civil Procedure
Clinical & Experiential Education
Law Practice
Property
Trial Advocacy
- Biography
Andrea A. Curcio graduated with high honors from the University of North Carolina in 1988. She spent six years working as a litigation attorney in North Carolina. Curcio began her teaching career at Georgia State University College of Law in 1994 where she is now a full professor. She teaches Civil Procedure, Evidence and Civil Pre-Trial Litigation.
She has written in the areas of tort reform (punitive damages), gender-related issues including sexual violence, sexual harassment and campus sexual assault, and legal pedagogy and assessment, including developing a survey instrument to help measure and tailor cultural sensibility learning outcomes, and bar exam reform. Curcio has served as a reporter for the Georgia Supreme Court Equality Commission when it examined how the Georgia justice system could improve its treatment of sexual violence victims. She is a frequent contributor to the Best Practices in Legal Education blog.
In the spring 2007, Curcio was awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to teach in China. While in China, she was appointed an honorary professor to South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China. In spring 2008, she was named Professor of the Year at the College of Law and she won the Georgia State University Teaching Effectiveness Award. In 2010, Curcio was the university’s nominee for the State of Georgia Regents’ Teaching Excellence Award. In 2011, she was the inaugural recipient of the College of Law’s David J. Maleski Teaching Effectiveness Award and in 2013-14, she was the inaugural recipient of the BLSA Bernadette Hartfield Faculty Award. In 2018, Curcio was a principal investigator in an AccessLex grant award study that looked at issues involving the LSAT and the bar exam.
Curcio has served as a board member for the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) and remains an active member of SALT’s Committee on Issues in Legal Education. She has served on the University’s Center for Teaching and Learning Advisory Board, has served on ABA committees, and has engaged in various other academic and professional service. She is actively involved in the Atlanta metro area community, most recently working as a college advocate for under-privileged high school students.
- Publications
Books
Andrea A. Curcio & Deborah Young, Case File, Monique Adams v. Corr-Train, Inc. (National Institute for Trial Advocacy 2002).
Book Chapters
Andrea A. Curcio, Gregory T. Jones, & Tanya M. Washington, Essay Question Formative Assessments in Large Section Courses: Two Studies Illustrating Easy and Effective Use, in Exploring Learning & Teaching in Higher Education 349 (M. Li & Y. Zhao, eds. 2015).
Andrea A. Curcio, Nisha Dogra, & Teresa Ward, Using Existing Frameworks to Develop Ways to Teach and Measure Law Students' Cultural Competence, in The Legal Profession: Education and Ethics in Practice (David A. Frenkel ed., 2013).
Andrea A. Curcio & Denise DeLaRue, Participating in Jury Selection, in LexisNexis Practice Guide: Georgia Civil Trial Procedure (2011-2012 ed., 2011).
Andrea A. Curcio & Denise DeLaRue, Preparing for Trial, in LexisNexis Practice Guide: Georgia Civil Trial Procedure (2011-2012 ed., 2011).
Andi Curcio, Using Real-Life Context and Writing Exercises in Substantive Courses, in Assessment, Feedback, and Evaluation: Eighth Annual Conference of the Institute for Law School Teaching, July 13-14, 2001, Spokane, Washington (2001).
Articles
Deborah Jones Merritt, Andrea Anne Curcio, & Eileen Kaufman, Enhancing the Validity and Fairness of Lawyer Licensing: Empirical Evidence Supporting Innovative Pathways, 73 Wash. U. J.L. & Pol'y 96 (2024).
Andrea A. Curcio & Alexis Martinez, Are Discipline Code Proceedings Another Example of Racial Disparities in Legal Education?, 22 U. Md. L.J. Race, Religion, Gender & Class 1 (2022).
Carol Chomsky et al., A Merritt-orious Path for Lawyer Licensing, 82 Ohio St. L.J. 883 (2021).
Mary A. Lynch & Andrea A. Curcio, Institutional Service, Student Care-Work, and Misogyny: Naming the Problem and Mitigating the Harm, 65 Vill. L. Rev. 1119 (2020).
Andrea A. Curcio, Teresa E. Ward, & Nisha Dogra, A Survey Instrument to Develop, Tailor, and Help Measure Law Student Cultural Diversity Education Learning Outcomes, 38 Nova L. Rev. 177 (2014).
Andrea A. Curcio, Using Care Files to Test Student Learning, Ctr. For Teaching &Learning Newsl., (2002)
Andrea A. Curcio, Teresa M. Ward, & Nisha Dogra, Educating Culturally Sensible Lawyers: A Survey of Student Attitudes About the Role Culture Plays in the Lawyering Process, 16 U. W. Sydney L. Rev. 98 (2012).
Andrea A. Curcio, Evidence Exams Using a Case File, AALS Evidence Sec. Newsl., Spr./Sum. 2009, at 8.
Andrea A. Curcio, Moving in the Direction of Best Practices and the Carnegie Report: Reflections on Using Multiple Assessments in a Large-Section Doctrinal Course, 19 Widener L.J. 159 (2009).
Andrea A. Curcio, Assessing Differently and Using Empirical Studies to See If It Makes a Difference: Can Law Schools Do It Better?, 27 Quinnipiac L. Rev. 899 (2009).
Andrea A. Curcio, Gregory Todd Jones, & Tanya M. Washington, Does Practice Make Perfect? An Empirical Examination of the Impact of Practice Essays on Essay Exam Performance, 35 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 271 (2008).
Patricia Ross McCubbin, Malinda L. Seymore, Andrea Curcio & Llewellyn Joseph Gibbons, China's Future Lawyers: Some Differences in Education and Outlook, 7 Asper Rev. Int'l Bus. & Trade L. 293 (2007).
Andrea A. Curcio, Gregory Todd Jones, & Tanya M. Washington, Developing an Empirical Model to Test Whether Required Writing Exercises or Other Changes in Large-Section Law Class Teaching Methodologies Result in Improved Exam Performance, 57 J. Legal Educ. 195 (2007).
Andrea A. Curcio, Civil Claims for Uncivilized Acts: Filing Suit Against the Government for American Indian Boarding School Abuses, 4 Hastings Race & Poverty L. J. 45 (2006).
Andrea A. Curcio, The Georgia Roundtable Discussion Model: Another Way to Approach Reforming Rape Laws, 20 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 565 (2003-2004).
Andrea A. Curcio, A Better Bar: How and Why the Existing Bar Exam Should Change, 81 Neb. L. Rev. 363 (2002).
Andrea A. Curcio et. al., Society of American Law Teachers Statement on the Bar Exam, 52 J. Legal Educ. 446 (2002).
Andi Curcio, Courtroom Visits as a Way to Learn Evidence, Law Tchr., Fall 2000.
Andrea A. Curcio, Breaking the Silence: Using Notification Penalty and Other Notification Measures in Punitive Damage Cases, 1998 Wis. L. Rev. 343 (1998).
Andrea A. Curcio, Painful Publicity, an Alternative Punitive Damage Sanction, 45 DePaul L. Rev. 341 (1995-1996).
Andrea A. Curcio, Pre-Trial Motion Practice, 24 Trial Briefs Mag. 20 (4th Q. 1992).
Andrea A. Curcio & Donald H. Beskind, Discovering a Defendant's Statement to His Insurance Company's Claims Adjuster, 23 Trial Briefs Mag. 10 (3rd Quarter 1991).
Andrea A. Curcio & Donald H. Beskind, Making Slip and Fall Jury Instructions Less Slippery, 23 Trial Briefs Mag. 14 (1st Quarter 1991).
Andrea A. Curcio & Donald H. Beskind, Are You Your Child's Keeper, 22 Trial Briefs Mag. 32 (3rd Quarter 1990).
Popular Press
Andrea A. Curcio, Carol L. Chomsky, & Eileen Kaufman, How to Build a Better Bar Exam, N.Y. St. B. J., Sept. 2018, at 37.
Unpublished Papers
Other
Andrea A. Curcio, Skills Exercises for Civil Procedure (Wolters Kluwer, Forthcoming 2016)
Andrea A. Curcio, Lopez v. Salter, an online and hardcopy civil procedure experiential learning exercise (Wolters Kluwer, 2013)