Honoree
Alfred C. Aman
AWARDS
- Titled Professor (1999)
- ROSCOE C. O'BYRNE PROFESSOR OF LAW
- Maurer School of Law
- Indiana University Bloomington
BIOGRAPHY
Alfred C. Aman, Jr. Roscoe C. O'Byrne Professor of Law, former Dean of the Indiana University Maurer School of Law–Bloomington, .and former Director, Indiana University Institute for Advanced Study, received his A.B. degree from the University of Rochester in 1967 and his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1970.
Professor Aman then clerked for Judge Elbert Parr Tuttle on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals from 1970-72. In 1972, he joined the law firm of Sutherland, Asbill and Brennan and practiced law in Atlanta and Washington, D.C. until 1977, when he joined the law faculty at the Cornell Law School. Professor Aman was a Professor of Law at Cornell until 1991 and served as director of its International Legal Studies program from 1988-1991. He came to Indiana as Dean in 1991 and served in that capacity until 2002. From 2002-2003, he was a Visiting Fellow in the Program in Law and Public Affairs and a Visiting Professor of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. From 2003-2007, he was Director of Indiana University’s Institute for Advanced Study and from 2007-2009, he served as Dean of the Suffolk University Law School.
He is the author of five books including The Democracy Deficit: Taming Globalization Through Law Reform (NYU Press, 2004), Administrative Law in a Global Era (Cornell University Press, 1992) and numerous articles, essays and reviews. He currently is the faculty editor of the Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, an interdisciplinary, peer review journal he helped to create in 1992. Professor Aman held a distinguished Fulbright chair and taught comparative administrative law at the University of Trento, in Trento, Italy in March, 1998. He has been a resident fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation's Conference Center in Bellagio, as well as twice being a visiting fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge. He was elected as an alumni trustee of the University of Rochester in 1979 and continues to serve on the Board as a Life Trustee.
Professor Aman then clerked for Judge Elbert Parr Tuttle on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals from 1970-72. In 1972, he joined the law firm of Sutherland, Asbill and Brennan and practiced law in Atlanta and Washington, D.C. until 1977, when he joined the law faculty at the Cornell Law School. Professor Aman was a Professor of Law at Cornell until 1991 and served as director of its International Legal Studies program from 1988-1991. He came to Indiana as Dean in 1991 and served in that capacity until 2002. From 2002-2003, he was a Visiting Fellow in the Program in Law and Public Affairs and a Visiting Professor of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. From 2003-2007, he was Director of Indiana University’s Institute for Advanced Study and from 2007-2009, he served as Dean of the Suffolk University Law School.
He is the author of five books including The Democracy Deficit: Taming Globalization Through Law Reform (NYU Press, 2004), Administrative Law in a Global Era (Cornell University Press, 1992) and numerous articles, essays and reviews. He currently is the faculty editor of the Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, an interdisciplinary, peer review journal he helped to create in 1992. Professor Aman held a distinguished Fulbright chair and taught comparative administrative law at the University of Trento, in Trento, Italy in March, 1998. He has been a resident fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation's Conference Center in Bellagio, as well as twice being a visiting fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge. He was elected as an alumni trustee of the University of Rochester in 1979 and continues to serve on the Board as a Life Trustee.
