Associate Dean for Experiential Learning & Clinical Programs; Director of the Public Service Externship Program and Pro Bono Opportunities
Ben J. Altheimer Professor of Law
B.A., 1991, Hendrix College; J.D., 1994, University of Arkansas
Room 105L | Phone: 501-916-5465 | Email: [email protected]
Assistant: Larry Rhodes | Room 105G | Phone: 501-916-5424 | Email: [email protected]
Curriculum vitae | Bowen Law Scholarship Repository | HEINONLINE
Kelly S. Terry is the Associate Dean for Experiential Learning & Clinical Programs, Ben J. Altheimer Professor of Law, and director of the Public Service Externship Program and Pro Bono Opportunities at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law. Dean Terry also serves as a consultant to the Institute for Law Teaching and Learning, which is a national organization focused on best practices in law teaching, curriculum design, and assessment that is sponsored by the law schools at UA Little Rock, Washburn University, and the University of the Pacific. Prior to becoming a law professor, she practiced law for 12 years in a variety of settings, including private practice and state and federal government. She started her legal career as a trial attorney in the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., and, after that, served as an assistant attorney general in the Criminal and Civil Departments of the Arkansas Attorney General’s Office. Immediately prior to joining the UA Little Rock Bowen faculty, she was a partner for several years in a mid-sized commercial law firm in Little Rock, where she focused on business litigation and supervised associate attorneys. Dean Terry teaches the Public Service Externship course and co-teaches a professional-identity formation course for first-year students called Lawyering Foundations.
Her expertise includes legal education, externship pedagogy, assessment, and access to justice. She is a co-author of Externship Pedagogy and Practice (Carolina Academic Press 2023), a co-author of Assessment of Teaching and Learning: A Comprehensive Guidebook for Law Schools (Carolina Academic Press 2021), and a co-editor of Experiential Education in the Law School Curriculum (Carolina Academic Press 2017). She has published articles in the Clinical Law Review, the Journal of Legal Education, and the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy. Dean Terry has two publications forthcoming: From Student to Lawyer: An Integrated Approach to Professional Identity Formation in Law School (co-authored with Professors Kendall Kerew & Jerome Organ) and the fourth edition of Learning From Practice: A Text for Experiential Legal Education (co-edited with Professors Alexi Freeman, Kendall Kerew, and June Tai).