Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Nadine Baum Professorship
B.A., 1991, J.D., 1995, Brigham Young University
Room 206 | Phone: 501-916-5413 | Email: lpgustafson@ualr.edu
Assistant: Leslie Middleton | Room 206 | Phone: 501-916-5415 | Email: lmiddleton1@ualr.edu
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Lindsey Gustafson is a professor of law at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law, where she has been a member of the faculty since 1998. She was appointed associate dean for Academic Affairs on August 17, 2020.
Since joining the faculty, she has worked extensively on improving student scholarship and supporting faculty-edited, peer-reviewed journals. She was hired as the founding executive editor of The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process, and still serves on its editorial board. She is also a managing editor for The Journal of Legal Writing Institute and a co-editor of The Law Teacher, published by The Institute for Law Teaching and Learning. She has published articles on improving student scholarship and on the impact of technology on student writing, and has created three new classes to train students in writing and editing legal scholarship. She has also frequently presented at both regional and national legal writing conferences on effective teaching methods. Professor Gustafson has been nominated four times for the Bowen School of Law Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award, and has won the award twice, in 2004 and 2014. Prior to joining the law school, she clerked and then served as staff attorney for several Utah trial court judges. Professor Gustafson is a graduate of the J. Reuben Clark School of Law, Brigham Young University, where she was the executive editor of the Brigham Young University Law Review and elected to the Order of the Coif.
