Terri R. Day

Visiting Professor of Law

(501) 916-5472 | Room 526
Email: [email protected]
Faculty Assistant: Sam Smith | Room 524 | (501) 916-5440 | [email protected]

Curriculum Vitae

Terri R. Day retired in 2024 from Barry University School of Law in Orlando, Florida, where she was a founding faculty member.  As a member of the Florida Bar, she served on the Standing Committee on Professionalism, a Bar Grievance Committee, and chaired an Unlicensed Practice of Law Committee.  She also served on the Advisory Board of Teen Court and was a recipient of the Judge Thomas L. Kirk Founders Award for her service.

Professor Day earned her master’s degree in social work from Case Western Reserve University.  Fifteen years later, she graduated second in her class from the University of Florida College of Law and was Editor-in-Chief of the Florida Law Review.  She clerked for the Honorable Patricia C. Fawcett of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida and subsequently earned her LL.M. from Yale Law School before entering academia.

She teaches Professional Responsibility, Torts, First Amendment, Constitutional Law, Civil Procedure, and Law and Psychiatry.  She has published numerous law review articles in her areas of teaching; her work has been cited by the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeals and the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Internationally, Professor Day has been a Fulbright Professor at the University of Sarajevo and has taught in Lithuania, Serbia, Spain, and at Peking University School of Transnational Law in China. Earlier in her career, she co-chaired a project in Cleveland, Ohio, which documented the testimonies of Holocaust survivors.  After moving to Orlando, she implemented a consumer hotline with a local TV station and produced the consumer segment which aired on local news.

Now living in Little Rock to be closer to family, she serves as a Visiting Professor of Law at the William H. Bowen School of Law at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.