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Derek M. Alphran
Associate Professor of Law
B.A., Morehouse College; J.D., University of California--Los Angeles (U.C.L.A.) School of Law.
Professor Derek Alphran is the Director of Academic Support, where he teaches classes in Legal Reasoning, conducts workshops on learning skills needed for successful completion of the study of law, and directs the Summer Mason Enhancement Program. He also teaches a class in Advanced Criminal Procedure and chairs the law school's Bar Passage Task Force.
Professor Alphran received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Morehouse College and his J.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law. He has also done post graduate study in Constitutional Law at Stanford Law School. Professor Alphran was a law clerk to the Honorable Elbert P. Tuttle, Senior Judge, United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit, from 1986-87 and became a Palmer Weber Fellow with the American Civil Liberties Union, Southern Regional Office, where he worked on a number of voting rights cases and other civil liberties issues.
From 1992 to 1994, Professor Alphran served as Special Counsel to Atlanta, Georgia, Mayor Maynard Jackson. His portfolio included drafting the city's minority business program and constitutional issues such as crack house legislation, handgun legislation, and criminal street gangs. He then worked in a community-based legal practice, focusing on state and municipal government law, federal civil rights law, and served as counsel to several minority-owned businesses.
Professor Alphran was a member of the faculty at the John Marshall School of Law in Atlanta, Georgia, where he taught criminal procedure, criminal law, constitutional law, civil rights litigation, and race and the law. He specializes in civil rights and voting rights law, consulting on affirmative action programs and monitoring election practices.
Contact
Telephone: (202) 274-7346
E-mail: dalphran@udc.edu
Academic Success Program
