Faculty Details
Chance Meyer
Visiting Professor of Practice
Professional Background
Dr. Chance Meyer is a learning expert and professor in New England Law’s Academic Excellence Program. Before joining New England Law and earning a doctorate in education from the Peabody College of Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt, Dr. Meyer served as Assistant Dean of Academic Success and Professionalism at Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law.
Prior to becoming an educator, Dr. Meyer was a capital defense attorney representing death-sentenced inmates in trial and appellate courts, in state and federal jurisdictions. He served as a law clerk to U.S. District Court Judge Robert T. Dawson. His research ranges from evidence-based practice and justice pedagogies in legal education to Eighth Amendment issues surrounding the death penalty
Courses
Areas of Expertise
Publications
A Model of Evidence-Based Practice for Law Schools to Improve System Outcomes, 55 St. Mary’s Law Journal (2024)
Major Reform with Minor Risk: Implementation of Change Initiatives as a Learning Challenge, 22 University of New Hampshire Law Review (2024)
The Gray Box of Legal Analysis: Disentangling Knowledge and Skill, University of Detroit Mercy Law Review (2024)
Knowledgeless Practice, 43 Quinnipiac Law Review (2024)
Distinguished Commentary: Beyond Best Practices, 6 Raising the Bar (2023)
Law Schools Need Improvement Science, Now More Than Ever, American Bar Association (2020)
Online Malign: Digital education can outshine the classroom, if we stop expecting it to fail., New England Law Review (2020)
Twas the Devil: Hearing the Constitutional Infirmity of the Modern American Death Penalty in the Bygone Songs of Ozark Folklore, Mississippi Law Journal (2019)
The Newly Informed Decency of Death: Hall v. Florida Endorses the Marshall Hypothesis in Eighth Amendment Review of the Death Penalty, Stetson Law Review (2017)
Hurst v. Florida’s Ha’p’orth of Tar: The Need to Revisit Caldwell, Clemons, and Proffitt, University of Miami Law Review (2016)
Scholarly Work
SSRN Profile: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2749123