Under authoritarian pressure, law schools may be tempted to self-censor or compromise their missions. Adaptive leadership offers deans and administrators strategic and moral tools to regulate stress, preserve mission integrity, and cultivate leadership across their communities. Complementing this, the Rule of Law Working Group—through the Holloran Center and Mellon-funded “Pluralizing” Legal Professional Identity project—is creating resources to embed democracy, equity, justice, and the rule of law into the curriculum.
Tania Luma, Clinical Professor of Law and Assistant Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Tania Luma is a clinical professor and the assistant dean for diversity, equity & inclusion at Loyola Chicago School of Law. Dean Luma works to promote a culture that values and supports diversity through work in five main areas: institutional strategic planning, programming, community building and sense of belonging, student support, and leadership development. She teaches Lawyers as Leaders and has taught legal writing and legal skills classes. After earning her JD from UIC Law in 2009, she practiced civil litigation in the Cook County Child Protection Division, representing children affected by abuse and neglect. At DePaul University, she taught Critical Thinking, Criminal Justice, and Homeland Security, and helped DePaul create assessments of student critical-thinking abilities and collaborated with colleagues to assess incoming students. She also studied public leadership at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government and used this training to coach and advise individuals and institutions on leadership and organizational development.
Kendall Kerew, Clinical Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Experiential Education, and Externship Program Director, Georgia State University College of Law
Kendall Kerew is the associate dean for Experiential Education at the College of Law, where she is also a clinical professor and director of the Externship Program. She teaches Contracts, Elder Law, and the Externship Seminar. She is the recipient of Georgia State Law’s Patricia T. Morgan Award for Excellence in Scholarship (2023), Steven J. Kaminshine Award for Excellence in Service (2019), David J. Maleski Award for Teaching Excellence (2017), and the Black Law Student Association’s Bernadette Hartsfield Faculty Award (2024 and 2016).
Kerew’s scholarship focuses on topics related to professional identity formation and externship pedagogy. Kerew is a Fellow of the Holloran Center at the University of St. Thomas School of Law, Chair-Elect of the AALS Aging and the Law Section, and on the Executive Committee of the AALS Balance and Well-being in Legal Education Section. She is an active member of the AALS Clinical Legal Education Section’s Externships and Teaching Methodologies Committees and CLEA’s Advocacy and Externships Committees.
Prior to joining the faculty in 2005, Kerew worked as an associate at King & Spalding and as an assistant attorney general for the Georgia Attorney General’s Office.
Kelly Terry, Ben J. Altheimer Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Experiential Learning and Clinical Programs, William H. Bowen School of Law, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Kelly S. Terry is the associate dean for Experiential Learning & Clinical Programs, 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 co-director of 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, and Gonzaga. 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 course for first-year students called Professionalism and the Work of Lawyers.
Her expertise includes legal education, externship pedagogy, assessment, and access to justice. She is a co-editor of Experiential Education in the Law School Curriculum (Carolina Academic Press 2017) and has published articles in the Clinical Law Review, the Journal of Legal Education, and the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy. Dean Terry has three publications forthcoming: Externship Pedagogy and Practice (co-authored with Professors Cynthia Batt, Gillian Dutton, D’lorah Hughes, Kendall Kerew, & Cynthia Wilson); From Student to Lawyer: An Integrated Approach to Professional Identity Formation in Law School (co-authored with Professors Kendall Kerew & Jerome Organ); and Assessment: A Comprehensive Guidebook for Law Schools (co-authored with Professors Gerald Hess, Emily Grant, & Sandra Simpson).
