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Professor alfred brophy discusses president trump s stance on the removal of confederate statues
Alfred L. Brophy is an American legal scholar. He holds the Paul and Charlene Jones Chair in law at the University of Alabama.
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- Professor alfred brophy discusses president trump s stance on the removal of confederate statues
- Early life
- Career
- Works
- References
Early life
Brophy was born in Champaign, Illinois. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a bachelor of arts degree. He earned a J.D. from Columbia University, where he was an editor of the Columbia Law Review, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he held a Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fellowship.
Career
Brophy was a law clerk to John Butzner of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and practiced law with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in New York.
He taught at the University of North Carolina School of Law from 2008 to 2017, where he became the Judge John J. Parker Distinguished Professor of Law. Since summer 2017, he has held the Paul and Charlene Jones Chair in law at the University of Alabama.
Brophy is the author of several books, co-author of two casebooks, and co-editor of three other volumes. Since 2016 he has been the co-editor of the American Journal of Legal History.
In August 2017, in the wake of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Brophy argued that Confederate monuments should remain, as "removal facilitates forgetting." Though at certain points he has supported renaming of campus buildings and also removal of some monuments, he is generally against removal of monuments and renaming. Instead, he has argued for counter-monuments and for more contextualization of monuments.