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G. Alexander Nunn

Associate Professor of Law

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Alex Nunn

Get to Know G. Alexander Nunn

Professor Alex Nunn's research focuses on evidence and proof, exploring how evidentiary rules and the allocation of decisionmaking authority in the courtroom affect verdict accuracy, efficiency, and legitimacy. 
 
His scholarship has been featured or is forthcoming in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Virginia Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Texas Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, Emory Law Journal, and the peer-reviewed International Journal of Evidence and Proof.
 
Professor Nunn currently serves as the co-host of Excited Utterance, a podcast focusing on scholarship in evidence and proof. He has also served as a member of the executive committee for the AALS evidence section and the programming committee for the Evidence Summer Workshop.
 
Before coming to Texas A&M, Professor Nunn clerked on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He holds a Ph.D. in Law from Yale University and is a graduate of Vanderbilt Law School, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Vanderbilt Law Review. 

Publications

Link to my publications.

Presentations

Presentations are listed on my CV.

Expertise

  • Evidence and proof
  • Exploring how evidentiary rules and the allocation of decisionmaking authority in the courtroom affect verdict accuracy, efficiency, and legitimacy.

Courses

Evidence

Academic Experience

  • Texas A&M University School of Law
       • Associate Professor of Law, 2024-present
  • University of Arkansas School of Law
       • Associate Professor of Law, 2023
       • Assistant Professor of Law, 2019-23
       • Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, 2018-19

Education

  • Ph.D., Law, Yale University (2021)
    • Dissertation: Essays on Decision-Making Authority in the Courtroom
      Advisor: Ian Ayres
  • J.D., Vanderbilt Law School (2016)
    • Vanderbilt Law Review, Editor in Chief
    • Order of the Coif
  • B.S. Finance, B.S. Accounting, University of Arkansas (2013), summa cum laude
    • Honors College Fellowship

Awards / Honors

  • Arkansas Alumni Association Faculty Distinguished Rising Teaching Achievement Award (university award) (2023)
  • Lewis E. Epley Jr. Professor of the Year Award for Excellence in Teaching (student elected) (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)
  • Finalist, Dr. John and Mrs. Lois Imhoff Award for Outstanding Teaching and Student Mentorship (university award) (2023)
  • Graduate Professional Student Congress Educator of the Month (2023) (university-wide student elected)
  • Student Bar Association Award for Most Influential Professor (2022) (student elected)
  • Student Bar Association Award for Most Influential 3L Professor (2022, 2023) (student elected)
  • Student Bar Association Award for Most Influential 2L Professor (2022) (student elected)

Other Professional Activities

  • Excited Utterance: The Evidence and Proof Podcast (www.excitedutterance.com)
    Co-Host, 2019-present
  • Evidence Summer Workshop (www.evidenceworkshop.com)
    Programming Committee, 2019-Present
  • The Unavailability Workshop (www.unavailabilityworkshop.com)
    Co-Organizer and Co-Moderator, 2020-present (over 20 events)
  • American Association of Law Schools
    Section on Evidence, Executive Committee, 2019-2023

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