Dannye Holley
Dean
Thurgood Marshall School of Law of Texas Southern University
A Conversation About the Comments of Antonin Scalia
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
@TSULaw
Living Education eFocus News discussed the Comments of Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States with Dannye Holley, Dean Thurgood Marshall School of Law of Texas Southern University
Current Dean (2009-2015) and Professor Dannye Holley received his B.A. and J.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo; and his LL.M. from the University of California, Berkeley. This is his forty-third year of law school service, research, scholarship, and teaching. His most recent teaching assignments include Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Advanced Criminal Law and Procedure, and Evidence. He has served as a Faculty member for each of the first three Texas Center for the Judiciary's Evidence Summit for sitting Texas Judges, 2008, 2010, and 2012. His recent publications have focused on culpability standards and their evaluations by the federal and states’ supreme courts; the constitutionality of the criminalization of suspicion, and a national study of the variances in and policy wisdom of the evidence rule regulating the admission of convictions to impeach. His most recent publication (2015) focuses on the confrontation clause and the impact of the Crawford decision on state supreme courts, academics, and the practicing bar.
Dean Holley has also authored an article on teaching critical thinking and served as a Director of the law school's Center for Legal Pedagogy over a decade. The center focuses on providing a series of teaching and learning written Atips@ and conducting Teaching and Learning Workshops. The law school now has an integrated academic program centered on performance and assessment of accomplishment of its strategic academic goals. The program includes awarding scholarships to attract and retain students with potential to excel at the law school and providing academic support that begins prior to the students first day of class, and culminates with a series of coordinated courses focusing on performance on the bar exam. The school has also adopted an assessment program that measures the effectiveness of all aspects of its teaching and broader academic support program.
Current Dean (2009-2015) and Professor Dannye Holley received his B.A. and J.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo; and his LL.M. from the University of California, Berkeley. This is his forty-third year of law school service, research, scholarship, and teaching. His most recent teaching assignments include Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Advanced Criminal Law and Procedure, and Evidence. He has served as a Faculty member for each of the first three Texas Center for the Judiciary's Evidence Summit for sitting Texas Judges, 2008, 2010, and 2012. His recent publications have focused on culpability standards and their evaluations by the federal and states’ supreme courts; the constitutionality of the criminalization of suspicion, and a national study of the variances in and policy wisdom of the evidence rule regulating the admission of convictions to impeach. His most recent publication (2015) focuses on the confrontation clause and the impact of the Crawford decision on state supreme courts, academics, and the practicing bar.
Dean Holley has also authored an article on teaching critical thinking and served as a Director of the law school's Center for Legal Pedagogy over a decade. The center focuses on providing a series of teaching and learning written Atips@ and conducting Teaching and Learning Workshops. The law school now has an integrated academic program centered on performance and assessment of accomplishment of its strategic academic goals. The program includes awarding scholarships to attract and retain students with potential to excel at the law school and providing academic support that begins prior to the students first day of class, and culminates with a series of coordinated courses focusing on performance on the bar exam. The school has also adopted an assessment program that measures the effectiveness of all aspects of its teaching and broader academic support program.