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Alfred Mathewson

Alfred Dennis Mathewson is an Emeritus Professor of Law and former Co-Dean of the University of New Mexico School of Law. He joined the faculty in 1983 after practicing corporate law in Denver, Colorado.

He earned his Bachelor of Business Administration from Howard University in 1975 and his Juris Doctor from Yale University in 1978.

Throughout his academic career, Professor Mathewson held several leadership roles. From 1997 to 2002, he served as Associate Dean of Academic Affairs. From 2009 to 2014, he was the Acting and Interim Director of the UNM Africana Studies Program.

He has primarily taught courses in business and sports law and has published extensively in both areas. He is nationally recognized for his scholarship on sports law and the application of Title IX to African American female athletes. His expertise has led him to speak at law schools across the country, including Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Wake Forest, West Virginia, and Yale.

His publications include Sports Law: A Modern Anthology (1999) (with Timothy Davis and Kenneth Shropshire), as well as numerous influential law review articles on sports law, gender equity, and intercollegiate athletics. His article on Major League Baseball’s monopoly power and the Negro Leagues is listed in the Harvard Guide to African American History.

Professor Mathewson has been an active member of the legal profession. He is a member of the American Bar Association and the American Law Institute, and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He has served as president of the New Mexico Black Lawyers Association and the Sam Cary Bar Association in Denver. He is also a member and past chair of the Section on Law and Sports of the American Association of Law Schools.

In 2009, he was named Business Lawyer of the Year by the New Mexico State Bar for his work developing the UNM School of Law’s Business and Tax Law Clinic.

Beyond scholarship and teaching, Dean Mathewson has long viewed his talents as community resources. In 2014, he organized law students to present on community input processes related to the Department of Justice settlement agreement with the City of Albuquerque concerning police use-of-force reforms. He later assembled a team of lawyers to file an amicus brief on behalf of community organizations during the federal court fairness hearing.

Since retiring from the full-time faculty, Professor Mathewson has remained active in legal education and community engagement.

Peter Johnson

Peter Johnson, J.D., M.B.A., is a federal criminal trial attorney, teacher and advocate. He is a Lecturer in Law at University of California (UCLA) School of Law and the University of Southern California (USC) Gould School of Law.
Prior to opening his own law firm in Southern California, he served as an Assistant Federal Public Defender in Baltimore, Maryland, and a Deputy Federal Public Defender in Los Angeles, California. He also worked as a litigation associate in a mid-sized law firm in Washington, D.C.
Peter graduated from the University of Maryland School or Law, Order of Barristers, where he was a member of the National Trial Team and the Jessup International Moot Court Team. He also earned his Master of Business Administration from IE Business School in Madrid, Spain, where he lived and taught graduate and undergraduate courses in principles of finance, international corporate finance, business economics, operations management and European business law.
After law school, Peter served as a law clerk to the Honorable Robert M. Bell, Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals of Maryland, and law clerk to the Honorable Alexander Williams, United States District Judge. With more twenty years of experience in public service and private practice, Peter has litigated hundreds of federal criminal cases, including jury trials, bench trials, evidentiary hearings and appeals. Peter is licensed to practice law in California and Maryland.

Ronald Wheeler

Associate Dean Ronald Wheeler, a recognized leader in the area of legal research instruction, has served in various law library management roles at law schools across the country, including Suffolk University Law School, the University of San Francisco School of Law, Georgia State University College of Law, and the University of New Mexico School of Law. Wheeler has taught legal research in various contexts including in stand-alone first-year legal research courses, upper division courses, online, and in study abroad programs in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Linz, Austria. Wheeler also taught a course on US Legal Research to Chinese law students at the East China University of Political Science and Law in Shanghai, China during the summer of 2012. Wheeler has also taught a research and writing seminar called Queer Legal Scholarship, and he has taught Critical Race Theory as a seminar course. His newest course is a seminar called Critical Legal Research applying critical theory to the legal research process.

Associate Dean Wheeler’s scholarship focusing on legal research techniques, legal research instruction, and algorithm-driven search engines has gained him national attention, and he is regularly called upon to speak about innovations in teaching and other legal research-related topics. He is also a well-known author and speaker about issues related to law library management and the role of the law library in legal education. Wheeler penned Diversity Dialogues, a regular feature in Law Library Journal which aimed to engage scholarly conversation on issues of diversity and inclusion in librarianship and the legal profession. In 2014, Wheeler was named to the Lawyers of Color “50 under 50” list of minority attorneys making an impact on legal education. In 2016-17, Wheeler served as the first Black male president of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL). He also chaired the AALL Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity Awareness (IDEA) Special Committee for two years. The Special Committee, charged with reviewing the organization, querying its members, and compiling recommendations aimed at making AALL more inclusive, diverse, and accessible, saw several of its recommendations adopted by the AALL Executive Board. Dean Wheeler serves as Chair of the Finance Committee on the Board of Directors of the Law Library Microform Consortium (LLMC) and as a member of the Board of Directors of the New England Law Library Consortium. 

Associate Dean Wheeler has become passionate about the emerging field of Critical Legal Research which examines the ways that contemporary legal research processes, both print, and electronic, sustain the status quo, entrench bias, perpetuate oppressive forces, and prevent the discoverability of new and less hegemonic ideas. Wheeler has developed a new specialized research and writing seminar called Critical Legal Research modeled after a similar course taught by Professor Nicholas Mignanelli at Yale Law School.

Associate Dean Wheeler was appointed to serve as the Interim Associate Dean for Equity, Justice, & Engagement for the School of Law during FY 2022-23. He now serves as the Associate Dean for Law Libraries at Boston University School of Law’s Fineman & Pappas Law Libraries.

Kelley Johnson

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Rawle Andrews, Jr.

Rawle Andrews, Jr., Esq. is the Executive Director of the American Psychiatric Association Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the American Psychiatric Association (APA). Founded in 1844, the APA is the oldest medical association in the United States and the largest psychiatric association in the world. He also serves as the two-term President of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia.

Before joining the APA Foundation, Mr. Andrews spent more than 15 years at AARP, where he held several progressively responsible management positions. Most recently, he served as a Vice President and a member of AARP’s national leadership team. Prior to AARP, he practiced law for 16 years.

Mr. Andrews has an extensive record of civic and professional leadership. He is a member of the Thurgood Marshall Center Trust Board of Directors and Rotary International, District 7620. He previously served as a Commissioner of the American Bar Association Commission on Law and Aging, the D.C. Access to Justice Commission, and currently serves on the D.C. Superior Court Civil Rules Advisory Committee. He is also the National Chairman of the Public Policy Committee of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.

In addition, Mr. Andrews has served as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and the Howard University School of Law.

His honors and recognitions include:

Mr. Andrews earned his Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the Howard University School of Law, where he was a member of the Howard Law Journal. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Texas Southern University and completed executive leadership education at the Georgetown University McDonough School of Business.