Anna Shavers

Interim Dean › College of Law

University of Nebraska-Lincoln • 254 LAW • Lincoln NE, 68583-0902 • 402.472-2194 • ashavers@unl.edu

Anna Shavers, Cline Williams Professor of Citizenship Law Chair, is interim dean of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Law. Her appointment is effective Aug. 17, 2009. Shavers had been associate dean since August 2008.

Shavers joined the UNL law faculty in 1989. She received her bachelor's degree from Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio, and her master's in business from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received her juris doctor (cum laude) from the University of Minnesota, where she was managing editor of the Minnesota Law Review. She was admitted to the Minnesota Bar in 1979 and the Nebraska Bar in 1989.

Shavers teaches administrative law, immigration law, gender issues and civil procedure. She is faculty co-adviser to the Multi-Cultural Legal Society and the Black Allied Law Students Association. She is a board member of the Midwestern People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference Inc.; liaison for the American Bar Association Administrative Law Section to the ABA Commission on Immigration; and publication chair of the ABA Administrative Law Section. She is a frequent national and international presenter on immigration and administrative law issues.

Shavers replaces Steven Willborn, dean since 2001, who has returned to the law faculty.

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