Howard Brill

Professor Howard Brill is the Vincent Foster Professor of Legal Ethics & Professional Responsibility at the University of Arkansas School of Law.

Howard’s teaching career began as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Nigeria, and in the ensuing decades he has taught at universities around the world. He teaches professional responsibility, remedies, civil procedure, and domestic relations, as well special topics courses on Baseball and the Law and Arkansas Constitutional Law. From September 2015 to December 2016, he served as Chief Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court. His opinions included language from Johnny Cash, William Butler Yeats, and Bob Dylan.

Howard speaks frequently on legal and law-related topics, including “Lessons in the Law from the Life and Music of Johnny Cash;” “The Razorbacks, the NCAA and the Law;” “Lawyers in the Movies of John Grisham;” “The Seven Deadly Sins (lawyer’s edition)”; and The Godfather. He also presided over the case of Arkansas v. Goldilocks, in which a second-grade class at Butterfield Elementary School put Goldilocks on trial for trespassing and other crimes.