School of Law Welcomes Bousquet as New Faculty Member

University Relations

Daniel Bousquet has joined the U of A School of Law as an assistant professor beginning with the fall 2024 classes. His teaching expertise includes family law, professional responsibility and evidence.

"We are excited to welcome Professor Bousquet to the faculty during the law school's centennial year," said Dean Cynthia Nance. "His wealth of knowledge and hands-on experience during his legal career and past teaching roles will be very beneficial to the law school and our students."

Bousquet joins the faculty from the George Washington University Law School, where he was a visiting associate professor and the Friedman Fellow. His prior experience also includes working as an attorney at leading law firms in Washington, D.C., and as a law clerk for the Hon. William J. Kayatta Jr. at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Portland, Maine.

Bousquet holds a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School, where he was the student director of the Sol & Lillian Goldman Advocacy for Children and Youth Clinic, a research assistant and senior editor for the Yale Journal on Regulation and the Yale Journal of Health, Law, Policy and Ethics. He received a bachelor's degree, summa cum laude, in philosophy from Bates College.

His publications and presentations have examined domestic relations, supporting teaching fellows and clinicians, and vaccination consent for children and dependent adults.

About the University of Arkansas School of Law: The law school offers a competitive J.D. and is home to the nation's first LL.M. program in agriculture and food law. Led by nationally recognized faculty, the school offers students pro bono work, live client clinics, public service fellowships, competitions, and much more. Students also benefit from our location in one of the fastest growing, most livable, and economically vibrant regions in the U.S., and from our corporate externship partnerships with Fortune 500 companies. Our alumni have gone on to become judges, senators, and governors, and we serve communities throughout our state and nation through programs such as the Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative. Our longstanding commitment to diversity and inclusion is exemplified by the Six Pioneers, the first Black students to attend law school in the South. Follow us at @uarklaw.