Nicholas W Allard

Nick Allard (1974), Bodley Fellow and President of the Merton College Charitable Corporation (MC3), has been selected as the Founding Dean of the College of Law at Jacksonville University, Florida, USA.

Nick, who is currently senior counsel at Dentons, the largest law firm in the world with offices in more than 80 countries, came to Merton in 1974 as a Rhodes Scholar after graduating from Princeton. He took his MA in PPE in 1976, going on to study at Yale Law School and pursuing a career in law, public policy, and government relations. He is a former Dean and President of Brooklyn Law School, where he launched several initiatives designed to make legal education more affordable, accessible, and valuable.