Nick Allard (1974)

Dean Nicholas W. “Nick” Allard joined Jacksonville University as the Randall C. Berg Jr. Founding Dean of the College of Law in 2022. Previously he served as Dean of Brooklyn Law School (2012 - 2018), and concurrently as President (2013-2018) and Professor of Law (2012-2020). For many years Nick held leadership positions as a partner in highly regarded global law firms. He has been recognized as a leading lawyer for his work in public policy and legal work with clients in the fields of privacy, telecommunications, advanced broadband networked communications, technology, health, energy, environmental law, compliance, and higher education.

Nick has been a member of the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Government Affairs, chaired its Communications Committee, and its Standing Committee on the Law Library of Congress.

Dean Allard also has held and holds prominent volunteer leadership positions at Princeton University, Oxford University, the Rhodes Scholarship Trust, Oxford’s Merton College, Cambridge University, Catholic University of America, and he is a long-time Trustee of the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. He received his JD from Yale Law School, and BA from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs. As a Rhodes Scholar he earned an MA in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics from Oxford University, where he is a Bodley Fellow of Merton College.

His legal education continued during clerkships with the late U.S. Chief District Judge Robert F. Peckham (N.D. CA) and the late U.S. Appellate Judge Patricia M. Wald (DC Cir.). His government and political experience include serving as senior staff for United States Senators Abraham Ribicoff (D CT), Chief of Staff for Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D NY), and Minority Counsel for Senator Ted Kennedy (D MA) on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Vice President Al Gore.

Recently Allard was recognized as a Barrier Breaker by the Jacksonville Women’s Lawyer Association, a Top Newsmaker by the Jacksonville Daily Record, received the George Parkin Service Award from the Rhodes Scholarship Trust, and was appointed as a senior advisor to Cambridge University’s Lucy Cavendish College in England.