Stephen R. McAllister

Stephen McAllister joined KU's School of Law in 1993 and was dean from 2000 to 2005. Prior to KU, he clerked for Justices Byron White and Clarence Thomas at the Supreme Court of the United States and Judge Richard Posner at the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He also was in private practice in the Washington, D.C., office of the Los Angeles law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Prof. McAllister served as the U.S. Attorney for the District of Kansas from 2018 to 2021, as the first and only Solicitor of the State of Kansas from 1999 to 2003, and as the Solicitor General of Kansas (2007 - 2018), assisting the attorney general's office with constitutional litigation, including briefing, arguing and winning for Kansas the case of Kansas v. Ventris (U.S. 2009). In November 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court appointed Prof. McAllister to defend the judgment in Bond v. United States, No. 09-1227. In that capacity, McAllister filed a merits brief, and he presented oral argument to the court on Feb. 22, 2011. In 2013, Prof. McAllister assisted the Kansas Attorney General in Kansas v. Cheever​ (U.S. 2013), which Kansas won 9-0 in the Supreme Court.

Prof. McAllister received the Dean Frederick J. Moreau Award in 1997, a W.T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence in 1999, and the Steeples Award for Service to Kansans in 2008.

Learn more about Stephen McAllister on the School of Law website.