Andrew Perlman

Andrew Perlman is the dean of Suffolk University Law School. In 2024, National Jurist named Dean Perlman as one of the top-20 most influential people in legal education.

Among other leadership roles, Dean Perlman has served as an Advisory Council member of the American Bar Association Task Force on the Law and Artificial Intelligence; the inaugural chair of the governing council of the ABA's Center for Innovation; the vice chair of the ABA Commission on the Future of Legal Services; and the chief reporter of the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20, which was responsible for updating the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct to reflect changes in technology and increased globalization.

Dean Perlman's scholarship has included numerous articles on professional responsibility and legal innovation that have appeared in some of the nation's leading law reviews. He also co-authored a civil procedure casebook, Civil Procedure: A Coursebook (with Professors Joseph W. Glannon and Peter Raven-Hansen) that has been adopted at more than 80 law schools.

Dean Perlman has served as a presenter or panelist at more than 100 academic, judicial, and other professional programs in more than 20 U.S. jurisdictions, three continents, and six countries.

Prior to entering academia, Andy clerked for a federal district court judge in Chicago and practiced as a litigator there. He is an honors graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School, and he received his LL.M from Columbia Law School.