Associate/Assistant Deans
Albert Matheny Biography
CLAS Associate Dean for Student Affairs
Albert R. Matheny, Professor (Ph.D., Political Science, University
of Minnesota, 1979; M.A., Political Science, University
of Tennessee, 1974;
B.S., Public Administration, University of Tennessee, 1972), specializes
in the areas of public law, regulatory policy, and judicial processes.
His research interests include regulatory politics, administrative law,
science and environmental policy, the legal change and judicial reform,
and criminal justice.
He has published in these areas in The
Journal of Politics, Law &
Society Review, Law & Policy, Policy
Studies Journal, and The
National Civic Review, as well as in several edited volumes. He and Professor
Bruce A. Williams, University of Illinois, have published a book, Democracy,
Dialogue, and Environmental Disputes: The Contested Languages of
Social Regulation (Yale University Press, 1995, paper 1996). The
book won the Lynton K Caldwell Prize for “The Best Book in Environmental
Politics and Policy, 1996,” awarded by the Science,
Technology, and Environmental Politics Section of the American Political
Science Association,
August 1996. His latest research examines the impact of recent judicial
selection patterns on administrative law doctrine in the federal courts
and explores grassroots mobilization in the environmental policy process.
Professor Matheny has taught courses on the administration of criminal
justice, public interest law, comparative legal development, administrative
law and regulatory politics, judicial policy making, civil liberties,
research methods (for senior honors students), and graduate seminars in
court management and the politics of federal and state regulation.
He received teaching and advising prizes from the College of Liberal Arts
and Sciences and from the university in 1990, 1991, 1994, 1995 and 1996.
In 1997, he received the Florida Blue Key Distinguished Faculty Award,
and, in 1999, the Morton Wolfson Faculty Award for Outstanding Service
to UF Students.
He has received grants from the National
Institute of Justice—U.S.
Department of Justice (to study plea bargaining), from the Joint
Center for Environmental and Urban Problems—Florida International and Florida
Atlantic Universities (to study hazardous waste regulation in Florida,
Ohio, and New Jersey), and the U.S. Department
of Education (to establish
the graduate Judicial Administration Program).
Porfessor Matheny has served as the Department’s Associate Chair,
Graduate Coordinator, and Undergraduate Coordinator in the past, and is
now Associate Dean for Student Affairs in the College of Liberal Arts
and Sciences and the Director of the Academic Advising Center.
Professor Matheny is married to Jane Elizabeth Adair, and they have a
son, Al, who is 16 years old.