The University of Florida Levin College of Law has announced that Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky will join the faculty as a Raymond & Miriam Ehrlich Chair in U.S. Constitutional Law.
Lidsky is returning to the Florida Law faculty, previously teaching there for over 23 years, after serving as dean of University of Missouri School of Law since 2017. She will begin her position in August.
Lidsky’s scholarship focuses on torts and First Amendment issues in the context of social media. She is a Reporter for Restatement of the Law Third, Torts: Defamation and Privacy.