Associate Professor of Law

B.A., J.D., LL.M.

Email: ckelley@uark.edu
Phone: (479) 575-3230
 

Christopher Kelley teaches in the areas of governmental regulation, environmental law, and international issues in the LL.M. Program in Agricultural Law. In the J.D. program, Professor Kelley teaches Administrative Law and a Rule of Law seminar.

In 2005, Professor Kelley taught as a Fulbright Scholar at the Kharkiv National Agrarian University and the Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs in Kharkiv, Ukraine. He continues to lecture in Ukraine and has traveled to Ukraine more than a dozen times since 2005. He also has accompanied other law professors to Ukraine, including Professor Don Judges.

Professor Kelley is assisting in the development of cooperative rule of law distance learning program between the School of Law and the Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs. He also has arranged for interactive audiovisual conferences between the School of Law and law students in Kyiv who through the United States Embassy in Ukraine and is working on other distance education projects in Ukraine.

As Of Counsel to the Inyurpolis law firm in Kharkiv, Professor Kelley assists the firm with its international practice. He also teaches in the firm's "Summer School" for its new attorneys and for law students at the Kharkiv National Law Academy. In June 2008, he represented the firm at the 3rd Annual Commonwealth of Independent States Local Counsel Forum in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Professor Kelley is a Co-Chair of the Russia/Eurasia Committee of the American Bar Association Section of International Law. He participated in the World Justice Forum in Vienna, Austria, in July 2008. The World Justice Forum is part of the World Justice Project, which is international co-sponsored in part by the American Bar Association and the International Bar Association.

Before joining the University of Arkansas School of Law faculty in 1998, Professor Kelley practiced law in both the public and private sectors, including with Arent Fox in Washington D.C., and Linquist & Vennum P.L.L.P. in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He began his legal career in the Solicitor General's Office of the Minnesota Attorney General. He also has been a public defender, a legal services attorney, and staff counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi.

Professor Kelley also has taught at the William Mitchell College of Law, the University of North Dakota School of Law, the University of South Dakota School of Law, and in the Drake University School of Law Summer Agricultural Law Institute. He received his B.A. from Louisiana State University, his J.D., with honors, from the Howard University School of Law, and his LL.M. in Agricultural Law from the University of Arkansas School of Law. He is admitted to the practice of law in Arkansas, Georgia, Minnesota, North Dakota, and the District of Colombia.