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Ellen S. Pryor, Associate Provost
Ellen S. Pryor has responsibility for Educational Programs, directing the
Hunt Leadership Scholars,
and student academic petitions and appeals. To see the process for student
academic petition and appeals,
click here.
Ellen also is the Homer R. Mitchell Professor of Law at SMU’s Dedman School of Law. She graduated from Rice University in 1978 and from the University of Texas School of Law in 1982. At the University of Texas School of Law, Professor Pryor served as Editor-in-Chief of the Texas Law Review, and was also a member of the honor societies Chancellors and Order of the Coif. Following graduation, she served as judicial clerk for a federal appeals court Judge, the Honorable Carl McGowan of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Her legal scholarship and teaching focus on tort and compensation law, disability, insurance, and professional responsibility. She is the co-author of The Law of Torts (4th edition West 2004), and Advanced Torts (West 2004). She is an advisor and coordinating reporter for the American Law Institute’s Restatement (Third) of Torts. She has written numerous articles about the law of disability, compensation, professional responsibility, mental disability, and tort law. Her writings have appeared in, among other journals, the Harvard Law Review, Virginia Law Review, Journal of Legal Studies, Texas Law Review, George Washington Law Review, University of Chicago Press, Georgetown Law Review, and Tulane Law Review.
In May 2005, she received one of four annual Piper Professor awards, given by the Minnie Piper foundation to professors at colleges or universities in Texas. In 2002, she received the law school’s annual Don Smart award for teaching excellence. In 2001, she was named one of four inaugural members of SMU’s Academy of Distinguished Teachers. In 2000, she received SMU’s United Methodist Award for Scholar-Teacher of the Year.
She received Dallas Bar Association’s Pro Bono Award of the Year in 1985, and the State Bar of Texas’ Frank Scurlock Award for Delivery of Legal Services to the Poor in 1986. She is also a recipient, in 2006, of the ABA’s Robert B. MacKay Law Professor Award, given by the Tort and Insurance Practice Section of the ABA.
Contact Information
| Physical Address: | Phone: |
| Southern Methodist University | Rose Torres, Coordinator |
| Perkins Administration Building | (214) 768-4984 |
| 6425 Boaz Lane, Suite 220 | |
| Dallas, Texas 75205 | Ellen Pryor, Associate Provost |
| (214) 768-2580 |
| Mailing Address: |
| Southern Methodist University |
| Office of the Provost |
| P.O. Box 750221 |
| Dallas, Texas 75275-0221 |
