Gary Myers

Gary Myers is the Earl F. Nelson Professor of Law at the University of Missouri School of Law in Columbia.  He also served a term as the sixteenth dean at the School of Law from 2012 to 2016.  Before coming to Missouri. Myers was a long-time member of the faculty at the University of Mississippi School of Law.  Myers received his juris doctor from Duke University School of Law and holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from New York University. He also earned an MA in economics from the Duke University Graduate School. After graduation, he served as a law clerk for Judge Gerald Tjoflat of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Jacksonville, Fla. He also practiced complex commercial litigation with a large Atlanta law firm before becoming a law professor.  Myers is the author or coauthor of a series of five books, as well as numerous law review articles, on intellectual property and antitrust law.