Autherine Smith Scholl

Professor Autherine Smith Scholl has taught a host of courses concerning the law, justice, and human relations for the University of the District of Columbia. She has particular expertise in Alternative Dispute Resolution, Bankruptcy Law and Litigation, Mortgage Foreclosure Litigation, and Juvenile Justice. She is a graduate of the Temple Beasley School of Law and Talladega College and has served internships at the Pennsylvania Bureau of Consumer Protection and in the Office of the Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission.

For more than two decades, Professor Smith Scholl maintained an active litigation practice in the areas of bankruptcy law and consumer protection and housing litigation, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, including stints as a supervising attorney at Community Legal Services, and, then as a senior associate at a major Philadelphia Banking firm. Professor Smith Scholl has extensive experience as an arbitrator in the Philadelphia County Court Common Pleas’ Civil Trial Division, and, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. She is a certified mediator in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and in the Civil Division of the District of Columbia Superior Court in Washington, DC.

Professor Smith Scholl is a frequent continuing legal education lecturer on mediation and ethics issues and has taught courses in Bankruptcy Law and Commercial Litigation at the Rutgers University School of Law in Camden, New Jersey, and at the Widener University School of Law in Wilmington, DE. She is an active member of the Bars of the United States District Court for the Eastern and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania, the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, Washington, DC. Professor Smith Scholl was recently appointed to the New Jersey State Agricultural Mediation Panel.