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University Professor of Law and Ethical Formation
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Daisy Hurst Floyd is University Professor of Law and Ethical Formation and served as Dean of the Law School from 2004 to 2010 and from 2014 to 2017. She came to Mercer in 2004, after serving on the faculties of the University of Georgia School of Law and Texas Tech University School of Law. Professor Floyd is admitted to the State Bars of Georgia and Texas and is an elected Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, the Lawyers Foundation of Georgia, and the Texas Bar Foundation.
Professor Floyd’s teaching and research interests include Ethics and Professionalism, Legal Education, Civil Procedure, Evidence, and Remedies. She has a special interest in the way in which higher education affects the ethical formation of lawyers. She is currently working on a book entitled The Lawyers We Need: The Professional Identity of The American Lawyer, and is a co-author, with Professors Pat Longan and Tim Floyd, of The Formation of Professional Identity: The Path From Student to Lawyer (West Publishing 2d ed. 2024).
Professor Floyd received both a B.A. and M.A. from Emory University and a J.D. from the University of Georgia School of Law, where she was Articles Editor of the Georgia Law Review.
