Antony G. Page is a Canadian-American attorney, scholar, and former diplomat who has served as the third

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of the

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from 2018 to 2025.

Education and diplomatic career

Born in

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to British parents,Patty Roberts
Conversation with Antony Page
''EdUp Legal Podcast with Host Patty Roberts'' (August 10, 2022)Marilyn Odendahl,
IU McKinney vice dean heads for Florida International Law
, ''Indiana Lawyer'' (May–June 2018), p. 3, 12. Page received a

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degree from

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in 1988, followed by an

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from

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in 1990. He was for several years a diplomat in the

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, in the

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. He later described how he began as a very junior diplomat, whose job duties included "carrying ministers' luggage around and making sure it got to the right place", but eventually served as "second secretary and vice consul in Thailand, Laos and Burma", and "as trade commissioner in the Asia-Pacific South Division, and as assistant trade commissioner in the European Union Trade and Economic Relations Division". He received his J.D., with distinction, from

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in 1997, where he was in the

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. Page was a

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for Judge Harry Lindley Hupp of the

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, and for Judge

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of the

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. Page then worked for the law firm of

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for several years, until his preference for academic research led him to pursue teaching.

Academic career

In 2003, Page became a professor of law at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis, becoming vice dean of that institution in 2012 and serving in that capacity for six years. Page's 2005 law review article on

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s was cited by Justice

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in a case decided the same year, '' Miller-El v. Dretke''. In 2014, Page criticized the inadequate internal controls of

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following an incident in which that institution was defrauded of $8.1 million that had been invested in a recently formed Florida LLC.Seth Slabaugh,
Why Ball State kept silent
, ''The Muncie Star Press'' (June 12, 2014), p
A1
A2. In 2015, he criticized as "suspicious" a deal allowing a large political donor to develop land on

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that had been set aside for preservation. Page has written on the 1986 United States Supreme Court decision on jury selection in ''

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'', and in 2019, Page praised the

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for a decision criticizing the "systematic removal of minority jurors". Page was hired as the third Dean of the

, beginning as of July 30, 2018, and following Leonard Strickman and

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in that office. In August 2020, Page donated $200,000 to the law school to establish a scholarship for law students who are "among the first generation in their families to attend college", citing as a motivation the impact of having himself received a scholarship while studying at Stanford. In March 2022, Page was one of a number of signatories from academia of a letter encouraging members of the

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to confirm

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to the

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. Under Page's deanship, the Florida International University College of Law surpassed its crosstown private rival, the

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, in national rankings for the first time in their history.Jimena Tavel,
Por primera vez la Facultad de Derecho de FIU supera a la de UM en clasficacion national
(''For the first time, the FIU School of Law surpasses that of UM in national ranking''), ''

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'' (May 14, 2023), p. A8. Page stepped down as dean in May 2025, and returned to teaching as a professor of law.

Publications

* Antony Page,
Preserving the Social Enterprise's Mission
, in Benjamin Means and Joseph W. Yockey, eds., ''The Cambridge Handbook of Social Enterprise Law'' (Cambridge University Press, 2019) * Antony Page and Robert Katz,
Is Social Enterprise the New Corporate Social Responsibility?
, in Judd F. Sneirson and Nancy E. Shurtz, eds., ''Sustainability & Business Law'' (Carolina Academic Press, 2017) * Antony Page,
Revisiting the Causes of the Financial Crisis
', 47 Ind. L. Rev. 37 (2014) * Antony Page,
New Corporate Forms and Green Business
', 37 Wm. & Mary Envtl. L. & Pol'y Rev. 347 (2012-2013) * Antony Page and Robert Katz,
The Truth About Ben and Jerry's
', Stanford Social Innovation Review, Vol. 10, No. 4, Fall 2012 * Antony Page and Robert Katz,
Freezing out Ben & Jerry: Corporate Law and the Sale of a Social Enterprise Icon
', 35 Vt. L. Rev. 211 (2010-2011) * Antony Page,
Unconscious Bias and the Limits of Director Independence
', 2009 U. Ill. L. Rev. 237 (2009) * Antony Page,
Batson's Blind-Spot: Unconscious Stereotyping and the Peremptory Challenge
', 85 B.U. L. Rev. 155 (2005)

References

External links

* Alexandra Pecharich
Five questions with dean of FIU Law
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