Toni Miceli
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Phone: 480-727-4239
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Beus Center for Law and Society 111 E Taylor Street Office 494 Phoenix, AZ 85004
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Mail code: 9520Campus: Dtphx
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Toni Miceli joined the ASU College of Law faculty in August 2024 and serves as the inaugural Director of the Bar Exam Success Program. Previously, she served on the faculty of Saint Louis University School of Law for 13 years, where she also served as the Director of Academic and Bar Exam Success.
Prof. Miceli is passionate about developing the next generation of attorneys through innovative and effective teaching methods, curriculum design, and assessment strategies. In creating robust academic and bar exam success programs, she focuses on creating self-regulated learners and developing the skills necessary for students to succeed in law school, on the bar exam, and in practice.
Prof. Miceli is a leading expert on the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE) and NextGen Bar Exam, as well as integrating bar exam and practice-ready skills throughout the curriculum. Her book, The Ultimate Guide to the UBE, has been widely adopted by law schools. In 2023, Prof. Miceli worked with Prof. Ann Scarlett (SLU Law) on creating a series of Civil Procedure Modules for the AccessLex Building Bar Skills Initiative, which provides Civil Procedure faculty with a series of five modules to integrate NextGen Bar skills into their courses and provide students with a hands-on opportunity to gain context for this challenging 1L subject. Most recently, Prof. Miceli was invited to work on a second generation module building team, this time creating a multi-subject module to integrate NextGen Bar skills into upper-level courses.
A 2023 recipient of the AccessLex Barriers and Interventions Grant, Prof. Miceli has a strong passion for academic excellence and intellectual inquiry that draws on her experience in cross-disciplinary research and collaboration. As a trained epidemiologist, Prof. Miceli is unfailingly logical, data driven, and an empirical thinker. She applies her data-driven and student-focused lens to all her programming and curricular development, working to create more access for diverse students to enter the legal academy and practice of law.
Her current scholarship focuses on empowering neurodivergent law students and breaking down adversarial state bar examiner accommodation policies so the legal profession can embrace, rather than lose, this talented pool of new talent. Prof. Miceli is a past President of the Association of Academic Support Educators and serves on several national legal working groups, advisory committees, and boards.
Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO
Master in Public Health, Epidemiology Concentration, 2019
Honors:
- Award for Academic Achievement in Public Health, May 2019
- Award for Highest GPA of MPH & MSPH Students, May 2019
- Alpha Sigma Nu Honor Society Member, St. Louis University Chapter, inducted Feb 2018
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, Sacramento, CA
Juris Doctor, with Distinction, 2006
Honors and Activities:
- Chief Managing Editor, 2005 – 2006
- Dean’s Scholarship for Academic Excellence, 2003 – 2006
- Dean’s Honor List, Spring 2006
- Witkin Awards for Highest Grade in Health Law, Elder Law and Social Policy, Immigration and Nationality Law
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Bachelor of Arts in Natural Sciences Public Health, 2003
Honors:
- Dean’s List, Spring 2001 and Fall 2002
Prof. Miceli's current scholarship focuses on empowering neurodivergent law students and breaking down adversarial state bar examiner accommodation policies so the legal profession can embrace, rather than lose, this talented pool of new talent. She also focuses on legal pedagogy and the NextGen Bar Exam.
Antonia Miceli, Teaching Dobbs as a Contemporary Case Study of Federalism in Action and an Introduction to the Cross-Disciplinary Nature of the Law, 17 St. louis U.L.J. Health L. & Pol’y (2024).
Melissa Hale, Antonia Miceli, Tania Shah, The Ultimate Guide to the Uniform Bar Examination Redesigned (Wolters Kluwer 2022).
Melissa Hale, Antonia Miceli, Tania Shah, The Ultimate Guide to the Uniform Bar Examination (Wolters Kluwer 2021).
Antonia Miceli, Transforming Your Physical Space into an Online Space, in Law Teaching Strategies for a New Era: Beyond the Physical Classroom (Tessa Dysart and Tracy Norton, eds., Carolina Academic Press, 2021).
Antonia Miceli, From a Distance: Providing Online Academic Support and Bar Exam Preparation to Law Students and Alumni During the COVID-19 Pandemic, 65 St. louis U.L.J. (2021).
Antonia Badway, Controlling the Export of Dual-Use Technology in a Post-9/11 World, 18 TRANSNAT’L LAW 431 (2005).
Joseph Fitzgerald and Antonia Badway, Government Secrecy in the Age of Information, BIODEFENSE QUARTERLY, Summer 2003, at 1, 1-2, 7.
Enhancements in ASP Award, Association of Academic Support Educators, May 2022
Legal Scholar Award, Missouri Lawyers Weekly Women’s Justice Awards, April 2017
Association of American Law Schools: Part-Time Division Programs Section (Chair); Academic Support Section (Member)
Association of Academic Support Educators: President (2019-2020); Past President (2020-2021); President Elect (2018-2019); National Conference Host (2018); Host School Representative (2017-2018); Host School Representative-Elect (2016-2017); Programming Committee (Co-Chair, 2016-2017 and 2023-2024); Mentoring Committee (Member, 2022-2023); Bar Exam and Advocacy Committee (Member, 2013-2016); Member Engagement Committee (Member, 2024 - Present)
Midwestern Consortium of Academic Support Professionals
Southwestern Consortium of Academic Support Professionals
State Bar of California
State Bar of Missouri
United States District Court, Eastern District of Missouri, St. Louis, MO
- Law Clerk for the Honorable Audrey G. Fleissig, June 2010 – July 2011
- Law Clerk for the Honorable Rodney W. Sippel, Aug 2006 – Aug 2008
Thompson Coburn LLP, St. Louis, MO
- Associate, Business Litigation, Oct 2008 – May 2010
United States Department of State, Office of War Crimes Issues, Washington, DC
- Legal Intern for Ambassador-at-Large Pierre-Richard Prosper, Summer 2005