Toni Miceli

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.