Robert Atkinson
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Position: Professor
Organization: School of Law, Florida State University
Location: Tallahassee, FL
Robert Atkinson is a member of the Governance and Fiduciary Responsibililty Work Group.
Robert E. Atkinson, Jr., professor at the Florida State University College of Law, is one of the country's leading scholars on legal professionalism and on the law of nonprofit organizations. He teaches property, professional responsibility, legal ethics, and law and literature, and has also taught taxation of nonprofit organizations. Recipient of the 2001 Professionalism Award from the Florida Supreme Court's Commission on Professionalism, Professor Atkinson served as a visiting professor at Cornell Law School in Spring 2002. Before entering law teaching, Professor Atkinson was associated with the firm of Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan in Washington, D.C., and clerked for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He earned his bachelor's degree at Washington and Lee University and his J.D. from Yale University.