Faculty
Janet Flaccus
Professor Emeritus
Professor Janet Flaccus earned her undergraduate degree from Wheaton College; her
J.D. from the University of California at Davis, summa cum laude; and her graduate
law degree from the University of Illinois. Flaccus joined the faculty at the University
of Arkansas School of Law in 1984 as assistant professor and in 1994 was promoted
to the rank of full-time professor. In doing so, she became the first female full-time
professor on the law faculty. Flaccus's academic interests included domestic relations
as well as commercial law, contracts, sales and leasing, bankruptcy, and negotiable
paper. Flaccus regularly taught Continuing Legal Education classes for attorneys and
was recognized as a "Best in CLE" presenter several times by the Arkansas Bar Association.
She also spent many years on the Charles and Nadine Baum Faculty Teaching Award Committee.
In 2018, she retired after 35 years of teaching and conducting research in an academic
setting.
Professor Flaccus passed away in Fayetteville at the age of 70 on March 3, 2020.