Bob McCurley, was Director of the Alabama Law Institute from 1975 through 2011 and taught at the Law School for over 30 years. Since then he has been teaching courses in the Honors College at the University of Alabama and Cumberland School of Law. When the leadership of the legislature learned he was retiring from the Law Institute they ask him to coordinate the drafting of a new constitution for Alabama. For the past two years he has been assisting the Constitution Revision Commission in the revision of Alabama’s 1901 Constitution.

Bob has written eleven books on law and government. Active in civic affairs, Bob is Past International President of the Kiwanis International Foundation. Bob is married to Barbara and has a daughter, Reverend Leah McCurley.