Martin Pritikin, an experienced lawyer and educational innovator, is the dean of Purdue Global Law School.
In this role, Pritikin is responsible for providing academic leadership for Purdue Global Law School programs, faculty, and students, while advancing the school's mission to provide an affordable and accessible education for aspiring attorneys and others seeking to learn the law.
Since joining Purdue Global Law School (formerly Concord Law School) in 2016, he has led it in becoming one of the first online law schools to earn accreditation from the State Bar of California, winning the ABA's Brown Select Award for Legal Access, and spearheading a team that won the inaugural Leading Edge Prize for Innovation in Legal Education. Pritikin established and moderates the school's Distinguished Speaker Webinar Series, whose featured guests include a member of Congress, the former dean of Harvard Law School, and faculty from UCLA, USC, and Northwestern, among others. And under his leadership, its graduates bested the average of all ABA law school graduates for the first time in the law school's history.
Pritikin has taught and designed courses in Evidence, Trial Advocacy, Criminal Law, Wills and Trusts, and Advanced Litigation. Prior to becoming the dean of Purdue Global Law School, Pritikin spent a dozen years at a brick-and-mortar law school, where he won the law school's Teacher of the Year award (twice) and was the first to design and implement a hybrid online "flipped" classroom model. As an administrator, he founded and directed their Institute for Trial and Appellate Practice, and served as the school's associate dean for experiential learning, associate dean of the law school, and acting dean. As a scholar, his works have appeared in the Yale Law and Policy Journal, the Cardozo Law Review, the Wisconsin Law Review, the Colorado Law Review, and the Journal of Legal Education, among others.
Prior to entering academia full time, Pritikin was a litigator at Quinn Emanuel in Los Angeles, where his clients included Lockheed Martin, Fox Studios, and Viacom. He has maintained his connection to practice even while in academia, including as a volunteer at a prosecutor's office and as a consultant on a multiyear litigation against Lehman Brothers in bankruptcy court. Pritikin earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Southern California and his Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School, where he graduated magna cum laude and served on the Harvard Law Review.
Contact Info: martin.pritikin@purdueglobal.edu
