Debra Moss Vollweiler

Debra Moss Vollweiler is the Director of Accreditation and Assessment and a tenured Professor of Law at Nova Southeastern University, Shepard Broad College of Law, in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. She is a graduate of Boston College Law School and Tufts University and began her work in legal education by establishing the Public Interest Law Center at the NSU College of Law.

Her teaching focus is on Contracts, UCC: Sales, UCC: Secured Transactions, and Corporations. She has published more than thirty works on professionalism, teaching, learning, and attorney discipline. Her latest work focuses on the orders of the Florida Supreme Court regarding attorney professionalism. She is also the co-author of "Legal Education at a Crossroads," a book examining curricular change in law schools nationwide and advocating for data based curriculum development.

In 2025, Professor Moss Vollweiler received the Nova Southeastern University Provost's Research and Scholarship Award for the Humanities. In 2017, she received NSU’s Distinguished Professor of the Year award for the College of Law and the Florida Bar’s statewide Law Faculty Professionalism award. She was named "Professor of the Year" by the College of Law Student Bar Association in 2007, 2014, and 2015. In both 2019 and 2021, she was the NSU College of Law Executive of the Year.

Professor Moss Vollweiler is the Chair of the AALS New Law Professors Section and serves on the AALS Membership Committee.  She serves as a site inspector for the ABA accreditation process and has spoken nationally on teaching, learning, and professionalism at the AALS, Southeastern Association of Law Schools, and ABA Conferences, among others.

Prior to working for the NSU Shepard Broad College of Law, Professor Vollweiler was in small and medium firm practice in Florida. 

Areas of Interest

• Attorney Discipline
• Commercial Lending
• Contracts
• Critical Reading
• Professionalism
• Uniform Commercial Code

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