University of Arizona

Faculty Member, College of Law

Associate Professor of Law and Affiliated Professor of Latin American Studies

University of Arizona College of Law

About

ANA MARIA MERICO is a native of Buenos Aires, Argentina.  She earned her B.A. with High Honors from the University of Cincinnati in 1992, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and first in her class, and her J.D., cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School in 1995.  Upon graduation, she clerked for the Honorable James L. Ryan, in the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.  She practiced law in Cincinnati, Ohio, at Frost & Jacobs, LLP, specializing in commercial litigation and federal courts practice.  She is an associate professor of law at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law.  She teaches Civil Procedure, Federal Courts, Comparative Law, and Civil Rights.  She has numerous publications, in English and Spanish.  Professor Merico has been honored as Professor of the Year for Excellence in Teaching three times since she began teaching, once at the University of Michigan Law School while she was a visiting professor there.  She has also received a university-wide award for leadership and service, and is a Juan Luis Tienda Distinguished Alumna award recipient. 

She was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in 2004 and taught at the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid.  She has taught in Argentina and Mexico, in addition to Spain.  She serves as faculty advisor for the Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA) and is the former Regional President for the National HNBA, and is the current president of Phi Beta Kappa Alpha of Arizona.  She has also served a five-year term as a Lawyer Representative to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference of the United States.

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