Albert J. Farrah



Albert J. Farrah (1863 – June 29, 1944) was the founding law school dean at Stetson University and the University of Florida Levin College of Law's first dean when created in 1909. He then served as dean of the University of Alabama's law school where he served for three decades until shortly before his death.

He was born in Adrian, Michigan in 1863 and studied at Adrian College and then Cornell College in Iowa. He graduated from the University of Michigan's law school in 1900.

The newly built University of Alabama's Farrah Hall law building was dedicated to him in 1927.

He wrote Cases on the law of husband and wife.

He died in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on June 29, 1944.

In 2011, he was inducted into Stetson College of Law's Hall of Fame.