He held the Paul and Charlene Jones Chair in law at the University of Alabama from 2017 to 2019.
[citation needed] He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a bachelor of arts degree.
[1] Brophy was a law clerk to John Butzner of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and practiced law with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in New York.
[1] He has held the Paul and Charlene Jones Chair in law at the University of Alabama from 2017 to 2019.
[2] In August 2017, in the wake of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Brophy argued that Confederate monuments should remain, as "removal facilitates forgetting.