Jennifer L. Rosato Perea takes mentoring seriously – so much so that she spends several hours every day advising students, faculty and staff at her school, Northern Illinois University College of Law. Continue reading
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Jocelyn Benson’s commitment to civic engagement and an open, honest American electoral process runs long and deep. The dean of Wayne State University Law School in Detroit entered the fray as an undergraduate at Wellesley College in Massachusetts when she founded the Women in American Political Activism conference and became the first student elected to serve in the Wellesley town governing body. Continue reading
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Prepping law students to be practice-ready when they graduate isn’t necessarily a matter of balancing practical experiences with traditional classroom instruction, in Peggy Maisel’s opinion. Instead, what works best is fusing the two strategies.
“A big piece is, ‘How do you integrate the two so that in every course, students are learning to be lawyers and to be real problem-solvers in whatever career they decide to embrace,’” said Maisel, who was recently appointed the associate dean for experiential education at Boston University School of Law. “Too often, people are thinking, ‘We’ve had this type of curriculum in law schools that has taught our students to think like lawyers and now we’re going to experiential, and that there’s something different.’” Continue reading
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Jeremy Paul knew shortly after starting Harvard Law School that he wanted to teach. He began doing so as soon as he graduated in 1981, holding positions that included professor in residence for the U.S. Department of Justice, and he was named dean of Northeastern University School of Law 31 years later. Continue reading
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Christopher Pietruszkiewicz, the dean of Stetson University College of Law, has spent much of his career at the intersection of education, business and law. He came to Stetson from LSU Law Center at Louisiana State University, where he was the J.Y. Sanders Professor of Law and where, as Vice Chancellor for Business and Financial Affairs, he was responsible for strategic planning, budgeting, financial planning and personnel matters. Before that he was a trial lawyer in the U.S. Justice Department’s Tax Division and an attorney-adviser in the U.S. Education Department.
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Legal education wasn’t Mark Brandon’s first career choice. After obtaining his juris doctorate from the University of Alabama School of Law in 1978, he planned to work as a lawyer.
But five years later, in private practice in Birmingham, he taught a class at his alma mater as an adjunct. The experience kindled an interest in academia, which took Brandon to the University of Michigan, where he earned a master’s degree in political science, then to Princeton University for a doctorate in politics. Continue reading
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When Pepperdine University’s School of Law needed a new dean in 2011, it found someone equal parts jurist and academic. Deanell Reece Tacha had served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit since 1986 and as Chief Judge from 2001 through 2007. She was a member of the Judicial Conference of the United States and in 2006, Chief Justice John Roberts named her to the Conference’s Executive Committee. Continue reading
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Mitchel L. Winick’s double-barreled title – president and dean, Monterey College of Law – neatly encapsulates both his responsibilities and the law school’s academic/work-world nature. A California state-accredited nonprofit, Monterey Law’s four-year evening program has historically served up an affordable legal education to working professionals. Even the faculty comprises practicing lawyers and judges. Winick regularly lauds them as bringing real-life experience and perspective to their classes. Continue reading
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Rachel Moran, dean of the U.C.L.A. School of Law, has been immersed in education policy, civil rights, race and the law from the start of her academic career. Continue reading
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Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Dean Craig Boise was a nontraditional student who made a habit of seeing and seizing opportunities – jumping, for example, from studying piano to a job in his Kansas City, Mo., hometown police department, and from a police academy where he learned about the law back to college (University of Missouri) and then into legal academia itself. Continue reading
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