Subject: News About Associate Deans
From: Campus Broadcast <[email-masked]>
To: Campus Broadcast <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 15:00:29 +0000

Dear Colleagues,

As we begin to prepare for the next academic year, I am writing to share with you news about our associate deans.

With the end of the academic year, Peter Byrne, who has served as Associate Dean for J.D. Programs since 2012, returns to the faculty.  I would like to express my deep gratitude to Peter. No brief summary of his achievements can do him justice, but in his tenure, he helped launched a series of innovative and important new programs, like the financial literacy boot camp, the upper level writing labs, the LLM in environmental law, and the revised week one curriculum. He was an excellent administrator, working with faculty, students, and our superb administrators with grace and dedication to our academic mission, and his judgment and wisdom are unparalleled. It has been a privilege to work with Peter.

 Greg Klass is stepping down as Associate Dean for Research, after holding this office since 2011. Greg's dedication to our scholarly mission is profound, and he has done a superb job helping us hire an extraordinary group of new faculty, working with our untenured faculty in launching their careers as legal academics, running our named lectures and annual faculty retreats, assisting our fellows, developing a revised web presence that will soon be launched and that will highlight our scholarship, and, most fundamentally, thinking through how to strengthen our already impressive scholarly focus. It has been a true pleasure to work with him, and I thank him for his dedication and wonderful contributions.

 As Peter and Greg conclude their service as Associate Deans, I am pleased to welcome their successors. Naomi Mezey has become Associate Dean for J.D. Programs and Josh Teitelbaum has become Associate Dean for Research. I have greatly enjoyed working with both Naomi and Josh in their first days on the job, and I look forward to working with both of them in the years ahead in these new roles, and I know you will, as well.

Finally, I have asked Jane Aiken to become Vice Dean, as well as continuing to serve as Associate Dean for Clinical Education, Experiential Learning,  and Public Service. The creation of the post of Vice  Dean will allow me to give Jane additional responsibilities that fall outside of the areas of clinics, public service, and experiential education. In particular, I will be asking her to take on initiatives that grow out of the work of our long range planning committee, which she and Mitt Regan chaired, and a number of university initiatives. Jane's new position won't alter the structure of the dean's office, and each of the Associate Deans will continue to report directly to me.

I would like to close by thanking Peter and Greg again for their wonderful service and by thanking Naomi, Josh, and Jane for taking on their new responsibilities.

Best,

Bill