Gary Friedlander, TransUnion Senior VP, to lead UIC Law IP Program

May 16, 2022

UIC LAW — Effective July 1, Gary Friedlander (JD 1987), Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel – International with TransUnion, will assume leadership of UIC Law’s Center for Intellectual Property, Information & Technology Law. The IP Center has been a leader in intellectual property legal education since its inception in 1940.

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University of Iowa Law to add business and tax law scholar Diane Lourdes Dick to the faculty this fall

May 16, 2022

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COLLEGE OF LAW — The University of Iowa College of Law is pleased to announce Professor Diane Lourdes Dick will join the Iowa Law faculty as a professor this fall. Professor Dick’s teaching and scholarship focuses on business and tax law with an emphasis on commercial finance, business bankruptcy and out-of-court restructuring, and

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Hofstra Law adds professors Samantha Kubek, Evelyn Malavé, Alex Sinha, and Jeremy Weintraub to the faculty

May 16, 2022

HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY LAW NEWS  — The Maurice A. Deane School of Law will welcome four new professors this summer to the full-time faculty: Samantha Kubek, assistant clinical professor of law; Evelyn Malavé, associate professor of law; Alex Sinha, associate professor of law; and Jeremy Weintraub, assistant professor of legal writing.

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Cornell Law professor Odette Lienau named dean of Boston College Law

May 12, 2022

BOSTON COLLEGE NEWS — Boston College has named Odette Lienau, professor of law and former associate dean for faculty research and intellectual life at Cornell University Law School, as the inaugural Marianne D. Short, Esq., Dean at Boston College Law School, effective January 2023.

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Troy McKenzie named dean of NYU Law

May 10, 2022

REUTERS — New York University School of Law has found its next dean right on campus. Longtime professor Troy McKenzie will assume the deanship May 31 when current dean Trevor Morrison steps down, the school said Friday. McKenzie, an expert in bankruptcy, civil procedure and complex litigation, graduated from NYU Law in 2000 and began teaching there

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University of Missouri Law dean Lyrissa Lidsky to step down in July

May 3, 2022

COLUMBIA MISSOURIAN — The first woman to serve as dean of the MU School of Law is stepping down. Lyrissa Lidsky, who has served as dean of the 150-year-old law school since 2017, will be resigning effective July 4.  

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Brian Pappas named new dean of University of North Dakota Law

May 3, 2022

GRAND FORKS HERALD — Brian Pappas has been named as the new dean of the UND School of Law. Pappas was announced as the new law school dean on Monday, April 25, by UND Provost Eric Link, according to a UND press release.

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University of Arkansas Law adds Marissa A. Savells, Curtis Box II and Theresa Fette to business law advisory board

May 2, 2022

UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS — The U of A School of Law has named its newest members of the Business Law Advisory Board. Each of these new board members began their term in Spring 2022.

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University of Cincinnati Law to add assistant professors Ryan Thoreson and Kristie Bluett to the faculty

May 2, 2022

UC NEWS — This fall, Cincinnati Law will welcome legal scholar and anthropologist Ryan Thoreson as an Assistant Professor, and legal clinician Kristie Bluett as Assistant Professor of Clinical Law and Director of the Domestic Violence and Civil Protection Order Clinic.

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University of Minnesota Law adds labor and employment scholars Charlotte Garden and Matthew Bodie to the faculty

May 2, 2022

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA — Two recently hired faculty members will strengthen Minnesota Law’s nationally recognized expertise in labor & employment law. Professors Charlotte Garden and Matthew Bodie—both of whom have taught and written extensively on labor and employment issues—will join the Law School’s faculty this summer.

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