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Deans & Legal Education
A Selected Bibliography
October 2008
Jon M. Garon, To Make a Difference: Dean as Producer , 39 U. T ol . L. R ev . 297 (2008).
The author writes “As I look at my fifth year as Dean of Hamline University School of Law, I am often struck by the dissonance between my professional life, as a lawyer and law professor, and my administrative life, as a dean within a small university…I am a product of my unique practice and academic experience. An entertainment lawyer by disposition, my field includes a broad array of intellectual property law and the arts or business organizations which exploit these rights. Perhaps blinded by my professional background, I believe that to make a difference, we must learn from these fields to make a difference for our schools, students, institutions, and communities. As I prepare for my last year as Dean of Hamline, this essay allows me the opportunity to reflect on how to make that difference for both our students and our institutions."
John D. Huston, From Admiral to Dean , 35 U. T ol . L. R ev . 101 (2003).
The author compares and contrasts his experiences as an admiral in the Navy with his experiences as dean of a law school.
Peter Keane, Interloper in the Fields of Academe , 35 U. T ol . L. R ev . 119 (2003).
A dean who came to his position from law practice, not academia, discusses how he found the role of dean to be much easier that he had been led to believe. He cites as the reason for so much widespread dissatisfaction with the dean's job the fact that most deans are former law professors, and being a law professor is terrible training for becoming a dean.
Gene R. Nichol, Jr., Ten Small Lessons from the Campaign Trail , 33 U. T ol . L. R ev . 131 (2001).
The author offers perspectives he has gained on the campaign trail to life in a law school.
W. Taylor Reveley, III , Cultural Musings of a Non-Traditional Dean , 31 U. T ol . L. Rev. 725 (2000).
The author became a law school dean after twenty-eight years in large law firms, with little experience in legal academia. He discusses the similarities and differences between law school deanship and law practice.
Aviam Soifer, Commentary , 31 Seattle Univ. L. R. 859 (2008).
The author reflects on what he has learned from his experience as an outside dean.
Willis P. Whichard, From a Warm Bench to a Hot Seat: The Transition from Judging to Deaning , 36 U. T ol . L. R ev . 221 (2004).
The author, who became dean at Campbell Law School after retiring from the North Carolina Supreme Court with twenty-eight years of state service, recounts the similarities and differences between being a dean and a judge.
Patricia D. White, Brief Reflections on the Enterprise , 31 U. T ol . L. R ev . 773 (2000).
The author discusses her experiences as a dean and concludes that deaning has more in common with being a lawyer than a law professor.
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