Georgetown Law Center has announced the appointment of William Treanor as its new dean. Treanor joined the Fordham faculty in 1991 and became dean in 2002. In addition to being a highly successful academic administrator, he is a notable legal historian. Treanor is a double Yale grad and recently completed his Ph.D in history from Harvard. In 1998, he took a leave from Fordham and served as Deputy Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel during the last years of the Clinton administration. He's also a really nice guy.
As I noted over at Leiter's Law School Reports, this news is a double edged sword for Fordham. It's losing a very successful dean. But the fact that Georgetown chose to tap a Fordham professor suggests what many of us already believe: that Fordham is among the law school elite.
This is great news! Many, many congratulations to Georgetown and to Bill.
Posted by: Alfred Brophy | June 29, 2010 at 05:41 PM
Do qualifications get any more stellar than Treanor's?
Posted by: Joe | June 29, 2010 at 10:14 PM
You can also add that he is a great teacher, though he does not spend much time in the classroom anymore. I had a bunch of classes with him in law school, including first-year property. He's one of the best teachers I ever had, and the fact that I now teach and write on property is due in large part to how interesting he made that class.
Posted by: Ben Barros | June 30, 2010 at 09:39 AM