Professor Alberto Gonzales has been named the new dean of Belmont University College of Law, effective June 1. He served as the first George W. Bush Administration Attorney General. He was also a Justice on the Texas Supreme Court. He is currently the school's Doyle Rogers Distinguished Chair of Law.
Gonzales received his JD from Harvard. Although I haven't read any of his work, he is certainly an active scholar.
His name is Gonzales.
Posted by: John Steele | April 04, 2014 at 10:43 AM
Ghastly man becomes dean of ghastly law school.
Posted by: Lois Turner | April 04, 2014 at 01:55 PM
Out of curiosity, what makes Belmont a "ghastly" law school?
There was a similar comment over on TaxProf blog with no explanation offered there either.
Posted by: ATLprof | April 04, 2014 at 05:40 PM
Belmont has already bested almost half the ABA schools in median LSAT. We will have to wait to see what they do on the bar exam and in job placement. My guess is that they are far from the bottom of law schools even though they have only been around for less than three years. It is true that the worst law schools are very bad and some should be shut down, but there are at least 50 schools that are significantly worse places than Belmont.
Posted by: Beth Jones | April 06, 2014 at 10:37 AM
Will the Dean be teaching a course on professionalism and ethics? Perhaps he and Holder can team teach a course on an attorney's professional obligations while testifying before Congress under oath...
Posted by: TS | April 07, 2014 at 09:40 AM