The University of California - Berkeley School of Law announced today that its new dean will be Sujit Choudhry. He holds an LLB from the University of Toronto and a BA in Law from University College, Oxford. He was a Rhodes Scholar.
Choudhry is currently a professor at NYU Law. Before coming to NYU, he was a professor and associate dean at Toronto Law.
Congratulations Sujit! He has worked hard for this honor and I am sure he serve UC Berkeley well.
Posted by: Jack | May 05, 2014 at 09:15 PM
Sure he is smart, but a US law dean without a JD?
Posted by: Terri S | May 06, 2014 at 09:26 AM
A Canadian LLB is the same thing as a JD (i.e. people have done undergrad work before entering law school). Almost all, if not all, Canadian law schools have now renamed their degrees JDs.
Posted by: Canuck | May 06, 2014 at 12:47 PM
He has an American law degree (an LLM from Harvard) and he's taught at a US law school, of course.
Posted by: Don Anon | May 06, 2014 at 07:41 PM
Hate to break it to Terri S, but no one thinks an American law degree is required to be a Dean. Also, Canada is a common law country. So is the US. Did you know that?
Posted by: anon400 | May 07, 2014 at 09:29 AM