It's my great pleasure to announce that my friend and fellow property professor Ben Barros has just been named dean of the University of Toledo's law school. Ben is currently associate dean at Widener's Harrisburg campus, where he has taught for nearly a dozen years. Ben brings a host of experience in a lot of different settings to this position -- in addition to a clerkship with Judge Milton Pollack of the Southern District of New York and then seven years practice in New York with Debevoise & Plimpton and then Latham & Watkins, Ben has taught at Fordham and Catholic and he has been on the AALS' executive committee. His writing on property includes an edited volume on Hernando De Soto and Property in a Market Economy. (On a personal note I'd mention that volume has a couple of penetrating essays critiquing De Soto's legal history. The better of the two is by Greg Alexander.) Ben also has a new property casebook.
Congratulations, Ben, and to the University of Toledo!
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