New York Law School has named Anthony W. Crowell, Counselor to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, as the 16th dean and president of the school.

Crowell replaces Richard Matasar, who had been dean and president since 2000, and left in January to take a position with New York University.

Crowell, who will join the faculty as a professor of law later in the Spring, graduated from American University’s Washington College of Law in 1997. He has taught a seminar on New York City law as an adjunct professor at New York Law School since 2003.

Hannah Buxbaum will take over as acting dean of the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, on Feb. 1. Buxbaum is currently executive associate dean for academic affairs and John E. Schiller chair in legal ethics. Her appointment follows the announcement Dec. 6 that the law school's current dean, Lauren K. Robel, will be the interim provost for the university.

Derrick Bell, a law professor and rights advocate, died Oct. 5th at the age of 80. The New York University law professor was the first tenured black professor at Harvard Law School, hired in 1969. He became dean of The University of Oregon School of Law in 1980, becoming the first black to ever head a non-black law school. He left the school in 1985 to protest the lack of minority hiring and taught at Stanford for a year.