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Interim deans announced at Arizona State, Stetson, Emory

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Three new interim deans were recently announced

• Professor Douglas Sylvester has been named Interim Dean of the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. Sylvester, who has served for the last three years as the law school’s Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development, was named to the new post by ASU upon the departure of Paul Schiff Berman who will become dean at The George Washington University Law School. Sylvester practiced law in the Global e-Commerce Practice Group at Baker & McKenzie in Chicago. Sylvester earned his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Buffalo Law School, where he served as executive editor of the Buffalo Law Review. He also has an LL.M. from New York University School of Law.

Stetson University Provost Beth Paul announced today that Professor Royal C. Gardner will serve as interim dean of the College of Law beginning in early July. Dean Darby Dickerson has accepted a deanship at Texas Tech University School of Law. Professor Gardner has served as vice dean, associate dean for academics, and director of international programs, and is the director of the Institute for Biodiversity Law and Policy as well as a professor of law at Stetson University College of Law.  A national search for the next Dean of the Stetson University College of Law will begin shortly.  Provost Paul will appoint the search committee by mid-July.

• Professor Robert A. Schapiro has been appointed interim dean of Emory University School of Law, effective July 1. A member of the Emory Law faculty since 1995, also has been serving as associate vice provost for academic affairs for Emory University and co-director of Emory Law’s Center on Federalism and Intersystemic Governance.  Schapiro has served as Emory Law’s associate dean of faculty (2006-2008) and as associate faculty director for Emory’s Halle Institute for Global Learning (2008-2010).  Schapiro received a bachelor’s degree, summa cum laude, from Yale College in 1984 and a master’s degree in history from Stanford University in 1986. He earned his juris doctor in 1990 from Yale Law School, where he was editor in chief of the Yale Law Journal.

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