On Feb. 22, University of North Texas System Chancellor Lee F. Jackson announced that Michael Hunter Schwartz will serve as associate dean for the UNT Dallas College of Law, which is slated to open in 2014.

Schwartz is a professor and associate dean for faculty and academic development at Washburn University School of Law in Topeka, Kan., where he also is co-director for the Institute for Law Teaching and Learning at Washburn. He will join UNT Dallas College of Law in May 2013.