The next dean of Columbia Law School will be Gillian Lester, now the acting dean at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, where she has taught since 2006.

Lester will assume Columbia’s deanship on January 1, 2015, Columbia University administrators announced on Wednesday. David Schizer will step down from the post at the end of the academic year after a decade in the job. Professor Robert Scott will serve as interim dean until Lester’s arrival.