Welcome back to Ahead of the Curve. I’m Karen Sloan, legal education editor at Law.com, and I’ll be your host for this weekly look at innovation and notable developments in legal education.

This week I’m looking at brand new data on the gender and ethnicity of current law deans, courtesy of Mississippi College law professor Jim Rosenblatt’s Dean’s Database, which reveals a few surprises. Next I’m checking in on the University of Houston Law Center’s newly approved $90 million law campus, which could signal a new era of investment in law school facilities. Read on!