As the academic year winds down, a new crop of law school deans is preparing to take over, with five campuses in recent weeks announcing appointments.
On Thursday, Syracuse University College of Law named current Cleveland-Marshall College of Law dean Craig Boise as its next leader. The previous day, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles named professor Michael Waterstone as its next dean while the University of Colorado Law School tapped James Anaya, a professor at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law. The week before, the University of Denver Sturm College of Law named Bruce Smith, former dean of the University of Illinois College of Law, its next leader. And late last month, Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clerk Law School announced it was promoting professor Gordon Smith to its deanship.
