New York University School of Law announced yesterday that Trevor Morrison, a constitutional law scholar and professor at Columbia Law School, will succeed Richard Revesz as dean. Revesz, who is stepping down May 31, will remain on the law school faculty and will serve as director of the university’s new Marron Institute on Cities and the Urban Environment (NYLJ, March 4). "I am very pleased that Trevor Morrison will be NYU Law’s next dean," NYU president John Sexton said in a news release. "A clear sign of an institution’s direction is the quality of the talent it attracts, and the recruitment of someone of Trevor’s caliber says much about the Law School."
Sexton, who was dean of the law school from 1988 to 2002, chose Morrison from a roster of candidates assembled by a search committee in November. Morrison, 41, is the Liviu Librescu Professor of Law at Columbia. He took leave from that position in 2009 to serve as associate counsel to President Barack Obama. From 2003 to 2008, Morrison taught at Cornell Law School. He was also a visiting associate professor at NYU Law in 2007. Before that, he served as law clerk to Ninth Circuit Judge Betty Fletcher and to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, worked as an attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice and worked as an associate at the firm now known as Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr.
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