UNLV president David Ashley today announced that Professor John White of LSU will be the next dean of the William S. Boyd School of Law. The announcement is below.

I am pleased to formally announce the appointment of John Valery White as Dean of the Boyd School of Law, effective July 1, 2007.

John is a dynamic and accomplished legal scholar and a superb leader, who comes to UNLV from Louisiana State University. He has been a faculty member of the Paul M. Herbert Law Center since 1992 and holds the J. Dawson Gasquet Memorial Professorship. He has also served as a distinguished visiting professor at the University of Insubria in Como, Italy, and prior to teaching law, he served as the Orville Schell Fellow at Human Rights Watch in New York City. John received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1991, where he was a notes and topics editor for the Yale Law Journal and participated in the Jerome N. Frank Legal Service Organization.

I am delighted John will be joining the team at the Boyd School of Law, and look forward to working with him to advance the school as it enters its second decade. I very much appreciate the work of the search committee and extend my sincere thanks to everyone who contributed to the search process.

Please join me in welcoming John Valery White to UNLV. For more information, please read the full news release at www.unlv.edu.

Sincerely,

David B. Ashley
President

Nancy Rapoport has a nice post today about helping law school deans come to new appointments and making their departures graceful. Rapoport has some good thoughts on the departures of deans from law schools. "We seem to be much better at celebrating the departures of professors and staff members than we are at celebrating the departures of deans," Rapoport says.