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Former Governor Joins Alma Mater's Law School Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

David Beasley Beasley receives the full-time appointment, effective March 1, as Distinguished Professor of Practice and Public Service in the law school’s Department of Legal Studies. The mission of the law school is to educate lawyer leaders for their communities, our state and nation,” said William Hubbard, dean of the Joseph F.

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Pepperdine law dean talks openly about his stutter

Inside Higher Ed

Today, Caron is dean of law at Pepperdine University. He still stutters: he participated in speech therapy as a child and again at the behest of his law firm early in his career, but the speech disorder remained. ” ‘I Made It Work’ Caron didn’t always intend to be a dean, or a professor, or even a lawyer.

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2023 Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

On June 30, the Supreme Court struck down the measure, which was based on the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students (HEROES) Act of 2003. Professor Ogletree was a once-in-a-century kind of law professor,” said Amos Jones, an attorney who served as Ogletree’s research assistant during his time as a student at Harvard Law School.

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Acting in the Best Interest of the Institution

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

Learning Leadership by Example In describing his leadership style, President Welch recalled a few pivotal moments early in his academic career: “I was going to go to law school to be a politician. I had been president of the student body in high school, and then I became president of the student body at the University of Arkansas.