Georgetown Law Center has announced the appointment of William Treanor as its new dean. Treanor joined the Fordham faculty in 1991 and became dean in 2002. In addition to being a highly successful academic administrator, he is a notable legal historian. Treanor is a double Yale grad and recently completed his Ph.D in history from Harvard. In 1998, he took a leave from Fordham and served as Deputy Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel during the last years of the Clinton administration. He's also a really nice guy.
As I noted over at Leiter's Law School Reports, this news is a double edged sword for Fordham. It's losing a very successful dean. But the fact that Georgetown chose to tap a Fordham professor suggests what many of us already believe: that Fordham is among the law school elite.
This is great news! Many, many congratulations to Georgetown and to Bill.
Do qualifications get any more stellar than Treanor's?
You can also add that he is a great teacher, though he does not spend much time in the classroom anymore. I had a bunch of classes with him in law school, including first-year property. He's one of the best teachers I ever had, and the fact that I now teach and write on property is due in large part to how interesting he made that class.