Boston University has named Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Chancellor's Professor of Law at UC Berkeley, as its new dean. Onwuachi-Willig, who joined Berkeley from the University of Iowa in 2016, holds a JD from Michigan and a Ph.D in Sociology and African-American Studies from Yale. She succeeds Maureen O'Rourke who, after 14 years, is one of the longest-serving law deans in the country.