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By Brooks Igo
(June 20) – Texas A&M has found a new dean for its law school.
The chancellor and board of regents of Texas A&M have approved Robert Ahdieh, a former professor of Private International Law and Director of the Center of Federalism and Intersystemic Governance at Emory University School of Law, as the Anthony G. Buzbee Endowed Dean’s Chair at the Fort Worth-based law school.
An internal announcement obtained by The Texas Lawbook states that Ahdieh will start as the new leader of the Texas A&M School of Law on July 15.
“I believe no law school in the country has traveled further, in so short a time. Nor does any have more upside potential, going forward,” Ahdieh said in an email to The Texas Lawbook.
Ahdieh received his law degree from Yale and clerked for Judge James R. Browning of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit before being selected for the Attorney General’s Honors Program of the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
At Emory, Ahdieh served as vice dean and associate dean of faculty for seven years. His scholarly expertise is focused on regulatory and institutional design matters, particularly in the business and financial sectors. He has been published in the NYU Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, the Minnesota Law Review, the Boston University Law Review, and the Southern California Law Review.
Ahdieh will replace interim dean Thomas Mitchell, who led the law school for almost a year after Andrew Morriss took his post as founding dean of the School of Innovation and vice president for entrepreneurship and economic development at Texas A&M.
“Bobby is a brilliant hire. He has a better understanding of the issues facing legal education than anyone I’ve ever met,” Morriss, who was the law school’s first appointed dean under Texas A&M, said. “It is a great signal that they were able to find someone like Bobby to be the new dean.”
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