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By Brooks Igo
(June 8) – Texas Tech University School of Law announced this week that it has named Jack Wade Nowlin, a professor of law and senior associate dean at the University of Mississippi School of Law, as its new dean.
Nowlin officially takes the reins of the law school on July 15 from Interim Dean Rick Rosen, who had been leading the law school since the beginning of the year after former Dean Darby Dickerson announced her move to the John Marshall Law School in Chicago.
“I am so pleased to come back home to Texas after so many years away,” Nowlin, who is a graduate of Angelo State University and the University of Texas School of Law, said in a statement.
“West Texas is a wonderful place with wonderful people, and I still have family here. I know that this is the start of something truly special.”
Nowlin directed the Ole Miss law school’s faculty workshop program. He focuses his academic research on judicial power, interpretative theory and constitutional structure and has taught courses on constitutional law, jurisprudence, criminal procedure, criminal law and academic legal writing.
Over his 17-year tenure at the University of Mississippi, Nowlin won the University Professor of the Year award twice (2006 and 2012). He also received the Ben A. Hardy Faculty Excellence Award in 2011 for outstanding teaching, scholarship and service.
Prior to his time at the University of Mississippi, Nowlin was the Alpheus T. Mason Fellow in Public Law and a lecturer in constitutional interpretation at Princeton.
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