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...tight-lipped search for the new dean of Harvard Law School (HLS) has left most faculty with no direct knowledge of who the search is focusing on, or even when a final decision will come...
Stanford Law Dean and former HLS professor Kathleen B. Sullivan and Kennedy School Government Professor Frederick Schauer are mentioned as leading candidates beyond HLS...
...progress at HLS follows much the same pattern of the three other dean searches Summers has conducted since he arrived a year and a half ago. The outgoing dean steps down and Summers hand-picks an advisory committee. An e-mail account—hls-deansearch@harvard.edu in this latest case—is created to solicit feedback. Several months pass without much talk, and then with little warning, a new dean is announced...
Thirteen years ago, HLS professors battled with then-President Derek C. Bok over the appointment of a search committee, claiming the faculty’s right to choose their own dean. That stand-off ended with Bok officially appointing a committee that matched the one the faculty had originally elected...
...result has been that most professors—except for the nine HLS professors on the advisory committee—have been left in the dark...