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Professor of Law Lance M. Liebman, an expert on property, anti-discrimination and social insurance law who was one of several candidates for the post of dean at Harvard Law School in 1989, has been recommended to Columbia President Michael Sovern for the New York law school's top job, according to search committee member W. Kenneth Jones...
Jones declined to comment on the details of the search process, but said that it was "generally available knowledge" that Liebman was the faculty's choice to succeed outgoing Dean Barbara Black...
Columbia spokesperson Fred H. Knubel said that the search committee had forwarded a candidate's name to Sovern in December, after a vote of the full law faculty. But he refused to confirm or deny Liebman's selection...
Sovern was out of town last week and could not be reached for comment. Liebman declined to comment on the status of the search...
Calling Williams "one of the most prominent lawyers in the U.S.," Liebman says, "He is a very savvy person, with a major interest in Harvard...