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Bryant Garth to Become Interim Law School Dean
By a MetNews Staff Writer
Bryant Garth, former dean of Southwestern Law School, will come out of retirement to assume the role of interim dean of the University of California, Irvine School of Law on June 2, it was announced yesterday.
Garth was dean at Southwestern from 2005 until 2012, when he joined the faculty at UC Irvine.
He succeeds Dean L. Song Richardson who will become the president of Colorado College. She is UC Irvine’s Law’s second dean, succeeding founding Dean Erwin Chemerinsky in 2018.
Garth received his law degree in 1977 from Stanford where he was elected to Order of the Coif and was editor-in-chief of the Journal of International Studies. He went on to earn a European doctorate in law degree in 1979 from the European University Institute in Florence.
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The educator was dean of the Indiana University-Bloomington School of Law from 1986-90 and was director of the American Bar Foundation from 1990-2004.
He is proficient in three foreign languages and a member of the state bars of California and Indiana.
A nationwide search for a dean will commence later this year, a law school spokesperson said.
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