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Duke Law Dean Stepping Down

After 11 years, Duke Law will be looking for new leadership.

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Duke MessageEarlier this afternoon, Dean David Levi announced that he will be stepping down as dean of Duke Law School at the end of the 2017-18 school year. According to his statement, the search for a new dean will begin next week.

By the time Levi leaves his post, he will have led the school for 11 years, having joined the school after resigning as Chief Judge of the Eastern District of California. And an eventful 11 years it was — Dean Levi enumerated just a few of the achievements he’s most proud to have been associated with in his statement:

We have established new programs, such as the Center for Judicial Studies, Wintersession, the degree in Law and Entrepreneurship, and the new Center on Law and Technology. We have greatly expanded clinical and experiential education, including launching the Start-Up Ventures Clinic, the International Human Rights Clinic, and the Civil Justice Clinic, and growing the Environmental Law and Policy Clinic and Health Justice Clinic. We have deepened the Law School’s global connections, including expanding the International LLM program and building new ties to foreign faculties. We have guaranteed summer funding for students pursuing public interest positions and government service. We have built a Career and Professional Development Center that is second to none among our peers, ensuring that every one of our students can find the right job opportunity after graduation.

Like any dean, even his farewell announcement concluded with a donation request. Everyday I’m hustlin’, yo.

Congratulations to Dean Levi on the major life announcement and good luck to the school on selecting a new dean.

Some of you may have also noticed that this move comes a week after Duke reached number 4 in the Above the Law Top 50 Law Schools rankings.

Because, really, after that, what more is there to achieve?

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