Decanal Finalists at Minnesota:

For the past six months, I’ve been serving on the University of Minnesota Law School’s dean search committee. We’ve now announced the five finalists for dean. In alphabetical order, they are:

Nora Demleitner, Interim Dean and Professor of Law, Hofstra Law School

Gregory Hicks, Interim Dean and Professor of Law, University of Washington Law School

Edward Larson, Professor of Law, Pepperdine Law School

Leon Trakman, Immediate Past Dean and Professor of Law, University of New South Wales

David Wippman, Vice Provost for International Relations and Professor of Law, Cornell University

It’s an outstanding group of scholars and law school leaders. We hope to have a decision made by the end of the year, and have the new dean ready to start on July 1, 2008.

UPDATE: The law school has an announcement of the finalists, with more details, here.