Clockwise ranging from high left – Oren Griffin, Emily Suski, William Corbett and Colin Crawford.
4 candidates for the dean of the Faculty of Legislation — Oren Griffin, Emily Suski, Colin Crawford, and William Corbett — will maintain open boards on Nov. 3, 13, 17 and 20, respectively. All open boards will likely be held at 2:30 p.m. within the E.J. Ball Courtroom within the Faculty of Legislation.
Throughout their presentation, every candidate will describe the College of Arkansas Faculty of Legislation as they envision it in 5 years, together with its public engagement and repair to Arkansas, partnerships with enterprise and trade, pupil outcomes and scholarly profile. Candidates can even communicate to what could stay the identical and what could change as a part of their imaginative and prescient and determine the important thing management expertise they’ll leverage to realize it. Every presentation will likely be adopted by a question-and-answer session.
The campus group will have the ability to attend the displays in individual or just about. A recording after every open discussion board can even be obtainable for these unable to attend. Extra info on how one can attend just about or view the recorded presentation will likely be supplied on the School of Law dean search website and in Arkansas News.
About Oren Griffin
Presenting Nov. 3 at 2:30 p.m.
Griffin is a professor of legislation at The College of Tulsa School of Legislation. From 2022-2025, he served because the dean of the faculty and the Chapman Endowed Chair. His expertise in greater schooling spans greater than 20 years. Previous to his roles at The College of Tulsa School of Legislation, he served as a professor of legislation, affiliate dean for educational affairs and affiliate dean for strategic initiatives at Mercer College in Macon, Georgia. He has additionally served as a training legal professional with giant and midsize legislation companies.
Griffin’s educating and scholarship focuses on civil process, labor and employment legislation, and better schooling legislation. His work has been printed in legislation evaluate and coverage journals throughout the nation. He has authored the e-book Investigating School Pupil Misconduct, which was printed by Johns Hopkins College Press and concentrates on authorized points affecting the investigation of pupil misconduct in greater schooling. He has a number of upcoming books slated to be printed over the following yr, which middle on authorized points surrounding employment in greater schooling.
He holds a Juris Physician from the Washington and Lee College Faculty of Legislation in Lexington, Virginia. He additionally holds a doctorate from the College of Iowa, a grasp’s diploma from the College of Northern Iowa and a bachelor’s diploma from the Southern College at New Orleans. For extra info on Griffin, view his curriculum vitae.
About Emily Suski
Presenting Nov. 13 at 2:30 p.m.
Suski is a professor of legislation and the affiliate dean for strategic and institutional priorities on the College of South Carolina Joseph F. Rice Faculty of Legislation. She is the founding school director of the Carolina Well being Advocacy Medicolegal Partnership (CHAMPS) and just lately served because the affiliate dean for clinics and externships on the College of South Carolina. Previous to becoming a member of the College of South Carolina, Suski was a school member at Georgia State College School of Legislation and the College of Virginia Faculty of Legislation. As well as, she was a employees legal professional for the JustChildren Program of the Authorized Help Justice Middle in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Her educating and areas of experience embody schooling, well being and poverty legislation, and scientific authorized schooling. Her scholarship explores points on the intersection of schooling legislation and civil rights. She has been printed in a number of journals, together with the Stanford Legislation Evaluation, Emory Legislation Journal, Iowa Legislation Evaluation, Minnesota Legislation Evaluation, California Legislation Evaluation, UCLA Legislation Evaluation and Scientific Legislation Evaluation.
Suski holds a Grasp of Legal guidelines with honors from Georgetown College Legislation Middle. She additionally holds a Juris Physician, a Grasp of Social Work and Bachelor of Arts with distinction from the College of North Carolina. For extra info on Suski, view her curriculum vitae.
About Colin Crawford
Presenting Nov. 17 at 2:30 p.m.
Crawford is the dean and a professor of legislation on the William H. Bowen Faculty of Legislation on the College of Arkansas, Little Rock. Previous to his present position, he served as dean and a professor of legislation at Golden Gate College Faculty of Legislation in San Francisco and the Louis D. Brandeis Faculty of Legislation on the College of Louisville in Kentucky. Earlier than turning into a tutorial administrator, Crawford held school positions at Tulane College and Georgia State College School of Legislation. Throughout his time at Georgia State, he was a Fulbright Scholar on the Instituto Tecnologico de Santo Domingo within the Dominican Republic and obtained a four-year grant from the U.S. Company for Worldwide Improvement to enhance the educating of environmental legislation in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Crawford’s educating and scholarship focuses on actual property legislation and land use and environmental legislation. He has taught and carried out analysis at many worldwide universities, together with the Carlos III College Faculty of Legislation in Madrid, the Chuo College in Tokyo and the Institute for Utilized Economics in Rio de Janeiro, amongst others. As well as, he has designed and directed many overseas examine applications in Brazil, Cuba, Panama and Switzerland.
He holds a Juris Physician from Harvard Legislation Faculty, a grasp’s diploma from Cambridge College and a bachelor’s diploma in historical past from Columbia College. For extra info on Crawford, view his curriculum vitae.
About William Corbett
Presenting Nov. 20 at 2:30 p.m.
Corbett is a professor of legislation on the Paul M. Hebert Legislation Middle of Louisiana State College (LSU Legislation), the place he has been a school member for greater than 34 years. He’s additionally the manager director of the Louisiana Affiliation of Protection Counsel, a place he has held since 2001. All through his time at LSU Legislation, he has served as interim vice chancellor, vice chancellor for educational and pupil affairs, interim co-dean and interim dean. As well as, Corbett served as a visiting school member at William & Mary and the College of Georgia. Previous to becoming a member of LSU Legislation, Corbett was a training legal professional at Burr & Forman, in Birmingham, Alabama.
Corbett’s educating and scholarship focuses on labor and employment legislation and civil process. He was inducted as a fellow within the School of Labor and Employment Attorneys, and he has obtained awards from his college students and the Louisiana Bar Basis. He was additionally the 2024 recipient of the LSU Basis Distinguished School Educating Award.
He holds a Juris Physician from the College of Alabama Faculty of Legislation, the place he served as editor in chief of the Alabama Legislation Evaluation. He additionally holds a bachelor’s diploma in schooling from Auburn College. For extra info on Corbett, view his curriculum vitae.
The dean seek for the Faculty of Legislation is chaired by Dean of the Fulbright School of Arts and Sciences Brian Raines.
“The search committee and I are happy to introduce the 4 finalists for the dean of the Faculty of Legislation,” Raines stated. “Every candidate brings a robust report of management and scholarly achievement in authorized schooling, and the search committee is assured that anyone of those finalists would proceed the Faculty of Legislation’s legacy and contribute to its future success in assist of the College of Arkansas’ land-grant mission.”
For extra info on the dean candidates and the search course of, please go to the School of Law dean search website.
In regards to the College of Arkansas: As Arkansas’ flagship establishment, the U of A gives an internationally aggressive schooling in additional than 200 tutorial applications. Based in 1871, the U of A contributes greater than $3 billion to Arkansas’ economy by way of the educating of recent information and expertise, entrepreneurship and job growth, discovery by way of analysis and artistic exercise whereas additionally offering coaching for skilled disciplines. The Carnegie Basis classifies the U of A among the many few U.S. faculties and universities with the best degree of analysis exercise. U.S. Information & World Report ranks the U of A among the many high public universities within the nation. See how the U of A works to construct a greater world at Arkansas Research and Economic Development News.
