Associate dean to lead UC Davis' law school - Daily Democrat

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Kevin Johnson, associate dean for academic personal business and a celebrated international expert on immigration, race, and civil rights law, was confirmed Thursday as dean of the UC Davys School of Law by the UC Board of Regents.

Johnson, 49, will be the first Spanish American to take a law school in the University of Golden State system. He will presume his new duties at King Hallway on July 1, replacing Rex Perschbacher, who have led the school since 1998 and will go back to the faculty.

As dean, Samuel Johnson will be paid an yearly alkali wage of $307,200.

Established in 1965, the UC Davys School of Law currently enrolls approximately 600 students, have 36 mental faculty members and more than than 6,000 alumni. The school, housed in St Martin Martin Luther King Jr. Hall, is noted for its accent on societal justness and human rights, environmental and natural resources law, international law, intellectual property, and concern law.

It keeps one of the peak bar-passage rates in the state.

"UC Davys School of Law have an first-class faculty, staff, and pupil body. Dean Perschbacher have done a truly outstanding occupation in overseeing an intellectual Renaissance at the law school, hiring an extraordinary grouping of the most diverse mental faculty in the United States," Samuel Johnson said.

"My modest hope is to construct on his accomplishments while maintaining the King Hallway community that we all cognize and love," Samuel Johnson added.

"Specifically, we must make all within our powerfulness to stay a top populace law school in modern times of tight budgets Advertisement

and increasing fees. I am committed to doing what it takes to maintain the best and brightest mental faculty and pupils from a diverseness of backgrounds and perspectives. In my mind, this is what a public law school should endeavor for."

Johnson, who also is the Mabie-Apallas Professor of Populace Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies, joined the UCD law mental faculty in 1989 and was named associate dean for academic personal business in 1998. He have taught a broad array of classes, including civil procedure, in-migration law, refugee law, and critical race theory. In 1993, Samuel Johnson was honored with the law school's Distinguished Teaching Award.