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Villanova Law Has New Dean

By Brian Harris

Villanova University has announced that John Yukio Gotanda, J.D., has been named the sixth Dean of Villanova School of Law.

The appointment is the conclusion of a national search that has been ongoing since 2009, spearheaded by a committee of Villanova trustees, faculty, administrators and alumni, according to a press release The Legal received late yesterday.

Gotanda had previously served as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Associate Dean for Research, director of the J.D./M.B.A. Program, and professor at the law school.

?This is a very exciting time in the law school?s history,? Gotanda said in the press release. ?We have a strong and talented group of faculty, students, and alumni, and we have a beautiful new state-of-the-art learning facility. These community assets provide the foundation upon which we will together build our school?s future. I am honored to be entrusted with leading and collaborating with such an impressive group of scholars and students at the Villanova School of Law as we move into the next century.?

Gotanda succeeds Doris DelTosto Brogan, who has served as acting dean of the law school since the departure of the previous Dean Mark Sargent.  The Legal reported last year that Sargent submitted his resignation in July 2009 in the wake of a prostitution investigation.

Full post as published by The Legal Intelligencer Blog on October 29, 2010 (boomark / email).