Finalists for UND Law School dean to visit campus - Grand Forks Herald

GRAND FORKS — The four finalists for dean of the UND School of Law will visit campus next week

The candidates will participate in open forums, which will be held from March 23-29. Once selected, the new dean will succeed Michael McGinniss, who has served since 2019 and has announced his intention to step down to return to a teaching position at the law school.

The open forums can be viewed online. Links to the online platform will be available on the law school’s dean search website, as well as information about the candidates and their academic backgrounds.

Finalists for the dean position, and the dates they will visit campus, are:

• Brian A. Pappas: 12:05-1 p.m. March 23.
• Lumen “Lou” Mulligan: 12:05–1 p.m. March 24.
• Fareed Nassor Hayat: 12:05–1 p.m. March 28.
• Bradley Myers: 12:05–1 p.m. March 29.

Pappas is an academic administrator, faculty member and mediator specializing in organizational development, collaboration, conflict management and high impact experiential learning. He served from 2019 to 2022 as associate provost for faculty affairs at Eastern Michigan University, where he oversaw recruitment, retention, policy development, tenure and promotion, collective bargaining and conflict management for 750 instructional staff. Previously, he worked for 10 years at Michigan State University’s College of Law as clinical professor, associate director of ADR, and director of the Conflict Resolution Clinic.

Mulligan currently holds the Earl B. Shurtz research professorship at the University of Kansas Law School. He is a five-time recipient of teaching awards given by the student body in the past 10 years. He serves in numerous leadership roles at KU Law, including past associate dean, chair of the bar-passage initiative and as a faculty adviser for the Black Law Students Association. He supervises KU Law’s two Medical-Legal Partnership Clinics, overseeing more than 1,150 annual indigent-client referrals across a host of poverty-law issues.

Hayat is the interim senior associate academic dean and associate professor of law at City University New York School of Law. He is a first-generation high school graduate, college graduate and lawyer. He is the chair of the academic standing committee, member of the curriculum, hiring, personnel and budget committee and senior leadership group at CUNY School of Law. Hayat teaches criminal law, criminal procedure, lawyering and trial advocacy. Prior to joining the law faculty, he was the co-director of the Criminal Justice Clinic at Howard University School of Law.

Myers is the associate dean for academic affairs and administration, and the Randy H. Lee professor at the UND School of Law. Myers joined the faculty in 2001 and teaches federal income taxation, trusts and estates and estate planning. Myers served as the School of Law’s interim dean for the 2018-19 academic year. He has held positions in several state and national legal organizations. Former Gov. John Hoeven appointed him one of North Dakota’s commissioners to the Uniform Law Commission in 2007, and he has served on several drafting committees for uniform acts in the trusts and estates area. He became a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation in 2016.

source: https://www.grandforksherald.com/news/local/finalists-for-und-law-school-dean-to-visit-campus

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