UCLA Law Dean Michael Schill to Take Helm at U of Chicago Law School
Michael Schill has announced that he will resign as dean of the law school at the University of California at Los Angeles in order to accept a new job as dean of the University of Chicago Law School.
His resignation will take effect at the end of the calendar year, explains a letter from Chancellor Gene Block that is being circulated by the UCLA Newsroom.
A 1984 graduate of Yale Law School, Schill has been at UCLA for a little over five years. During that time he has overseen a campaign to establish the law school’s first $100 million endowment campaign, which is already 65 percent funded, recruited faculty from leading law schools and not only increased racial and ethnic diversity among students but helped make the class of 2012 the best-credentialed in the law school’s history, Block writes.
A nationally known property law scholar, Schill will succeed Saul Levmore, who announced earlier this year that he plans to step down as dean to return to full-time scholarship, notes a U of C law school press release. Levmore has served as dean since 2001.
