Let the hiring season begin. UVA announced last week that Paul Mahoney will take over as law school dean when John Jeffries, who has held the post since 2001, steps down this summer.
A University law professor since 1990, Mahoney’s specialties are on the corporate and financial sides of the law. He’s a graduate of MIT and Yale Law School, and he clerked for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
 Paul Mahoney will bring a corporate law and finance background to the law school deanship. |
“Paul Mahoney will join a distinguished line of scholar-deans who have served and led the Law School since its beginnings,” said UVA President John Casteen in a press release. Casteen added, “Succeeding the retiring dean, John Jeffries, is not a task for a timid mind or spirit.” Jeffries will take a year-long sabbatical before returning as a law professor.
As part of the University’s $3 billion capital campaign, the law school is in the midst of a $150 million fundraising quest. In addition to fighting to keep the law school in the Top 10 nationally, Mahoney will have to keep that funding drive alive. The law school has raised $82 million as of the end of January.
But the law school deanship is just one of a slew of upper echelon posts that UVA needs to fill, including deans for the med school, the nursing school and Arts & Sciences, which has been open since November 2006 when Ed Ayers announced he would become the president of the University of Richmond.
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