Dean's Speaker Series lecture featuring Mark G. Yudof

The UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law presents a
Dean’s Speaker Series lecture featuring
 

Mark G. Yudof

Professor, School of Law, University of California, Berkeley

​President Emeritus, University of California

Tuesday, February 9, 2016 | 4:00 p.m.

Thomas & Mack Moot Court, UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law

Mark G. Yudof is a Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley and served as the 19th president of the University of California from June 2008 through September 2013.  As UC President, he led a university system with 10 campuses, five medical centers, three affiliated national laboratories, a statewide agriculture and natural resources program, and more than 230,000 students.

He served as chancellor of the University of Texas System from August 2002 to May 2008, and as president of the four-campus University of Minnesota from 1997 to 2002. Before that, he served as dean of the law school at the University of Texas at Austin from 1984 to 1994, and as the University's executive vice president and provost from 1994 to 1997.

President Emeritus Yudof is a renowned authority on constitutional law, freedom of expression and education law. A Philadelphia native, he earned both LL.B. and B.A. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania.  In 2013, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion awarded him an honorary degree, Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa.

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