UNLV announced the appointment of John Valery White as Dean of the Boyd School of Law, effective July 1, 2007.
Professor White is a dynamic and accomplished legal scholar and a superb leader, who comes to UNLV from Louisiana State University. He has been a faculty member of the Paul M. Herbert Law Center since 1992, and holds the J. Dawson Gasquet Memorial Professorship. He has also served as a distinguished visiting professor at the University of Insubria in Como, Italy, and prior to teaching law, he served as the Orville Schell Fellow at Human Rights Watch in New York City. Professor White received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1991, where he was a notes and topics editor for the Yale Law Journal and participated in the Jerome N. Frank Legal Service Organization. We are delighted Professor White will be joining the team at the Boyd School of Law, and look forward to working with him to advance the school as it enters its second decade. Please join us in welcoming John Valery White to UNLV.
