- Leonard Strickman
Leonard P. Strickman (born
April 14 ,1942 inBrooklyn, New York ) has been the Dean of threelaw schools . Most recently, he has served as the founding Dean of theFlorida International University College of Law .Strickman was born and raised in New York. His father, a
chemist who had lacked the means to go tomedical school , hoped to see one of his sons receive amedical degree . Strickman therefore entered college as apre-med student, but found himself instead drawn to the study oflaw . Strickman attendedYale Law School , where he served as member of the Board of Editors on theYale Law Journal .His first academic position was as a member of the law faculty at Boston University, which he left to spend two years as Minority Counsel to the
United States Senate Select Committee on Equal Education Opportunity. He returned to teaching law at theBoston College Law School for nine years, then became Dean and Professor at theNorthern Illinois University College of Law for the next nine years, leading the law school from provisional to fullAmerican Bar Association accreditation and membership in theAssociation of American Law Schools . Strickman then served as Dean of theUniversity of Arkansas School of Law for eight years, during which time he spent six years on the ABA Accreditation Committee. In the 1980s and 1990s, he chaired fifteen accreditation site visits for the ABA.Strickman joined
Florida International University in January, 2001, and has since successfully guided the law school to provisional accreditation at the earliest possible time, in August 2004, and to full accreditation in December 2006. Florida International University School of Law received an initial third-tier ranking in its first year of eligibility in the U.S. News & World Report in 2007.External links
* [http://law.fiu.edu/administration/admin_strickman.htm Florida International University webpage for Leonard Strickman]
* [http://news.fiu.edu/fiumag/spring_01/brief.htm FIU Magazine article on Dean Strickman coming to FIU]
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