Hamilton Named Dean of UNLV

Professor Daniel Hamilton, the associate dean for faculty development at the University of Illinois College of Law, has been named the new dean of the University of Nevada Las Vegas law school.  Hamilton has a JD from George Washington and a Ph.D in history from Harvard.  As Al Brophy notes over at the Faculty Lounge, Hamilton joins Bill Treanor, Dave Douglas, Bruce Smith,  Ray Solomon, and Greg Mark as legal historians turned law school deans.