Deans & Legal Education
A Selected Bibliography
October 2008

Leadership

Samuel Marion Davis, There and Back Again: A Dean's Tale in Law School Leadership Strategies: Top Deans on Benchmarking Success, Incorporating Feedback from Faculty and Students, and Building the Endowment 2006, 159-177 (Inside the Minds Series 2006).
The author offers his strategies for achieving financial and academic success as a dean.

Claudio Grossman, Building a Stronger Future in Law School Leadership Strategies: Top Deans on Benchmarking Success, Incorporating Feedback from Faculty and Students, and Building the Endowment 2006, 7-18 (Inside the Minds Series 2006).
The author offers his thoughts on leadership and measuring the dean's success as a leader.

Robert H. Jerry, II, Defining and Achieving Excellence in Law School Leadership Strategies: Top Deans on Benchmarking Success, Incorporating Feedback from Faculty and Students, and Building the Endowment 2006, 145-158 (Inside the Minds Series 2006).
The author offers his perspective on excellence in law schools and how the dean can take the leading role in achieving it.

Robert H. Jerry, II, Reflections on Leadership , 38 U. T ol . L. R ev . 539 (2007).
The author ruminates on management and leadership. He notes “a leader must set the example the leader wants others to follow; a leader must listen to the ideas of others because no leader has all the right answers and others in the organization often have better ideas; a leader must be comfortable delegating authority …; a leader is able to tolerate mistakes , but a leader is also intolerant of repeated mistakes and is able to deliver discipline…”

W.H. Knight, Jr., The Dean as Cultural Catalyst in Law School Leadership Strategies: Top Deans on Benchmarking Success, Incorporating Feedback from Faculty and Students, and Building the Endowment 2006, 71-99 (Inside the Minds Series 2006).
The author offers “a few thoughts about what it means to lead in a law school context.”

Harold J. Krent & Ronald W. Staudt, Leadership Opportunities Hiding in Plain View , 36 U. T ol . L. R ev . 111 (2004).
The authors urge greater use of technology to provide additional opportunities to students and to help more individuals in need of legal representation.

Don LeDuc, Leadership , 35 U. T ol . L. R ev . 125 (2003).
The author discusses the qualities of a good leader.

Elizabeth Rinskopf Parker, The Life Cycle of a Dean in Law School Leadership Strategies: Top Deans on Benchmarking Success, Incorporating Feedback from Faculty and Students, and Building the Endowment 2006, 35-47 (Inside the Minds Series 2006).
The author offers her thoughts on maximizing the dean's academic leadership potential over the length of her tenure as dean.

Edward Rubin, Leadership and Literature in Law School Leadership Strategies: Top Deans on Benchmarking Success, Incorporating Feedback from Faculty and Students, and Building the Endowment 2006, 207-222 (Inside the Minds Series 2006).
The author reflects on leadership and considers leadership advice, drawing on both business leadership literature and literary theory.

Kent D. Syverud, A Parable of Law School Leadership , 35 U. T ol . L. R ev . 207 (2003).
The author recounts the story of discovering a speech made at Vanderbilt by Dr. Martin Luther King. He uses it as an illustration of the ability of an effective dean to empower law school personnel to make correct and courageous decisions.

Glen Weissenberger, Balancing the Challenges with the Rewards in Law School Leadership Strategies: Top Deans on Benchmarking Success, Incorporating Feedback from Faculty and Students, and Building the Endowment 2006, 49-56 (Inside the Minds Series 2006).
The author offers advice on how to be a successful dean, including having a vision, articulating it clearly, and choosing the right team to implement it.