Columbia Law School Names 35-Year-Old Tax Law Specialist David Schizer As Dean.

AScribe Law News Service, June, 2004

Byline: Columbia Law School

NEW YORK, June 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- David M. Schizer, a 35-year-old Columbia Law School professor, has been named the 14th Dean of the School by Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger. He is the youngest dean of the nation's top law schools.

"David Schizer is a person of exceptional talent and character. Indeed, the very qualities that have made him a phenomenal teacher will make him an equally successful dean," said Bollinger, himself a 1971 graduate of the School. "Under his leadership, the Law school will continue to provide a rigorous legal education and to serve as one of the world's leading centers for legal scholarship and practice."

Schizer will succeed David W. Leebron, who has accepted an...

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