Federal Judge David F. Levi Selected as Dean of Duke Law School.

AScribe Law News Service, January, 2007

Byline: Duke University

DURHAM, N.C., Jan. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- David F. Levi, Chief U.S. District Judge of the Eastern District of California and a national leader in legal reform and civil procedure, has been selected as the next dean of Duke Law School, Duke University Provost Peter Lange announced Wednesday.

If approved by the university's Board of Trustees later this month, Levi, 55, will succeed Katharine T. Bartlett on July 1, 2007. Bartlett announced her plans last spring to step down at the end of the school year to return to teaching and scholarship after seven years as dean.

Citing Levi's leadership as chair of the Judicial Conference Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure and his service on numerous legal rules and...

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