Pepperdine Dean Finalists

Pepperdine has announced that the faculty will be voting on Friday to send to the university administration its recommendations for a new Dean to replace the departed Ken Starr (who resigned in June to assume the Presidency of Baylor University). The five dean finalists are:

• Richard L. Cupp (John W. Wade Professor of Law, Pepperdine)
• Robert P. George (McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton)
• Russell K. Osgood (former President, Grinnell; former Dean (and Tax Prof), Cornell) 
• L. Timothy Perrin (Vice Dean and Professor of Law, Pepperdine)
• Deanell Reece Tacha (Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, 10th Circuit; former Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs and Professor of Law,  Kansas)