Russell Osgood Named Dean Finalist at San Diego

Tax Prof Russell K. Osgood, former President of Grinnell College (1998-2010) and former Dean of Cornell Law School (1988-98), is one of three finalists for the San Diego deanship.  (The other finalists are Stephen Ferruolo, founding partner of Goodwin Proctor's San Diego office and a former Rhodes Scholar and Stanford history professor (1979-87); and Michael Waterstone, Associate Dean for Research and Academic Centers and J. Howard Ziemann Fellow and Professor of Law at Loyola-L.A.) Russell was a finalist this year in the dean searches at Boston College and Pepperdine. (Hat Tip: Faculty Lounge.)