Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce that Dean Heidi K. Brown will integrate responsibility for coordination and day-to-day oversight of our adjunct faculty community into her portfolio, taking on the duties previously held by Dean of Adjunct Faculty Engagement and Professor Howard Meyers.
Thank you to Professor Meyers for his extraordinary leadership as the Inaugural Dean for Adjunct Faculty Engagement. In that role, he made lasting contributions to strengthening our adjunct faculty community and its vital role in the life of the Law School. Dean Meyers will remain actively involved with the Adjunct Faculty Committee, in addition to his full-time teaching responsibilities and his service as Director of the Center for Business and Financial Law and the Filler Institute for Financial Services Law.
About Dean Brown and Her Work
Dean Brown’s portfolio is the logical place in which to integrate these important duties. As Associate Dean for Upper-Level Writing and Professor of Legal Writing, Dean Brown is a key driver of NYLS’s commitment to a holistic, 21st-century approach to research and writing instruction, including preparing students to meet both the writing demands of the NextGen Bar Exam and the evolving expectations of the legal profession. In addition, she coordinates efforts to re-invigorate the upper-level writing curriculum in alignment with NYLS’s deep commitment to legal research. These critical areas, particularly NextGen bar readiness and upper-level writing instruction, are key priorities in the Law School’s overall work and having the adjunct community more directly aligned with this work is important to the outcomes we seek in the program of legal education.
Dean Brown will serve as a faculty mentor to our adjunct community; coordinate pedagogical, professional development, and training opportunities; and assist adjunct faculty in developing syllabi and other course components. She will continue Dean Meyers’ work in hosting networking forums and facilitating connections between adjunct and full-time faculty based on areas of expertise. Dean Brown will also support opportunities for adjunct faculty involvement in the scholarly life of the Law School and in the delivery of our CLE programming.
Please join us in thanking Dean Brown for integrating these important responsibilities into her work, and in also thanking Dean Meyers for his tremendously impactful service.
Finally, please hold Monday, March 23, at 1:00 p.m. for our Adjunct Annual Luncheon, where we will further celebrate the essential contributions of our adjunct faculty to NYLS and to the legal community.
Sincerely,
Anthony W. Crowell
Dean and President
Matt Gewolb
Senior Associate Dean