Experienced dean at University of Baltimore School of Law named dean of Seton Hall Law
The Seton Hall University School of Law has announced the appointment of a new dean, Ronald W. Weich, an experienced attorney and law school administrator.
Weich has served as the dean of the University of Baltimore School of Law since 2012. He will still be in that position until he starts his time at Seton Hall. Before his experience in academia, he was the assistant attorney general for legislative affairs in the Department of Justice, appointed by President Barack Obama. He held that position from 2009 through 2012.
Other posts in Washington, D.C., included chief counsel to U.S. Sens. Edward M. Kennedy and Harry Reid.
Weich's accomplishments while serving as dean of the University of Baltimore School of Law include obtaining government and philanthropic funding for its human trafficking and pretrial justice clinics. The funding also supported the Sayra and Neil Meyerhoff Center for Families, Children and the Courts.
He also helped secure a $3 million gift to help create the Center for Criminal Justice Reform and a criminal defense and advocacy clinic at the Baltimore school.
Weich is a graduate of Yale Law School and previously studied as an undergraduate at Columbia University and the London School of Economics.
After law school, he started his career in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office as an assistant district attorney.
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Weich succeeds the interim dean, John Kip Cornwell, who has been the dean of Seton Hall Law since the start of 2023. Kathleen M. Boozang was the last non-interim dean of the New Jersey law school, serving between the summer of 2015 and the start of Cornwell's term.
"Dean Weich’s qualifications, leadership experience and legal acumen are of the highest caliber. He embodies the tradition of excellence at Seton Hall Law that has propelled our alumni to the highest levels of the bench and bar for over 70 years," Cornwell said.
The incoming class for Seton Hall Law currently stands at 242 students. Weich will begin his term on July 1.
This article originally appeared on NorthJersey.com: Seton Hall School of Law introduces Ronald W. Weich as new dean
