William Powers Jr., president of The University of Texas at Austin, announced on May 9 the appointment of Ward Farnsworth, associate dean for academic affairs at Boston University School of Law, as the permanent replacement for former School of Law Dean Lawrence Sager. In December 2011, Sager resigned in the wake of pressure from faculty members who complained about what they identified as his administrations lack of transparency, particularly concerning compensation issues.
Farnsworth, who will start June 1, will be immediately taking over for UT School of Law faculty member Stefanie Lindquist, who serves as interim dean. “I couldn’t be more excited to come down,” Farnsworth says. With a 1994 law degree from the University of Chicago, Farnsworth worked as a law clerk to Richard A. Posner, chief judge of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and to Anthony M. Kennedy, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and then as a legal adviser to the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in The Hague before joining the academic world.
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