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Posted 8/18/97
Gerald Korngold, CWRU's Everett D. and Eugenia S. McCurdy Professor of Law, has been appointed dean of the School of Law.
Korngold succeeds Michael J. Gerhardt, who resigned the deanship to develop his scholarship, pursue a number of publishing opportunities, and become involved in a variety of community activities. Gerhardt remains on the law school's faculty.
"This is a wonderful law school with excellent students, faculty, alumni, and friends throughout the community and across the country," Korngold said. "I'm looking forward to working with all of these constituencies and with the various schools and centers throughout the University to continue to prepare our students to practice law in the 21st Century."
The McCurdy Professor since 1994, Korngold joined the CWRU law school in 1987. Prior to that, he was a professor and associate dean for academic affairs at the New York Law School, and earlier was in private practice in Philadelphia.
Korngold holds a J.D. cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was an editor of the Law Review. He also holds a B.A. summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania.
His areas of teaching expertise include laws governing property, real estate transactions and finance, land-use planning, wills, trusts and future interests, and legal method. He has been named "professor of the year" three times at CWRU, and once at New York Law School. Korngold has co-authored two books and numerous articles on property and real estate law.
Korngold is an elected member of the American Law Institute and a member of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. He previously chaired the Real Property Section of the Association of American Law Schools.
From 1994-96 he co-chaired the Academic and Religious Division of the Jewish Welfare Fund drive for the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland. He is a vice chair of the Anti-Defamation League regional board for the Northern Ohio region, and a board member of the Cleveland Hillel Foundation.
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