Richard Revesz, the Lawrence King Professor of Law at the NYU School of Law, has been selected after a national and international search as the 14th dean of the School of Law. He succeeds John Sexton, who last May was tapped to be NYU’s President after 14 years as the Law School’s Dean. Professor Revesz will assume the deanship June 1, 2002.

“I am delighted to announce that Richard Revesz will be our next Dean,” Dean Sexton said. “The search process, which focused on a remarkably talented set of external and internal candidates, ratified our sense that NYU today is both one of the three or four leading law schools and a school with an enormous capacity to become even more than it is. Professor Revesz is a first-rate scholar and administrator, and he is possessed of the vision and energy to lead us to the next level.

The search for a new dean began in October, and was chaired by law professor Michael Schill. A pool of 65 candidates was reduced to 22 seriously considered candidates. Eight external candidates were interviewed; two internal candidates were considered.

“It is a great honor to be given the opportunity to lead NYU Law School, and to follow in the footsteps of Dean John Sexton, who is undoubtedly the finest law school dean in recent history,” said Professor Revesz. “As a result of the Law School’s spectacular course, we are now poised to become the nation’s leading law school. If we do things right over the next cycle, I believe that we will achieve this goal. And leading us there will be enormously exciting.”

Richard Revesz, 43 and born in Argentina, is the Lawrence King Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law. In 1979, Professor Revesz received his B.S.E., summa cum laude, from Princeton University where he majored in Civil Engineering and Public Affairs. He subsequently received an M.S. degree in Civil Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980. Professor Revesz was awarded his J.D. in 1983 from the Yale Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal.

After law school, Professor Revesz clerked for The Honorable Wilfred Feinberg of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and then for The Honorable Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. He joined the NYU faculty in 1985, was promoted to associate professor in 1988 and was granted tenure and a promotion to professor in 1990.

Professor Revesz has published over 50 articles and books in two principal areas—-environmental law and policy and administrative law. He teaches courses in Environmental Law, Administrative Law and Advanced Environmental Law. He has been active in a variety of public policy and law reform efforts during his time on the NYU faculty.