Deans of Columbia Law School:
Image | Dean | Tenure | Notes | ||
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![]() | Theodore William Dwight [1] | 1858–1891 | as "Warden", left to found New York Law School | ||
William A. Keener | 1891–1901 | ||||
![]() | George Washington Kirchwey [2] | 1901–1910 | |||
![]() | Harlan Fiske Stone | 1910–1923 | earned LL.B. from Columbia in 1898 | ||
Huger Jervey | 1923–1927 | earned LL.B. from Columbia in 1913 [3] | |||
![]() | Young Berryman Smith [4] | 1927–1952 | earned LL.B. from Columbia in 1912 [5] | ||
William Clements Warren | 1952–1970 | ||||
Michael I. Sovern [6] | 1970–1979 | earned LL.B. from Columbia in 1955. Left to become provost of Columbia University | |||
Albert J. Rosenthal [7] | 1979–1984 | ||||
Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. | 1984–1986 | left to become president of Yale University | |||
Barbara Aronstein Black [8] | 1986–1991 | earned LL.B. from Columbia in 1955. First female dean of an Ivy League law school | |||
![]() | Lance Liebman | 1991–1996 | |||
![]() | David W. Leebron | 1996–2004 | left to become president of Rice University | ||
![]() | David M. Schizer | 2004–2014 | |||
![]() | Gillian Lester | 2015–2024 | |||
Daniel Abebe [9] | 2024– |