Michael T. Cahill

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Michael Cahill
Education Yale University (BA)
University of Michigan (JD, MPP)
Employer Brooklyn Law School
TitlePresident, Joseph Crea Dean, and Professor of Law
Predecessor Maryellen Fullerton (interim)
Children2

Michael T. Cahill is an American legal scholar who was the president of Brooklyn Law School. He was also the former co-Dean of Rutgers Law School.

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Early life and education

Raised in Pompton Plains, New Jersey, [1] Cahill graduated from Pequannock Township High School. [2]

Cahill received a B.A. with distinction in Ethics, Politics & Economics from Yale University in 1993. [3] [4] He received his J.D. magna cum laude in 1999 from the University of Michigan Law School, and also received a master of public policy (M.P.P.) degree in 1999 from the University of Michigan School of Public Policy. [3] [5] [6] [7] In law school, he served as a note editor for the Michigan Law Review and was given a Bodman-Longley Award for 1996-1997, "in recognition of [his] "superior scholastic record" and [his] contributions to the Michigan Law Review." [8] He then served as a law clerk to Judge James B. Loken of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit from 1999 to 2000. [9] [7]

Career

He taught at Chicago-Kent College of Law as a visiting assistant professor of law from 2002 to 2003. [9] [7]

Cahill taught and worked at Brooklyn Law School from 2003 until 2016, serving as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2010 to 2013 and as Vice Dean from 2013 to 2015. [3] [9] Over that time, Cahill was involved in nearly every aspect of the school’s operation, including curricular oversight and reform, support for faculty research, admissions and financial-aid policy, budgetary planning, supervision of administrators and staff, maintenance and improvement of Law School facilities, external relations, and fundraising. [9] [3] [5]

He served as co-dean and professor at Rutgers Law School from 2016 to 2019, taking the post at 44 years of age. [10] [11] [9] [12]

Cahill returned to Brooklyn Law School in 2019 to become President and Joseph Crea Dean, as well as a tenured Professor of Law on the faculty. [9] He is the ninth dean in the law school’s 118-year history. One of his primary goals is to expand Brooklyn Law School's non-J.D. offerings to offer other programs, such as master’s degrees and certificates. [3] [13] His other goals center on ensuring the ongoing strength of the J.D. program, and emphasizing fundraising. [3] [13] During his four year tenure as dean (tied for the shortest tenure of dean in the school's history) the law school dropped almost 40 places in the U.S. News Rankings before he was replaced.

His scholarly background centers on criminal law. [9] Cahill has also written about health law and policy. He has published a number of articles and book chapters in various venues, and has co-authored three books on criminal law with University of Pennsylvania Law School law professor Paul H. Robinson: [9] the one-volume treatise Criminal Law (Aspen Treatise Series, 2d ed. 2012); Law Without Justice: Why Criminal Law Doesn't Give People What They Deserve (Oxford, 2006); and the student casebook Criminal Law: Case Studies and Controversies (Wolters Kluwer, 4th ed. 2016; with Shima Baradaran Baughman). [14] [9] [15] [16]

Personal life

Cahill lives in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn with his wife, Rosalyn Scaff [17] and two children. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "Michael Cahill Named Co-dean of Rutgers Law School in Camden", New Jersey Business, March 21, 2016. Accessed August 18, 2019. "Cahill notes that this new position represents a homecoming of sorts: he grew up in Pompton Plains, where his parents, Patricia and Lee Cahill, still reside."
  2. ↑ "Pequannock High's Finest Alums Are Honored", Home Town News, November 21, 2018. Accessed August 18, 2019. "Professor Michael T. Cahill was the next to be honored. Following high school graduation, Cahill received a B.A. from Yale University and J.D. and M.P.P. degrees from the University of Michigan, graduating magna cum laude and working on the Michigan Law Review."
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  6. ↑ "Pequannock High's Finest Alums are Honored". Home Town News; Zone 12. November 21, 2018.
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  10. ↑ "New Camden-based co-dean for Rutgers Law," Philadelphia Business Journal, March 21, 2016.
  11. ↑ "Co-dean of Rutgers Law School named president, dean of Brooklyn Law School". ROI-NJ. December 19, 2018.
  12. ↑ Lai, Jonathan (March 21, 2016). "Rutgers Law names new Camden-based co-dean". Philadelphia Inquirer.
  13. 1 2 Karen Sloan (December 18, 2018). "Brooklyn Law Poaches New Dean From Rutgers". New York Law Journal.
  14. ↑ Robinson, Paul H.; Cahill, Michael T. (2012). Aspen Student Treatise for Criminal Law. Wolters Kluwer Law & Business. ISBN   9781454807315 – via Google Books.
  15. ↑ Robinson, Paul H.; Cahill, Michael T.; Cahill, Michael T. (2006). Law Without Justice: Why Criminal Law Doesn't Give People What They Deserve. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN   9780195160154 – via Google Books.
  16. ↑ Robinson, Paul H.; Baughman, Shima Baradaran; Cahill, Michael T. (2016). Criminal Law: Case Studies and Controversies. Wolters Kluwer Law & Business. ISBN   9781454881728 – via Google Books.
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