A. Benjamin Spencer has made history by becoming the new dean of the oldest law school in America – The William & Mary Law School.
Currently, a professor of law at the University of Virginia, Spencer, an acclaimed civil procedure and federal court expert, is the first African American dean of any school at the University since its start 241 years earlier, including the law school.
According to W&M Law School, apart from being dean, Spencer will also serve as the Chancellor Professor of Law at W&M.
“William & Mary is thrilled to welcome Ben Spencer as our next dean of the law school,” said President Katherine A. Rowe.
Spencer graduated from the Harvard Law School in 2001 and as a member of the esteemed Harvard Law Review, he received the Judge John R. Brown Award for Excellence in Legal Writing and won the ABA Section of Antitrust Law Student Writing Competition.
