From UNM (via Faculty Lounge):

UNM Provost Suzanne T. Ortega announces four finalists for dean of the School of Law. On campus interviews will take place late-January and early February.

The search committee is chaired by Brenda Claiborne, dean, College of Arts & Sciences. Vice chair is Laura Gómez, associate dean for faculty development, School of Law.

Gregory A. Hicks earned his J.D. in 1978 from the University of Texas. He currently serves as interim dean at the University of Washington School of Law. Previously he served as associate dean for faculty and associate dean for academic administration at the University of Washington. He teaches courses on property, water law, federal public lands and natural resources, and a seminar on land and American culture. Hicks is a member of the Washington State Bar and has served as a trustee with The Nature Conservancy and the Pacific Forest Trust.

Michael A. Olivas is the William B. Bates Distinguished Chair in Law and director of the Institute for Higher Education Law and Governance at the University of Houston Law Center. Olivas earned his J.D. from Georgetown University in 1981. He has served as associate dean for research, and associate dean for students at the University of Houston Law Center. He teaches on education law, professional responsibility, immigration law, legislation, and administrative law. In the 1990s, he served as general counsel to the Association of American University Professors. Olivas is a board member and trustee of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund.

Antoinette Sedillo López earned her J.D. from UCLA in 1982. She is currently professor of law and associate dean for clinical affairs at the UNM School of Law. She teaches courses on civil procedure, election law, family law, community property, land use regulation, and bioethics, among others. She has directed the UNM/Southwestern/Texas Tech/Universidad de Guanajuato Summer Law Institute in Guanajuato where she co-taught NAFTA and Trade in the Americas. Sedillo López has served as president of the national Clinical Legal Education Assocation. She is licensed to practice in New Mexico the District of Columbia.

Kevin K. Washburn is the Rosenstiel Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law. He teaches contracts, criminal law, Indian law, and gaming law. He earned his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1993. He previously served as the Oneida Indian Nation Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School. Washburn served as general counsel for the National Indian Gaming Commission in Washington, D.C., and before that as an assistant U.S. attorney in Albuquerque. He is licensed to practice in Minnesota and New Mexico.