Gillian Lester
| Gillian Lester | |
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| 15th Dean of Columbia Law School | |
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Assumed office January 1, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | David Schizer |
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| Born |
October 30, 1964 Maple Ridge, British Columbia |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Spouse(s) | Eric Talley |
| Alma mater |
University of British Columbia (B.Sc.) University of Toronto (LL.B.) Stanford University (J.S.D.) |
| Occupation |
Law Professor Scholar Administrator |
| Website | Gillian Lester |
Gillian L. L. Lester (born October 30, 1964) is the 15th Dean of Columbia Law School. She joined Columbia Law School on Jan. 1, 2015, as Dean and Lucy G. Moses Professor of Law. Previously, Lester was acting dean of the University of California, Berkeley School of Law where she had been a professor since 2006. Before that, she was a full professor at the School of Law of the University of California, Los Angeles.
Lester is the second female dean of Columbia Law School. Soon after taking the job, Lester told The Chronicle of Higher Education she wanted to tweak the curriculum to turn more Columbia law students into "global actors" and "entrepreneurs" who could build careers in both the private and public sectors.
Lester was born in Maple Ridge, British Columbia and later moved to West Vancouver. She is the youngest of four children born to Richard Egerton Matheson Lester, a labor lawyer, and Lois (Jensen) Lester, a teacher. She earned a B.Sc. in 1986 from the University of British Columbia, an LL.B. in 1990 from the University of Toronto, where she served as editor-in-chief of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review, and a J.S.D. in 1998 from Stanford University.
Lester began her career in the legal academy in 1994 at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law. She became a full professor in 1999. She joined the Berkeley law faculty in 2006 and in 2014 became the Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of Law and the Werner and Mimi Wolfen Research Professor. At Berkeley, Lester served as co-director of the Berkeley Center for Health, Economic and Family Security; Associate Dean for the J.D. Program and Curricular Planning; and, in 2013, Acting Dean.
She has held external appointments as the Sidley Austin Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School and the Sloan Fellow and Visiting Professor at Georgetown University Law Center, as well as short-term visiting appointments at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, the University of Chicago Law School, and Radzyner Law School at Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya in Israel.
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