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Dr. David Leebron
David Leebron was appointed president of Rice University in Houston, TX in 2004. Leebron joined Rice from Columbia University School of Law, where he was Dean from 1996 to 2004 and a faculty member since 1989. From 1983 to 1989, he was a professor of law at New York University and director of NYU's International Legal Studies Program. A member of the bars of New York State, and, although currently inactive, Hawaii and Pennsylvania, he is on the American Bar Association Standards Review Committee and the American Law Deans Association Board of Directors, and he has served on the Association of American Law Schools Committee on Nominations. Additionally, Leebron is a member of the American Law Institute (ex officio), the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Society of International Law, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and the editorial board of Foundation Press, an educational publisher. He has taught and published in areas of corporate finance, international economic law, human rights, privacy, and torts and is the co-author of a textbook on human rights. Most recently, he has written about problems in international trade law.
Photo credit: David Leebron
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