Professor Named Associate Dean for Academic Affairs for Law School
January 15, 2008
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Jane C. Murphy, professor in the University of Baltimore School of Law, former director of the school's Clinical Education Program and founder of its Family Law Clinic, has been named associate dean for Academic Affairs for the School of Law. Dean Phillip J. Closius announced Murphy's appointment today, after a reorganization of the school's former Office of Student Affairs and its Office of Academic Affairs. These areas are now combined and under the direction of the associate dean. Murphy will retain her title of professor. She will report directly to the dean.
Murphy has been a member of the faculty at UB since 1988, rising from assistant professor to full professor, founding the Family Law Clinic in 1989, conducting scholarship on paternity, domestic violence, family mediation and other topics in family law, co-leading the mediation clinic and serving on a number of committees and councils in support of the School of Law. She earned the University System of Maryland's 2004 Award for Faculty Excellence and was the first recipient of UB's Presidential Faculty Award in 2004. Murphy also received the 2004 Daily Record Leadership in Law Award, the 2003 Benjamin L. Cardin Distinguished Service Award and the law school's Full-Time Faculty Outstanding Teaching Award in 1996. She was named one of the Daily Record's Top 100 Women in Maryland in 1999.
Murphy received a bachelor of arts, magna cum laude degree from Boston College in 1975, and a law degree from New York University in 1978.
The University of Baltimore is a member of the University System of Maryland and comprises the School of Law, the Yale Gordon College of Liberal Arts and the Merrick School of Business.