Assistant to the Dean:
Shavaun O'Brien 410.837.4458
John and Frances Angelos Law Center, Room 716
EducationJ.D., University of Southern California Gould School of Law
B.A., University of Virginia
BiographyLaVonda N. Reed, J.D., was appointed dean of the University of Baltimore School of
Law effective July 1, 2024.
Prior to her appointment at UBalt Law, she was dean of Georgia State University College
of Law for three years. Previously, Dean Reed served as professor of law and associate
provost for faculty affairs at Syracuse University. In this position, she had oversight
of research and administrative leaves, awards, promotion and tenure review, policy
development and enforcement among other duties. She led initiatives to recruit and
retain a diverse faculty and created the Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence
and the Center for Faculty Leadership and Professional Development, which helped further
the work of Syracuse’s National Science Foundation ADVANCE grant designed to support
women and underrepresented minority scholars in STEM disciplines.
Her research and teaching are in the areas of wills and trusts, property, and communications
regulatory law and policy.
Prior to her appointment at Syracuse University, she was on the faculty of the Louis
D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville. She also was a judicial
clerk for the Honorable Donald W. VanArtsdalen of the U.S. District Court for the
Eastern District of Pennsylvania and practiced communications and corporate law with
the international firm of Paul Hastings LLP.
Dean Reed earned her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Southern California
Gould School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from the University
of Virginia.
