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CPIP Welcomes Ken Randall as Next Dean of Scalia Law School

the word "Mason" set up outdoors on campus with people walking behindGeorge Mason University has announced that Ken Randall will be the next Dean of Antonin Scalia Law School, beginning on December 1, 2020.

CPIP Executive Director Sean O’Connor welcomed the news: “We couldn’t be happier with the selection of Ken Randall as Dean-Elect. He cares deeply about the continued success of CPIP and is no stranger to innovation and commercialization. He and I have already developed a great working relationship, and CPIP endeavors to support his Deanship in any way we can. We also thank Dean Henry Butler for his outstanding leadership and look forward to working with him as a faculty colleague and Executive Director of the Law & Economics Center.”

Dean Randall has a proven track record as an effective administrator and innovator. He served as the Dean of the University of Alabama School of Law for twenty years, taking the school from 96th to 21st place in the U.S. News & World Report law school rankings. The school likewise rose to 7th place as the best public law school under his watch. Dean Randall is also the President and Founder of iLaw, a market leader in legal distance learning that has partnered with 30 graduate programs and worked alongside 25% of the accredited law schools.

Dean Randall is an accomplished scholar. He holds four law degrees: a J.S.D. and LL.M. from Columbia Law School, an LL.M. from Yale Law School, and a J.D. from Hofstra Law School, where he served as editor-in-chief of the Hofstra Law Review. He has authored a book on international law that was published by the Duke University Press, and his law review articles have appeared in many top journals.

The Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property congratulates Dean Randall on his appointment and welcomes him to the Scalia Law family. His rigorous academic mind, strong leadership skills, and expertise in online learning bring together the ideal skill set to take our law school to new heights. We very much look forward to working with him in the near future.

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CPIP Announces Leadership Transitions

CPIP logoARLINGTON, Virginia – August 22, 2018 – The Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property (CPIP) announced today that Matthew Barblan, CPIP’s Executive Director, will leave the center this month to join the Association of American Publishers (AAP) as Vice President, Public Policy. “It has been an amazing journey working with such wonderful colleagues to build CPIP from the ground up over the past five years,” said Barblan. “I’m deeply grateful to my friends at CPIP and Scalia Law for making the center’s success possible, and I look forward to following CPIP’s growth and influence for years to come.”

Beginning on August 27, 2018, CPIP founder Adam Mossoff will become Executive Director of the center. “As a founding member of CPIP’s leadership team, Matt was absolutely essential to the success of the center over the last five years,” said Mossoff. “I will miss very much my day-to-day interactions with Matt at Scalia Law, but I’m looking forward to continuing to engage with him at future CPIP events on IP policy in his new role in representing the publishing industry.”

As part of the transition, longtime CPIP friend and senior scholar Sean O’Connor has joined CPIP as Director of International Innovation Policy. O’Connor will be an integral part of CPIP’s leadership team, focusing on law and policy issues regarding innovation and entrepreneurship, with a particular focus on international contexts.

“I’m excited about the future of CPIP, and it is a great pleasure to welcome Sean to the team,” said Henry N. Butler, Dean of Antonin Scalia Law School. “On behalf of the Scalia Law community, I also want to thank Matt for everything he has done over the past five years to take CPIP from idea to reality and build it into the successful center that it is today. Matt has been a great colleague and friend to the law school, and we wish him all the best in his new role at AAP.”

About the Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property

The Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property (CPIP) at Antonin Scalia Law School is dedicated to the scholarly analysis of intellectual property rights and the technological, commercial, and creative innovation they facilitate.

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