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Emily Spieler Named Dean of the School of Law
Northeastern University president Richard M. Freeland has appointed Emily A. Spieler as dean of the School of Law. She will also serve as Hadley Professor of Law. A Fulbright Scholar and leading authority on employment law and social insurance systems, Spieler will take over on July 1. She succeeds Roger Abrams, who led the law school for the past three years.
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"We are delighted that Dean Spieler has agreed to assume leadership of the School of Law," said President Freeland. "Her extensive administrative experience, her professional and personal commitment to social justice, and her practical experience in the legal profession makes her an ideal leader for our law school. We are confident that she will continue to expand the law school tradition of excellence through service."
"Northeastern University School of Law successfully combines a commitment to public service, cooperative education, an impressively high caliber of teaching and research, and a diverse student body and faculty," Spieler said. "I am delighted to be returning to Boston to contribute to this outstanding institution."
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Since 1990, Spieler has served on the faculty of West Virginia University College of Law, where she was named the Hale J. and Roscoe P. Posten Professor of Law in January 2002. Prior to joining academia, Spieler held a variety of senior positions in the public sector, including service as commissioner of West Virginia's Workers' Compensation Fund and as the state's first deputy attorney general for civil rights.
Spieler, a native of Brooklyn, has strong ties to the Greater Boston area. She graduated from Harvard (Radcliffe) College in 1969 and has been a member of the Massachusetts bar since 1974. From 1974 to 1978 she practiced law in Boston, specializing in the legal problems of women workers. She was an early member of the Cambridge-based Women's Law Collective and also served as special assistant attorney general for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health's Lead Poisoning Prevention Division.
Spieler earned her JD from Yale Law School in 1973. She has received a wide variety of honors and awards, including a 2001 Fulbright Award that allowed her to spend a semester at University College in Cork, Ireland. She is currently a member of committees of the National Academies of Sciences, the National Academy of Social Insurance, the US Department of Energy and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Spieler's research and teaching interests are in the areas of employment and labor law and social insurance programs.
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