Krent named dean of Chicago-Kent College of Law
Harold J. Krent, an expert in administrative law, has been appointed dean of Chicago-Kent College of Law at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). Krent’s appointment is effective January 1, 2003.
A member of Chicago-Kent’s faculty since 1994, Krent has served as interim dean of Chicago-Kent since January 2002. His scholarship addresses the legal aspects of individuals’ interaction with government, including issues of privacy, sovereign immunity, and separation of powers. He is currently writing a book on presidential powers.
Selected after an extensive one-year search, Krent’s appointment was endorsed by faculty, students and law school overseers as well as prominent legal scholars and practicing attorneys, said IIT president Lew Collens.
“Professor Krent is not only a first-rate legal scholar and teacher but an innovative administrator,” Collens said. “He is admired by students and faculty alike for the energy and intelligence he has brought to educational initiatives both within the law school and in the larger legal and international communities.”
Krent earned his bachelors degree at Princeton University and his law degree at New York University, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif and won several legal writing awards as a law review editor. He began his legal career as a clerk for the Honorable William H. Timbers of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and as a staff attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice. After serving on Chicago-Kent’s faculty for three years, he was appointed associate dean of the law school in 1997.
“Chicago-Kent is fortunate to have an outstanding faculty, talented students, accomplished alums and a wonderful facility,” said Krent. “I look forward to working with the entire Chicago-Kent community during the coming years to make one of the nation’s best law schools even better.”
Krent is the author of more than 26 law review articles, most recently publishing articles on the president’s conditional pardon power and the U.S. Supreme Court’s current trend toward judicial nationalism, reflected of late in its willingness to second-guess the Florida Supreme Court’s interpretation of state law in the midst of the 2000 presidential election. He is an associate reporter for the Restatement of the Administrative Procedure Act, and has served as a consultant for the Administrative Conference of the United States, the National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. Justice Department, and the World Bank.
Founded in 1890, IIT is a Ph.D.-granting technological university awarding degrees in the sciences, mathematics and engineering, as well as architecture, psychology, design, business and law. IIT’s interprofessional, technology-focused curriculum prepares the university’s 6,200 students for leadership roles in an increasingly complex and culturally diverse global workplace.
