Dean

The University of Minnesota Law School is thrilled to announce the appointment of William McGeveran, Gray, Plant, Mooty, Mooty & Bennett Professor of Law, as the next dean of Minnesota Law.

As dean, McGeveran will be the chief executive officer and chief academic officer of  Minnesota Law. He will provide strategic and intellectual leadership and administrative oversight for the Law School. He will also collaborate with the University of Minnesota President’s office, the Office of the Executive Vice President & Provost, and other University deans to advance the broader educational mission of the University of Minnesota.

McGeveran, who served as Minnesota Law’s interim dean for the 2023-24 academic year, brings 18 years of experience as a faculty member at the Law School, where he also served as associate dean for academic affairs from 2018 to 2022. He is passionate about Minnesota Law’s mission to provide a transformative legal education to law students and holds the deepest regard and enthusiasm for the Minnesota Law community.

McGeveran’s scholarship focuses on the law governing digital identity and privacy, ranging from trademark parodies to data security to social media. He has taught Civil Procedure, Law in Practice, Trademark Law, and Data Privacy Law. He was formerly a resident fellow at the University of Minnesota Institute of Advanced Study and a visiting professor at University College Dublin School of Law. He is an affiliated professor at the University of Minnesota’s Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communications.

He serves on the advisory boards of the Electronic Privacy Information Center and the Future of Privacy Forum and was the first reporter for the Uniform Law Commission’s Uniform Personal Data Protection Act.

McGeveran earned a J.D., magna cum laude, from New York University and a B.A., magna cum laude, in political science from Carleton College. Prior to coming to the University of Minnesota in 2006, McGeveran was a resident fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. He previously clerked for Judge Sandra Lynch on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and practiced as an intellectual property litigator at Foley Hoag LLP in Boston. Before law school, McGeveran worked in national politics for seven years including as a senior legislative aide to then-Rep. Charles Schumer.

Tim McFeeley led this search with Kahn Lee and Henry Nickerson.