Pepperdine has announced that the faculty will be voting on Friday to send to the university administration its recommendations for a new Dean to replace the departed Ken Starr (who resigned in June to assume the Presidency of Baylor University). The five dean finalists are:
- Richard L. Cupp (John W. Wade Professor of Law, Pepperdine)
- Robert P. George (McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton)
- Russell K. Osgood (former President, Grinnell; former Dean (and Tax Prof), Cornell)
- L. Timothy Perrin (Vice Dean and Professor of Law, Pepperdine)
- Deanell Reece Tacha (Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, 10th Circuit; former Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs and Professor of Law, Kansas)
