A paltry 27 percent of eligible faculty favored reappointing Dean Lolita Buckner Inniss. Meanwhile, some 90 percent of student group leaders solicited for their thoughts also objected to her keeping the job. In response, the University of Colorado Law School decided… to reappoint the dean.
At this point, Colorado Law might just be trolling its faculty and students for kicks.
More faculty explicitly voted against granting the dean another run at the post — roughly 38 percent — while a handful formally abstained and a quarter just refused to vote one way or the other. The ABA actually has a rule (Opens in a new window)against appointing deans “over the stated objection of a substantial majority of the faculty” without good cause. The school hasn’t gone into that. But Trump wants to eliminate the ABA’s status as the official law school accreditor (Opens in a new window)— presumably so he can set up Trump University College of Law if he ever leaves office. Maybe the school feels it can get in the administration’s good graces by breaching the ABA’s accreditation rules first!
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https://abovethelaw.com/2025/07/colorado-law-school-dean-reappointed-amid-mass-faculty-disapproval/
