Miami Herald
Nearly three years after his official predecessor got abruptly fired, a move that stirred a national wave of criticism at the time, the University of Miami law school dean will step down in April. “I am stepping down as dean at the end of the month,” David Yellen, the current dean, told the Herald when reached Friday afternoon, adding he would take a one-year sabbatical and then return as a faculty member to the law school. UM President Julio Frenk abruptly pushed out the last dean, Anthony Varona, in May 2021. Frenk’s decision sparked outrage among professors, students and alumni, and prompted Varona to hire a lawyer who denounced the move at the time as “an egregious violation” of the dean’s rights. Varona is now the law dean at Seattle University, a private Jesuit Catholic institution in Washington state.
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