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46 U. Tol. L. Rev. 375 (2014-2015)
The Role of the Dean in Ensuring a Sustainable Law School: Everything Comes Down to What I Learned in Land Use Planning and Sustainable Development Law

handle is hein.journals/utol46 and id is 389 raw text is: THE ROLE OF THE DEAN IN ENSURING A SUSTAINABLE LAW SCHOOL: EVERYTHING COMES DOWN TO WHAT I LEARNED IN LAND USE PLANNING AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT LAW Patricia E. Salkin* INTRODUCTION IN preparing for a presentation to a faculty on the role of the law school dean, I began to ponder where it is that one draws on the skill sets and perspectives necessary to be a good law dean, and I recalled the book, All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten.' I have sat through my fair share of uninspired, uninformed, and uncreative job talks by individuals who desired to take on the role of dean. Often these presentations failed to reveal who the speaker really was and how he or she might lead and manage. Determined to not present a similar boring recitation of how challenging things are in legal education, and how no one really has a crystal ball to see into the future, I thought it best to go back to my passion as a lawyer and scholar for the subject of land use planning and sustainable development law. This is a field I have dedicated the bulk of my professional scholarship and advocacy to and, therefore, its principles and concepts resonate with me (sometimes positively and sometimes negatively) as I strive to find the paths to continually promote the development of law in this area.2 Why not, then, consider whether all I really need to know about deaning I learned in land use and sustainable development law and policy? After all, in the classroom, I have been known to tell my students that everything about community, sense of place, and the local economy, comes down to decisions about how we plan for and ultimately use the land resources we have. The comparison between land use planning and development concepts also works well with leading a law school in a time of great reflection about the future of legal education. Successful developers tend to be out-of-box thinkers and visionaries about what their end product will be and why it will be desirable. Today, law school deans (and others) are questioning the very model of legal education that has served the profession well for quite some time, finding that it * Dean and Professor of Law, Touro Law Center. 1. ROBERT FULGHUM, ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNow I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN (1st rev. Ballantine ed. 2003). 2. See generally, e.g., JOHN R. NOLON & PATRICIA E. SALKIN, LAND USE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: CASES AND MATERIALS (8th ed. 2012). 375

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