Morant to head Wake Forest School of Law as dean
Wake Forest University School of Law will soon have a new dean: Blake D. Morant. Morant will take over on July 1 from the present incumbent, Robert K. Walsh, who intends to begin teaching full-time. Morant currently works for Washington and Lee University School of Law, where he is associate dean for academic affairs and a faculty member. As a teacher, scholar, and administrator, Morant has contributed immensely to Washington and Lee University and its law school in the 10 years he has spent there. He has had nearly three decades of experience as an attorney and has held distinguished leadership positions in legal education in the past. Morant has also distinguished himself as an able administrator, an attorney, and an officer in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps. Apart from being a member of the editorial board of the American Association of Law Schools' Journal of Legal Education, Morant is a member of the Commonwealth of Virginia Gender Bias Task Force. He teaches on the topics of contracts, administrative law, and communications law.
Two students from the Washington University in St. Louis School of Law's Civil Justice Clinic—Olivia Bradbury and Sarah Wilhite—have been working on a domestic violence case for Shirley Lute, a 76-year-old victim who finally walked out of Chillicothe Prison in Missouri last week. Lute was freed as a result of strenuous efforts put forth by professor Jane Aiken as well as Bradbury and Wilhite. Lute was serving a prison sentence for her role in the murder of her abusive husband, who displayed extreme barbarism throughout their marriage. Attorney Stephen Ryals of the Missouri Battered Women's Clemency Coalition and other students and faculty participating in the clinic have also fought relentlessly for seven years to secure Lute's freedom. Bradbury feels blessed "to have had this real-world experience through the clinic while in law school" that has made her "realize the importance of working for justice because it really can happen."
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