Congratulations to Dean Andrew Guzman

I’m pleased to note that Andrew Guzman is leaving Berkeley Law to become Dean of USC’s Gould School of Law (see here for the USC announcement, and here for Berkeley’s take).

Andrew’s a renowned scholar of international law, with major works on international trade, regulation, investment and public international law, including some seminal work on using rationale choice theory to explain the international legal order.  I’m deeply indebted to his scholarship on bilateral investment treaties (this one in particular) and soft law for influencing my own work.  Plus, to top it all off, he’s found time over the years to guest blog for us a few times.

Congratulations to Andrew — it’ll be good to have another international lawyer in a major leadership position in U.S. legal education.