Announcing the Interim Dean of Georgetown University Law Center

Dear Members of the Georgetown University Community:

I write to announce that Joshua Teitelbaum, Ph.D., J.D., David Belding Professor of Law, will serve as the Interim Dean of Georgetown University Law Center and Executive Vice President, beginning July 1, 2025. Professor Teitelbaum also holds a courtesy appointment as a Professor of Economics.

He will take on this responsibility at the conclusion of Dean William M. Treanor’s 15 years of exemplary service as Dean of Georgetown Law and Executive Vice President at Georgetown, a time of innovation and growth at our Law Center.

Over the past few months, I have engaged our Georgetown Law faculty to understand their priorities for interim leadership and the future of the Law Center. While we plan for our search for the next leader of Georgetown Law, we are fortunate to have Professor Teitelbaum as the Interim Dean.

A member of our University community since 2009, his scholarly interests focus on decision theory and the interplay between microeconomics and the law. Between 2015 to 2017, he served as Associate Dean for Research and Academic Programs at the Law Center. And, in 2019, he was one of two Georgetown Law faculty recognized as a Williams Research Professor.

The co-editor of the Research Handbook in Behavioral Law and Economics and a Fellow at the Georgetown Center for Economic Research, he has received a National Science Foundation grant for the study An Empirical Investigation into the Nature of Risk Preferences.

He serves as an Editor of the International Review of Law and Economics and has been widely published in journals such as the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Journal of Legal Studies, and the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies.

Prior to his time at Georgetown, he clerked for Judge Richard M. Berman of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. He held a previous academic post at Cornell Law School as a Visiting Assistant Professor and worked at Cahill Gordon & Reindel in New York, practicing corporate and securities law. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Cornell University and his J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Please join me in thanking Professor Teitelbaum for taking on this new role and for his commitment to service.

Sincerely,

Robert M. Groves
Interim President