Professor Oren Gross Appointed Associate Dean of Academic Affairs 

Professor Oren Gross has been appointed Minnesota Law’s next associate dean of academic affairs, starting this summer.

Gross, the Irving Younger Professor of Law, is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of international law and national security law. He is also an expert on the Middle East and the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Gross holds an LL.B. degree magna cum laude from Tel Aviv University, graduating first in his class and serving on the editorial board of the Tel Aviv University Law Review. He obtained LL.M. and S.J.D. degrees from Harvard Law School while a Fulbright Scholar.

Gross was a member of the faculty of the Tel Aviv University Law School in Israel from 1996 to 2002. He has taught and held visiting positions at Harvard Law School; Princeton University; Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law; The Max Planck Institute for International Law and Comparative Public Law in Heidelberg, Germany; the Transitional Justice Institute in Belfast (while a British Academy visiting professor); Queen’s University in Belfast; the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain); and Brandeis University.

Gross has received numerous academic awards and scholarships, including a Fulbright scholarship and British Academy and British Council awards.

Gross’s work has been published extensively. His articles appeared in leading academic journals such as the Yale Law Journal, Yale Journal of International Law, Michigan Journal of International Law, Texas International Law Journal, Minnesota Law Review, Florida Law Review, Cornell International Law Journal, and others. His book, Law in Times of Crisis: Emergency Powers in Theory and Practice, co-authored with Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2006 and was awarded the prestigious Certificate of Merit for Preeminent Contribution to Creative Scholarship by the American Society of International Law in 2007. He also co-edited with Professor Ní Aoláin the volume, Guantanamo and Beyond: Exceptional Courts and Military Commissions in Comparative Perspective, which was published by Cambridge University Press in 2013.

In 2017, Professor Gross was awarded the Stanley V. Kinyon Tenured Faculty of the Year Award

Gross will succeed Professor William McGeveran, who has served in the post since 2018.

In announcing Gross’ appointment, Dean Garry W. Jenkins praised McGeveran and thanked him for his service. “Throughout the truly unprecedented and relentless demands of the pandemic, Professor McGeveran has kept this Law School moving forward and our mission on track, all with humor and compassion,” Jenkins said.