Law: KEN RANDALL

Randall became dean of the Antonin Scalia Law School in 2020 following his success as dean of the University of Alabama School of Law. During his 20-year tenure, UA’s ranking rose from 96th to 21st on U.S. News & World Report’s Best Law Schools list. Randall also launched the first online Master of Laws degree from an American Bar Association-accredited school, leading a prominent law blogger to name him one of the nation’s nine most transformative deans of the decade.

Randall left UA in 2013 after founding iLaw Distance Education, which partnered with a quarter of the nation’s law schools to become a leader in online legal training.

A graduate of Adelphi University and Hofstra University’s Maurice A. Deane School of Law, he specializes in international law and briefly practiced at New York-based global firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. He has since earned two additional master’s degrees from Yale Law School and Columbia University School of Law and a doctorate from Columbia.

GMU’s law school has seen a sharp increase in law student enrollment, from 151 new students in 2020 to 259 in 2021. Randall attributes some of that to the school’s new part-time evening degree program.