President and Dean California Western School of Law | San Diego, California We are pleased to announce that California Western School of Law has selected Miriam Baer to serve as its next President/Dean. Her appointment is effective July 1, 2025.Baer, currently the Vice Dean and Centennial Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, will succeed Sean M Scott. At Brooklyn Law School, Baer taught and authored the 2023 book, “Myths and Misunderstandings in White-Collar Crime” (Cambridge University Press), as well as numerous articles and book chapters on whistleblowing, corporate surveillance, and federal enforcement.Prior to entering academia, Baer was an assistant general counsel for compliance with Verizon and a federal prosecutor in Manhattan, where she developed expertise in investigating and prosecuting white-collar crime. Baer earned her A.B. in Politics at Princeton University and her J.D. from Harvard Law School.You may read the full press release here. Julie Filizetti and Timothy McFeeley led this search with Rafael Escobedo.
