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Colin Crawford

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Colin Crawford
16th Dean of the Golden Gate University School of Law
Incumbent
Assumed office 2021
Preceded by	Eric Christiansen (interim) Anthony Niedwiecki
24th Dean of the University of Louisville School of Law
In office May 15, 2018 – 2021
Preceded by	Susan Duncan (interim)
Succeeded by	Melanie B. Jacobs
Personal details
Born	Colin Crawford[1] (1958-11-17) November 17, 1958 (age 65)[1] Denver, Colorado, U.S.[1]
Residence	Louisville, Kentucky
Education	Columbia University (BA) University of Cambridge (MA) Harvard University (JD)
Profession	Academic administrator

Colin Crawford (born November 17, 1958) is an American academic and the 24th dean of the University of Louisville School of Law.^[2] Crawford will be the 16th dean of Golden Gate University School of Law, effective summer 2021.^[3] In 2023, he became the dean of the William H. Bowen School of Law at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

Crawford earned his Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University in 1980,^[4]aMaster of Arts degree from the University of Cambridge, and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.

On February 18, 2021, Golden Gate University announced it had hired Crawford as the new dean of its law school.^[3]

Crawford became dean of the University of Louisville School of Law on January 1, 2018. He was named Dean after a search that lasted nearly five years.^[5]

Prior to his position in Louisville, he was the Robert C. Cudd Professor of Environmental Law at Tulane University Law SchoolinNew Orleans, Louisiana from 2010 to 2017.^[6] He has also taught at Georgia State University College of Law from 2003 to 2010, Thomas Jefferson School of Law from 1997 to 2003, and Brooklyn Law School from 1992 to 1997.^[7][6]