The President of Portland State University (PSU), Daniel O. Bernstine will be the new President and Chief Executive Officer of the Pennsylvania-based Law School Admission Council (
LSAC), effective July 1, 2007.
He will replace the retiring president, Philip D. Shelton, who will leave LSAC after 14 years.
Bernstine was President of the state university for the last decade. Prior to that, he was Dean of the University of Wisconsin Law School from 1990 to 1997.
Bernstine is an attorney and an expert on courts and higher education. He has authored three books and numerous scholarly articles. He has vast experience in drafting and reviewing test questions while successfully leading the National Conference of Bar Examiners.
Bernstine’s “wisdom about undergraduate education, law schools, and the practicing bar” and his qualifications as a successful “manager and academic leader” will help LSAC stride ahead, said Kent Syverud, Chair of the LSAC Board of Trustees. As for Bernstine, he summed up his move as “a good opportunity […] to do something different."
From being the son of a former janitor and sharecropper, Bernstine climbed up the academic ladder to become Dean of the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1990. He has also had his share of praise and criticism as president of Oregon’s largest state university.
Bernstine, adulated as an avant-garde fundraiser who has brought more dollars into PSU than ever before, is also criticized as making the university lose focus by being “too many things to too many people”.
Headquartered in Newtown, Pennsylvania, the LSAC administers the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) and carries out multiple other services for law schools and students. The members of LSAC, a non-profit organization, include law schools across the United States and Canada. Apart from encouraging students from the underrepresented groups to take up the legal profession, LSAC also funds wide-ranging social science research on law and legal institutions.
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