Law Dean to Serve as Provost at Indiana University

Lauren Robel, dean of the Indiana University Maurer School of Law in Bloomington, has been named interim provost of Indiana University. The current provost, Karen Hanson, is leaving the university on January 31 to become provost at the University of Minnesota.

Dean Robel is a graduate of Auburn University in Alabama and a summa cum laude graduate of the Indiana University School of Law. She has been on the faculty at Indiana University since 1985 and has been dean of the law school since 2003. Robel is president-elect of the Association of American Law Schools.