Nell Jessup Newton
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Expertise: American Indian Law; constitutional law
Nell Jessup Newton became Chancellor and Dean and William B. Lockhart Professor of Law in August, 2006. She graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1973 and from UC Hastings in 1976, where she was a member of the Thurston Society and the Order of the Coif and served as Managing Editor of the Hastings Law Journal. After graduation from law school, Dean Newton taught at Catholic University Law School (1976-1992) and then at American University Law School (1992-1998). Prior to joining Hastings, Dean Newton served as dean of the law schools of the University of Connecticut (2000-2006) and the University of Denver (1998-2000).
Dean Newton has taught contracts, property, constitutional law and American Indian law. For 30 years she has focused her scholarship on the intersection of American Indian law with property and constitutional law, writing on tribal property rights and rights to self-government. She was the co-author of the third edition of one of the leading textbooks on Indian Law, Cases & Materials on American Indian Law, and is the editor-in-chief of Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law, the only treatise on the subject. In addition, she is the author of nearly 60 articles, ranging from newspaper editorial opinion articles to law review articles. Her law review articles have been reprinted in scholarly books on Indian law, race law, the law of reparations, and legal philosophy.
Dean Newton is active in national scholarly and educational organizations such as the American Association of Law Schools, the American Bar Association, the Law & Society Association, the Law School Admissions Council, and the National Association of Law Placement (NALP) Foundation and is a life fellow of the American Bar Foundation and the Connecticut Bar Foundation.
William B. Lockhart was the former dean of the University of Minnesota Law School, where he achieved a national reputation as a dean and constitutional law scholar. Upon retirement, he came to Hastings, serving as one of Hastings’ highly revered 65 Club faculty members. In his honor friends and colleagues created this endowed professorship, to be held by the current Chancellor and Dean.