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David E. Van Zandt is an American lawyer, professor, and administrator. He is currently the President of The New School, a private research university in New York City. He was previously the Dean of Northwestern University School of Law from 1995 to 2009. Van Zandt was born in Montgomery, New Jersey, and received his B.A. from Princeton University in 1975 and his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1978. He then clerked for Judge John Minor Wisdom of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Van Zandt has been a professor at Northwestern University School of Law since 1981, and was the Dean of the school from 1995 to 2009. He has also taught at the University of Chicago Law School, the University of Michigan Law School, and the University of Virginia School of Law. In 2009, Van Zandt was appointed President of The New School, succeeding Bob Kerrey. He is the first non-academic to serve as President of the university. Van Zandt is a member of the American Law Institute and the American Bar Foundation, and is a Fellow of the American Bar Association. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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Age 71 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 17 February, 1953
Birthday 17 February
Birthplace Montgomery Township, New Jersey, U.S.
Nationality United States

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2011

David Van Zandt is an American academic administrator and law professor. He served as president of The New School from 2011 to 2020. Earlier he served as Dean of Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, from 1995 to 2011. He has taught courses in international financial markets, business associations, property, practical issues in business law, and legal realism. He is an expert in business associations, international business transactions, property law, jurisprudence, law and social science, and legal education.

In 2011, Van Zandt was named the eighth president of the New School in New York City.

1985

Van Zandt joined Northwestern University faculty in 1985 and became dean in 1995. He is the second longest serving law dean in Northwestern history.

1982

He clerked for Judge Pierre N. Leval in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and Justice Harry Blackmun of the United States Supreme Court from 1982-83. He also was an associate with Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York.

1981

Van Zandt graduated from Princeton University with a BA in Sociology. In 1981, he completed his JD at Yale Law School, where he served as managing editor for the Yale Law Journal, and earned his PhD in Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

1980

He was born and raised in New Jersey along with his three siblings. In the late 1980s, he married Lisa Huestis, a friend and lawyer. The couple have two children. They moved to Chicago when Van Zandt was offered a job as a professor at Northwestern Law. After being named the 8th president of the New School, Van Zandt and his family moved to New York at the beginning of 2011.