Kaye appointed associate dean for research

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Penn State Law has named David H. Kaye, Distinguished Professor of Law and Weiss Family Faculty Scholar, as its associate dean for research. 

Kaye will work with faculty and other administrators to facilitate the creation and dissemination of faculty scholarship, organize faculty colloquia on works in progress and developments in legal scholarship, and represent the law school on the University Research Council.

"Writing is a form of teaching,” Kaye says. “The Penn State Law faculty already generates an impressive body of highly informative scholarship -- textbooks, treatises, tomes, law journal articles, and more. My goal is to help maintain an environment in which every faculty member can do innovative research and writing -- not merely to impress other academics -- but to improve our understanding, and ultimately the administration and substance, of the law."

Penn State Law interim dean James W. Houck appointed Kaye to the new position. 

“David is particularly well suited to serve as our associate dean for research given his vast and influential contributions to legal scholarship and his understanding of how research can have significance beyond academia,” says Houck. “I’m looking forward to working with him to not only grow our scholarly contributions, but to expand the reach and impact of our faculty’s work.”

Kaye is an expert on scientific evidence and statistics in law. He holds degrees from MIT, Harvard, and Yale universities. His publications include 12 books and more than 170 articles and letters in journals of law, philosophy, psychology, medicine, genetics, and statistics. He has taught evidence, law and science, criminal law and procedure, constitutional law, torts, law and economics, legal philosophy, and international human rights law.