Professor Vincent Rougeau accepts new appointment

Notre Dame Law School faculty, staff, and students have been congratulating Professor Vincent Rougeau this week on being appointed the next dean of Boston College Law School. The highly regarded professor of contracts, real estate transactions, and Catholic social thought will be assuming his new post this summer.

Professor Rougeau joined the Notre Dame Law School faculty as a visiting associate professor in 1997 and became a tenured associate professor in 1998, after teaching as both assistant and associate professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. He served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 1999-2002. He received his A.B. magna cum laude from Brown University in 1985, and his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1988, where he served as articles editor of the Harvard Human Rights Journal.

Professor Rougeau’s most recent work has explored the role of religion in the law and public policy of pluralist, democratic societies.

Read more about Professor Rougeau’s appointment below:

• Notre Dame Law Professor Vincent Rougeau Named Dean of Boston College Law School
• Specialist on values to lead BC law school – Boston Globe
• Boston College Law names new dean – Boston Business Journal