Dean and Professor of Law. Dean Solomon earned his B.A. in
American history at Wesleyan University in 1968 and his M.A. in history
at the University of Chicago in 1972. In 1976, he earned his J.D. at
the University of Chicago, where he also was awarded his
Ph.D. in history in 1986. After graduation from law school, Dean
Solomon was a law clerk for Chief Judge George Edwards of the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He subsequently joined the
American Bar Foundation as an associate director and became editor of
the American Bar Foundation Research Journal. Dean Solomon began his teaching career in 1978 at the University of Chicago Law School. He is author of The History of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 1891-1941, as well as several articles that have appeared in such books as The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States.
He is coeditor of a book on the transformations of the American legal
profession, to which he contributed an article on the history of
professionalism. Prior to joining Rutgers School of Law–Camden in
1998, Dean Solomon served as associate dean for academic affairs and
administration at the Northwestern University School of Law. He is
involved actively in the American Society for Legal History and the
Organization of American Historians.
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