In Pursuit of Excellence -- A History of the University of Minnesota Law School, Part V: The Lockhart Years -- A Time of Achievement and Challenge

Following the long and successful administration of Dean Everett Fraser (1920-1948), the University of Minnesota Law School\u27s fourth dean, Maynard E. Pirsig (1948-1955), presided over seven transitional years at the school. With a talent for attracting young faculty members of extraordinary quality, he did much to enhance the school\u27s tradition of excellence. But, at the same time, his administration suffered from the tensions incident to a changing relationship between the faculty and the dean. In 1955, a faculty-drawn self-survey provided the impetus for a statement of a new division of responsibility between dean and faculty, which clearly articulated both the faculty\u27s responsibility for law school policy and the dean\u27s responsibilities as leader of the faculty and executor of facultyestablished policy