Willamette law dean leaving for new job in Connecticut

After four years as dean of Willamette University’s College of Law, Brian Gallini is leaving for a job as the law school dean at Quinnipiac University, a private university in Hamden, Connecticut.

He will start in his new role on July 1.

Willamette plans to appoint a temporary successor and has not begun searching for a new dean of the law school, according to university spokeswoman Lauren Mulligan.

The law school was founded in 1883…