Morant, Howard honored at W&L

There’s good news and bad news for Blake Morant at Washington & Lee. The good news is he’s been named the inaugural holder of the Roy L. Steinheimer, Jr. Professorship.  The bad news is that he’s also going to take over as associate dean for academic affairs in 2006.  [Ed. note: We’re grateful that some good people take this job, but we wouldn’t wish it on a dog.  Even one we didn’t like.]  Morant, who earned his B.A. and J.D. at Virginia, joined the W&L team in 1996, after having taught at Toledo, Michigan, and American.  In his pre-academic life he served for several years in Army JAG, was in private practice, and served as Assistant General Counsel of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.

There’s no downside, however, for his colleague Margaret Howard, who’s been named Law Alumni Association Professor of Law.  Howard, who’s also a bankruptcy scholar of note, earned a J.D. from Washington University and an LL.M. from Yale, and taught at St. Louis University, Emory, North Carolina, Duke, Wash U, and Harvard, before joining the W&L faculty in 2001.