UNC Law Dean Nichol to be New President of William & Mary

Gene Nichol, Jr., Dean of the law school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (and before that Dean of the law school at the University of Colorado at Boulder--and, as it happens, a 1976 graduate of UT Law), has been appointed the new President of the College of William & Mary (where he was, previously, a law professor).   The College's press release is here.  Nichol (whose academic specialties are constitutional law and federal courts) appears (to an outsider) to have been a successful Dean at both schools, significantly improving the faculty at each institution during his tenure.