The University of St. Thomas School of Law’s Holloran Center for Ethical Leadership in the Professions is pleased to announce the appointment of Louis Bilionis, Professor of Law and Dean Emeritus at the University of Cincinnati College of Law as a Fellow of the Holloran Center. Professor Bilionis will play a major role at the Center in terms of strategic planning, research, and outreach to deans, faculty, and staff interested in the professional formation of students.
Prof. Neil Hamilton, Director of the Holloran Center, emphasized “We are very excited that Lou is joining the Holloran Center as our first Fellow based outside of the University of St. Thomas. In terms of helping deans, faculty, and administrators to understand the importance of both fostering the professional formation of each student and creating a professional formation curriculum and culture within a law school, Lou is world-class.”
Louis D. Bilionis is Dean Emeritus and Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. He received his A.B. from the University of North Carolina in 1979 and his J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1982. A nationally recognized scholar in constitutional law and criminal procedure, he taught at the School of Law at UNC-Chapel Hill from 1988 until 2005, where he was the Samuel Ashe Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law. He assumed the deanship of the University of Cincinnati College of Law in 2005 and served two terms as dean, concluding in 2015. While the dean at UC, he developed and taught Becoming a Professional: Exploring Skills and Transition into Practice – an experimental collaboration with the University of North Carolina School of Law, the Center for Creative Leadership, and practitioners that focuses on leadership and the formation of a student’s professional identity.
