NSU Horizons Spring/Summer 2008

professionalism, and tech- nology for students from the first day of law school. More recently, Harbaugh and the law faculty collaborated on the creation of the Critical Skills Program, which assists students in developing and mastering those skills cen- tral to success in law school, passing the bar, and practic- ing law. “[Harbaugh] has been an innovator in American legal education,” said Bill Adams, associate dean for international, online, and graduate programs and a professor at the Law Center. “His early commitment to the use of technology and his promotion of the international and online educational programs were instrumental to the growth and advancement of the Law Center.” Harbaugh has also served in a wide range of legal education leadership positions, including on the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Executive Committee and the Council of the American Bar Association (ABA) Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar; as chair of the Board of Directors of Access Group, Inc., legal education’s nonprofit student loan program; and for 17 years, as the AALS Representative in the ABA House of Delegates. “Harbaugh has been one of the giants in legal education for the last 20 years,” said Richard A. Matasar, dean of New York Law School, former dean of the University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law, and a member of the Executive Committee of the American Law Deans Association. “His leadership at NSU has been extraordinary. Those who have come to know him and the law school will miss his leadership greatly but look forward to observing the next phase of his career.” A leader in the clinical education movement, Harbaugh is the co-author of a standard clinical text, Interviewing, Counseling, and Negotiating: Skills for Effective Representation , and a best-selling instructional CD, The Fundamentals of Negotiation . 13 horizons Joseph Harbaugh, dean of the Shepard Broad Law Center (left), and John Anderson, distinguished visiting professor of law (right), welcomed U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice John Paul Stevens to NSU in 2006. As director of the Practicing Law Institute’s Negotiation Project, he has shared his negotiation expertise with lawyers, business people, and government officials and numbers among his clients half of the National Law Journal ’s top 100 firms and dozens of Fortune 100 corporations. Harbaugh has also previously served as a member of the law faculties at the University of Connecticut, as well as Duke, Temple, Georgetown, and American universities. After a year-long sabbatical, Harbaugh plans to return to NSU as a faculty member. “I’m looking forward to going back to having the best title that can be bestowed on anyone in a university, and that is professor,” Harbaugh said. “Dean Harbaugh is a friend and colleague and has been an important part of my administration,” said Ray Ferrero, Jr., J.D., NSU president. “He has brought many innovative programs to the Law Center, and he will be missed. On the other hand, I am happy he is returning to a faculty position. Future NSU law students will benefit from his teaching and mentoring.” n ALAN HANCOCK IS NSU’S ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS.