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Theresa Beiner, the first non-interim female dean at the William H. Bowen School of Law at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, will step down from that role effective July 1, 2023, and return to a faculty position.
The Voices page carried two pieces on the same day this week that contended their authors did not believe it was antisemitism for the Bowen Law School dean at the University of Arkansas Little Rock to tell Jewish Professor Robert Steinbuch he could no longer use guest lecturers so he could attend the annual High Holy Jewish days.
We, current and former members of the central Arkansas Jewish legal community, are speaking out against what we believe to be false and public accusations of antisemitism made against Dean Theresa Beiner of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Bowen School of Law by Robert Steinbuch, a Jewish and tenured professor at the law school.
The Dec. 18 column by Mike Masterson in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, "ADL supports professor," contains a quote that misrepresents ADL's (Anti-Defamation League) words and involvement on an issue at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock's Bowen School of Law.
You'll likely recall the recent controversy in the University of Arkansas at Little Rock's Bowen Law School when the plans of Dean Theresa Beiner and a retiring professor and defender of Bill Clinton, John DiPippa, to rename a richly endowed professorship in constitutional law after the former president were discovered.