Dean

Miriam

H.

Baer

Miriam H. Baer is the Dean and President and Professor of Law of California Western School of Law. She takes the helm of California Western's administration after having spent 17 years as a faculty member at Brooklyn Law School, including the past three years as Vice Dean. 

Dean Baer’s scholarship, which focuses on organizational wrongdoing in public and private settings, has twice been selected for the prestigious Stanford-Yale-Harvard Junior Faculty Forum. She has published work in the Columbia Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, Texas Law Review, Virginia Law Review, Minnesota Law Review and many other fine journals, and her book, Myths and Misunderstandings in White-Collar Crime (Cambridge 2023) has been discussed in numerous podcasts and academic book reviews. 

Prior to joining Brooklyn’s faculty in 2008, Professor Baer spent two years as an Acting Assistant Professor in New York University School of Law’s Lawyering Program. Before entering academia, she was an assistant general counsel for compliance with Verizon and an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York, where she focused on white collar criminal prosecutions. She also practiced as a litigation associate with Cravath, Swaine & Moore and was a law clerk to Judge Jane Roth of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.​