HAMDEN, CONN –– On Wednesday, Provost Dr. Debra Liebowitz emailed the Quinnipiac University community announcing that Jennifer Brown, Dean of the School of Law, will step down in June 2024.

In the email, Dr. Leibowitz wrote, “I am writing to share that Jennifer Brown has decided to step down as dean of the School of Law, effective June 30, 2024, as she looks to focus more on teaching and research… Jennifer plans to return to the faculty as a tenured professor in the School of Law for the Spring 2025 semester after taking a well-deserved sabbatical during the Fall 2024 semester.”

Dean Brown has been a member of the Quinnipiac faculty since 1994, and the Dean of the School of Law since 2013. During the early years of her deanship, she oversaw the move of the Law School from the Mount Carmel campus (now the Center for Communications and Engineering), to the North Haven Campus in August 2014. Following the move to the University’s third campus, she helped add a new curriculum to the law school by adding international law, workplace law, cybersecurity, and information privacy law.

“I think Provost Leibowitz’s statement did a great job, actually, and kind of outlining what I would consider to be some of the major accomplishments during my deanship,” Brown said to the media in a press conference Wednesday afternoon. “I really wanna emphasize that these are not my accomplishments…there was always someone else who was really actively involved in achieving the thing.” She emphasized that the “the Law Schools achievements during the last 10 years has been a group effort and not just something I did”

A phrase embedded in the School of Law by Dean Brown is one of her most proud accomplishments as dean, “The Mission of the [Quinnipiac School of Law] should be to educate ‘the whole layer,’ to understand and serve the client.” She explained that one of her most significant accomplishments is hearing students use that phrase when discussing their experiences.

When Jennifer Brown returns to campus in the Spring of 2025 as a School of Law professor following her sabbatical, she hopes to teach some of her research fields, including alternative disputes, resolutions, negotiation, and mediation. In addition to those, she also said she would be open to teaching an LGBT legal issues course.