Mary Crossley is Pitt Law’s new interim dean

Mary Crossley, John E. Murray Faculty Scholar in Pitt’s School of Law, will serve as the school’s interim dean effective July 1.

Crossley joined Pitt in 2005 as a professor of law and dean and served as dean through 2012. During that time, she developed initiatives aimed at curricular reform, innovation programming and promoting diversity.

The director of Pitt’s Health Law Program is highly regarded for her scholarship in disability and health law, with numerous articles and presentations focused on inequality in health care financing and delivery. Her book “Embodied Injustice: Race, Disability, and Health” was released by Cambridge University Press in 2022.

The Pitt Law professor is also an elected member of the American Law Institute and an appointed member of the Pennsylvania State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. She serves on the boards for AccessLex Institute and the American Occupational Therapy Association and is a long-term member of the American Bar Association, the State Bar of California and the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics.

Crossley will replace Haider Ala Hamoudi, who has served as interim dean since Amy Wildermuth stepped down to join the faculty in January. Hamoudi, a professor of law who served as vice dean before accepting the interim dean position, will begin a sabbatical at the end of June.