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Kathleen M. Boozang

university dean and law professor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ24852124
Source-derived summary

Kathleen M. Boozang (born April 21, 1959) is the former dean and professor of law at Seton Hall University School of Law. Boozang joined Seton Hall in 1990 after practicing law for several years. In July 2015, she became the eighth dean of Seton Hall Law. She resigned in 2022.

Career

She launched the Health Law & Policy Program (1993), which has been ranked in the top 10 of U.S. News & World Report.

Works, honors and recognition

Boozang was elected to the American Bar Foundation in 2008 and the American Law Institute in 2009.

Boozang was honored by The New Jersey Law Journal, which gave her a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016 and named her to its list of Top Women in the Law in 2018.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Kathleen M. Boozang” as university dean and law professor. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1959, 1990, 2015, 2022—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1959-04-21. The account is most persuasive where Kathleen, Boozang and university can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as university dean and law professor. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q24852124. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1959, 1990, 2015 and 2022.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  • Locating cited institutions
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This entry incorporates text from Kathleen M. Boozang” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.