Joseph Landau

Joseph Landau is the 12th dean of Fordham Law School and the Paul Fuller Professor of Law. He previously served as associate dean for academic affairs from 2021 to 2024. Landau joined the faculty in 2010 as associate professor of law and has served as professor of law since 2016. He writes at the intersection of constitutional law and civil procedure, and he has long taught both of those subjects to first-year students at Fordham. He received the Fordham Law Dean’s Distinguished Research Award for 2020-2021 and Fordham Law’s Teacher of the Year Award in 2012-2013 and again in 2019-2020. In 2012, he was named one of the Best LGBT Lawyers Under 40 by the National LGBT Bar Association.