Focus: Nearly two dozen students, staff and faculty told The Daily that Northwestern Law has been plagued by mismanagement, a toxic work environment and a lack of transparency since Dean Hari Osofsky joined more than two years ago.
Before Osofsky even arrived at Pritzker in 2021, the decanal search process lacked transparency, several faculty members told The Daily.
Now, more than two years later, sources tell The Daily their frustrations remain, despite several complaints lodged with University officials.
While several sources said their frustrations lie directly with the dean, they don’t anticipate that a change in leadership alone will remedy the situation at the law school. Instead, institutional change is needed, they said.
“A lot of the things I experienced could’ve been avoided not just with a different dean, but with some kind of protection for administrators,” one of the dean’s former assistants told The Daily.
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Story by Jacob Wendler. Illustration by Shveta Shah.
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