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William Michael Treanor

William Michael Treanor is a former Dean of Fordham Law School. He graduated from Yale College summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa and from Yale Law School, where he was an Article and Book Review Editor of the Yale Law Journal. He also holds an A.M. in history from Harvard University.

Before joining the Fordham faculty in 1991, Dean Treanor served as a speechwriter to the U.S. Secretary of Education, clerk to Judge James L. Oakes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, special assistant to the Chair of the New York State  Commission on Government Integrity, Special Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia, and as Associate Independent Counsel in the Office of the Iran-Contra Independent Counsel. From 1998 until 2001, he was Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel in the U.S. Department of Justice. He testified before Congress on the applicability of the Privacy Act to the White House.

A leading constitutional historian, Dean Treanor's writings have appeared in numerous law reviews and twice he has been cited in Supreme Court opinions.