Transformative Law Deans

I couldn't help noting that among the nine law school Deans that Brian Leiter characterizes as "transformative" during the past decade, at least two (Syverud and Van Zandt) were expressly noted for building a "strong empirical studies presence." The tally goes to three (of nine) if one construes (as one objectively should) the description of Hurd's decanal tenure at Illinois ("cutting edge of interdisciplinary work in multiple areas") as a clear--albeit indirect--reference to her efforts to enhance that faculty's capacity for empirical legal research. As Brian's post correctly notes, the actual number of plausibly "transformative" Deans exceeds (but surely includes) the nine highlighted. I also strongly suspect that the correlation between the list of transformative Deans and a law school's capacity for serious empirical work is both positive and robust.