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Dr. Nuthamon Kongcharoen, LL.M. ’07, has been named Dean of Chiang Mai University Faculty of Law in Thailand. She was teaching at Chiang Mai before she came to IU McKinney for her Master of Laws degree and returned there to pursue her teaching career.

Dean Kongcharoen comes from a family of educators. Her father graduated from Thammasart Law School in Thailand but did not practice law. Instead, he became a professor at Chulalongkorn University; her grandfather also was a professor there. Other members of her extended family also worked in education.

After teaching for five years at Chiang Mai Law, Dean Kongcharoen wanted to expand her areas of expertise. She wanted to pursue law and society, human rights, and learn more about research methodology. After completing her LL.M. at IU McKinney, she returned to Chiang Mai Law and resumed her teaching career. She counts Professor Florence Wagman Roisman’s Law and Social Change course, her legal research and writing class, and Professor George Edwards’ advice and counsel as some of the most memorable things about her time at IU McKinney. It was her first time to study abroad, and the experience led her to pursue a Doctor of Juridical Science degree later.

Dean Kongcharoen received her LL.B. from Chulalongkorn University, where she also received an LL.M. She completed her Ph.D. in Law at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. Her expertise is in environmental law, human rights, and public law.

In her new role, Dean Kongcharoen plans to promote gender equality in all aspects of her administration, she said. She plans to continue her law school’s mission of encouraging students to have a concern for society as a whole that they can carry forward into their careers.