Lee Bollinger will become the 19th president of Columbia University in June 2002. He comes to Columbia from the University of Michigan, where he was president for six years. A legal scholar whose primary interests are free speech and the First Amendment, Bollinger has also served as Dean of Michigan Law School and Provost of Dartmouth College. Bollinger is a graduate of the University of Oregon and the Columbia Law School, where he was an articles editor of the Law Review. After serving as law clerk for Judge Wilfred Feinberg on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and for Chief Justice Warren Burger on the United States Supreme Court, he joined the faculty of the University of Michigan Law School in 1973. In 1987, he was named the Dean of the Michigan Law School, a position he held for seven years.