Robert B. Ahdieh has served as dean of the Texas A&M University School of Law since 2018, in addition to his recent appointments as Texas A&M University’s Vice President for Professional Schools and Programs and Chief Operating Officer of Texas A&M – Fort Worth. A graduate of Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs and Yale Law School, Dean Ahdieh served as law clerk to Judge James R. Browning of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit before his selection for the Honor’s Program in the Civil Division of the US Department of Justice. 

While still in law school, Dean Ahdieh published what remains one of the seminal treatments of the constitutional transformations of post-Soviet Russia: Russia’s Constitutional Revolution – Legal Consciousness and the Transition to Democracy. His work has also appeared in the Boston University, Michigan, Minnesota, NYU, and Southern California Law Reviews, among other journals. 

Dean Ahdieh’s scholarly interests revolve around questions of regulatory and institutional  design, especially in the financial arena. His particular focus has been on various non-traditional regulatory structures and modes of regulation, including those grounded in dynamics of coordination. 

He has served as a visiting professor at Columbia and Georgetown law schools, as well as at Princeton University. He has also visited at the Institute for Advanced Study, at the University of British Columbia, the University of Warsaw, and Singapore Management University, among other overseas institutions. 

Dean Ahdieh regularly appears in the Fort Worth Inc. list of “Fort Worth 400” leaders of the community. In 2023, he was awarded Downtown Fort Worth Inc.’s Innovation Trailblazer Award for his role in helping to inspire and encourage the creation of Texas A&M – Fort Worth, a several-hundred-million dollar research and innovation campus in downtown Fort Worth. Construction is now underway.