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Several top law schools in Southern California recently named deans who came from outside their own faculty ranks, a strategic departure from those chosen in past years. Law school leaders attributed the shift to a desire for change and an opportunity to recruit faculty members. An outside dean "always brings a new perspective and can look at things afresh," says Robert Rasmussen, who arrives at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law next month from Vanderbilt University Law School.