Lawrence Gene Sager (born 1941) is a former dean of the University of Texas School of Law. He holds the Alice Jane Drysdale Sheffield Regents Chair. Sager, who joined the Law School faculty in 2002, is the 13th dean in the Law School's 123-year history. He is best known for his theory of underenforcement. Sager graduated from Pomona College in 1963 and from the Columbia Law School in 1966. He taught for more than 25 years at New York University School of Law, where he was instrumental in transforming the NYU faculty into one of the best in the nation. At Texas, he has also been deeply involved with the Law School's successful faculty recruitment efforts, which include luring corporate law expert Bernard Black from Stanford Law School in 2004 and health law scholar William Sage from Columbia Law School in 2006. He served as chair of the Law School's Appointments Committee during the 2005–06 academic years. Sager has also taught as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, Princeton University, Boston University School of Law, UCLA School of Law, and University of Michigan Law School. Sager is the author of two books: Justice in Plainclothes: A Theory of American Constitutional Practice (Yale University Press, 2004) and, with Christopher Eisgruber, Religious Freedom and the Constitution (Harvard University Press, 2007). Controversy Sager rose to prominence as a legal scholar while teaching at the New York University (NYU) School of Law. Along with NYU's John Sexton, Sager has been credited as one of the chief architects of New York University Law School's precipitous rise in the national rankings during the 1990s. Sager joined the University of Texas at Austin (UT) School of Law faculty in 2002 and was appointed dean in 2006. In 2006, Sager was appointed dean of the law school. In writing about Sager, Ronald Dworkin said: "Sager is subtle, fast and deep . . . You should hire him." During his tenure, Sager "made important advancements" including raising nearly $80 million in donations, hiring 16 tenure and tenure-track faculty members, establishing a dual-degree program with a Mexican law school and launching a scholarly center focusing on global energy, environmental and arbitrational issues." Sager resigned from his post in December 2011 after being asked to resign by then-University of Texas President William Powers Jr. While Powers did not specify the exact reasons for requesting Sager's resignation, the Texas Tribune reported