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Rev. Robert B. Lawton, S.J., Ph.D. (born May 3, 1947) is an American Jesuit and the 14th President of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. He also holds tenured professorships in both the Classics and Archaeology Department and the Theological Studies Department of LMU. Lawton taught Hebrew and Aramaic at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome from 1982 to 1984. He also served as the Dean of Georgetown College, the liberal arts and sciences college of Georgetown University.