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Finalizing Faculty Lists for Ranking Studies for 07-08

Brian Leiter

MOVING TO FRONT

Over the summer, I plan to carry out a new citation study, and in the fall, we may (finally) undertake a new on-line reputational survey.  To that end, we’ve compiled draft lists of faculty for 49 law schools that appear likely to rank in the top 35-40 by these different measures.  We may add a few more faculties to the mix, especially for purposes of a reputational survey.  The faculty lists include only academic faculty (an effort has been made to exclude clinical, adjunct, and legal writing faculty, since these studies will focus on scholarly output).  The ranking study will be per capita across the whole faculty, since many have worried that by looking only at the top quarter of the faculty in the past produced distorted results because of one or two very highly cited faculty at certain schools (e.g., Chemerinsky at Duke, or Delgado at Pittsburgh).  The draft faculty list is here:  Download law_faculty_lists_0708.rtf.  Please read the introductory paragraph explaining the criteria for inclusion in the list.  I invite faculty members at the schools in question to post corrections in the comments section below.  You must post under your name with a verifiable e-mail address and, again, post only about your own school.  Corrections would include things like faculty who are retiring or leaving, and so won’t be teaching in 2007-08; new hires for 2007-08 not already included on the lists; the mistaken inclusion of clinical or adjunct faculty or the mistaken omission of regular academic faculty; and so on.  Please post only once, and be patient, as comments may take awhile to appear.  Thank you for your assistance.

Note:  the 49 faculties listed are:  Arizona, Arizona State, Berkeley, Boston Coll, Brooklyn, BU, Cardozo, Chicago, Chicago-Kent, Colorado, Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Emory, Florida, Florida State, Fordham, George Mason, Georgetown, George Washington, Harvard, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, Northwestern, Notre Dame, NYU, Ohio State, Penn, Pittsburgh, Rutgers-Camden, Rutgers-Newark, San Diego, Southern Cal, Stanford, Texas, UC Davis, UC Hastings, UCLA, Vanderbilt, Virginia, Washington & Lee, Wash U/St. Louis, William & Mary, Wisconsin, Yale.

UPDATE:  Do NOT e-mail me the corrections, post them in the comments please!  This way it will be a matter of public record what the corrections are, and I won’t get multiple e-mails on the same point.  All changes, if they are to be incorporated, need to be posted here.  Thank you all very much for your help.

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79 responses to “Finalizing Faculty Lists for Ranking Studies for 07-08”

  1. Kenneth Simons

    Corrections to your listing for Boston University School of Law:
    1. David B. Rossman should be included. (He is a tenured faculty member who teaches in the nonclinical curriculum as well as supervising the criminal clinic)
    2. The following should be excluded from your listing:
    Baerst is deceased.
    Carter is an adjunct, with no appointment in the law school.
    D’Agostino has no appointment in the law school.
    Freehling has left the law school, and is now employed by the ABA.
    Green is no longer a member of the faculty.
    Koniak is no longer a member of the faculty.
    Silber’s is a courtesy title; he has never taught in the law school.
    “Whiteheal” should be Whitehead.
    Sincerely,
    Kenneth Simons
    Associate Dean for Research
    BU School of Law

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  2. Kenneth Simons

    Corrections to your listing for Boston University School of Law:
    1. Kevin Outterson and David B. Rossman should be included. (Rossman is a tenured faculty member who teaches in the nonclinical curriculum as well as supervising the criminal clinic)
    2. The following should be excluded from your listing:
    Baerst is deceased.
    Carter is an adjunct, with no appointment in the law school.
    D’Agostino has no appointment in the law school.
    Freehling has left the law school, and is now employed by the ABA.
    Green is no longer a member of the faculty.
    Koniak is no longer a member of the faculty.
    Silber’s is a courtesy title; he has never taught in the law school.
    “Whiteheal” should be Whitehead.
    Sincerely,
    Kenneth Simons
    Associate Dean for Research
    BU School of Law

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  3. Matt

    Since Samuel Scheffler is moving full time to NYU I suppose he ought not be on Berkeley’s faculty list.

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  4. Rick Garnett

    Dear Brian,
    With respect to Notre Dame:
    Alan Gunn has retired.
    Don Kommers’s primary appointment is in the Political Science Department.
    (Hon.) Kenneth Ripple, of the 7th Circuit, is a former tenured faculty member who continues to teach regularly.
    Best, Rick

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  5. David Bernstein

    Re George Mason: Lash is deceased. Smith, McCabe, and Schum are affiliated faculty. Robb is not a tenured member of the law school or university faculty, and doesn’t teach law students. Schwartzstein has been in the provost’s office for ten years or so, I don’t know how you “count” that.

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  6. Josh Wright

    Re George Mason (II): Kimberly Moore is no longer a faculty member (appointment to the Fed. Cir.). Michelle Boardman, Alison Hayward, Neomi Rao, and Samson Vermont should be included. Bart Wilson is also affiliated.

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  7. David Bernstein

    re George Mason (III): Ferdinand P. Schoettle is part-time (here for one semester every year).

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  8. Jim Rossi

    Regarding Florida State University:
    Wayne Logan and Manuel Utset are both full time faculty members at FSU College of Law and should be listed with our faculty.
    Sandy (Talbot) D’Alemberte (professor and president emeritus) has an office at and continues to teach at the law school. At a minimum he should be listed as a part time faculty member.
    John Yetter and Charles Ehrhardt have each taken emeritus status as of Fall 2007, but each also will continue in service teaching a course a year at the law school. They should be listed as part time faculty members.
    We also have courtesy faculty affiliations with Bruce Benson (economics) and John Scholz (political science).
    Thanks.

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  9. Grace Renshaw

    Regarding Vanderbilt University:
    Pauline Aranas is at USC since 2002; Assistant Professor of Law Martin Cerjan now directs Vanderbilt’s Massey Law Library.
    Nita Farahany’s last name is misspelled
    Donald J. Hall and Thomas R. McCoy are now emeritus; both retired this spring.
    Jennifer F. Reinganum’s last name is misspelled
    Larry D. Soderquist is deceased (Fall 2005)
    Ingrid Wuerth (now at Cincinnati) will join Vanderbilt’s faculty in Fall 2007.
    We also have courtesy faculty affiliations with William G. Christie (management), Mark A. Cohen (management), Andrew F. Daughety (economics), Stefanie Lindquist (political science), Ronald S. Masulis (management) and C. Neal Tate (political science)

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  10. Ethan Leib

    My name is spelled incorrectly. Even Hastings itself does it from time to time. It is Leib, not Lieb.
    Jeff Leftsin’s name is also spelled incorrectly. It is Leftsin, not Lefstein.
    I believe Mary Kay Kane is retiring, effective next year — but you might double check.

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  11. Kim Ferzan

    Hi Brian,
    Anne V. Dalesandro is the Librarian at Rutgers Camden. If you are not including clinicians, I wonder whether you intended to include librarians.
    Best,
    Kim

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  12. Larry Kramer

    Corrections for Stanford Law School:
    Larry Marshall has a regular academic appointment, and while he directs our clinical program, he also teaches civil procedure and various seminars and continues to publish scholarship.
    Barbara van Schewick will be joining the faculty as a new tenure-track appointment. Barbara has an LLB/PhD in Computer Science and works in communications law, antitrust law, and cyberlaw/internet policy.

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  13. Jeff Gordon

    Corrections for Columbia:
    Subha Narasimhan has retired and should no longer be listed.
    Debra Livingston and Jerry Lynch, though both federal judges, continue as professors and teach part time. On the Chicago precedent of Easterbrook, Posner, and Wood, they should be listed as “part time” faculty.
    Alice Kessler-Harris should be listed as “affiliated faculty.”

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  14. Paul Stephan

    At UVA, Graham Lilly, Dick Merrill and Bob O’Neil have retired. We will miss them.

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  15. Mark Weinstein

    There may be other corrections for USC, but here are two:
    (1) Mark Weinstein is an affiliated faculty member (does regular teaching in Law School, but a voting faculty member)
    (2) it is Shmuel (not Schuel) Lesem (his first name is not where one davens!)
    Mark Weinstein

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  16. Mark Weinstein

    correction to previous posting, I am NOT a voting faculty member in the Law School

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  17. Adam Hirsch

    Florida State University:
    We do not have a “Charles D. Luke” on our faculty. It’s a typo: The correct name is Charlene D. Luke.

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  18. Evan Caminker

    Corrections for University of Michigan Law School:
    * Two faculty should be added to the list: Laura Beny and Nicholas Howson
    * Hynes should be spelled Hines
    * According to your criteria, neither Hathaway nor Simpson should be listed with the qualifier “part-time”
    * Dagan is no longer a part-time faculty member.

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  19. Eric Muller

    Re: UNC
    Paul Hardin is retired.
    Kevin Haynes will be teaching as a visitor but does not appear to meet the criteria of the list to be counted.
    Carol Brown, currently at Alabama, is joining the UNC faculty in 2007-08.

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  20. Avery Katz

    A few more Columbia corrections, all misspellings. Correct spellings are as follows: Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Petros C. Mavroidis, Paul S. Appelbaum, W. Bentley MacLeod.

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  21. Eric Muller

    Further re: UNC
    When I commented earlier, I neglected to mention that Adrienne Davis remains on the UNC faculty through the end of the fall semester of 2007.
    More importantly, I neglected to mention that at UNC, our tenure standards state the same requirements for tenure-track clinical faculty as for tenure-track “classroom” faculty.
    So, while I here offer no opinion on the question of whether clinical and legal writing faculty at other schools should be among your “counted,” I am confident that under UNC’s standards for tenure, your UNC list should include Deborah Weissman, Tamar Birckhead, Tom Kelley, and Alistair Newbern.

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  22. Grace Renshaw

    Additional corrections at Vanderbilt:
    Paul Edelman, Ellen Wright Clayton and Carol Swain have secondary appointments.

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  23. Kerry Abrams

    At UVA: Leslie Kendrick is joining our tenure-track faculty, but is delaying her arrival for a year to clerk for Justice Souter, so she will not be with us next year.

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  24. Tom Gallanis

    Some corrections, effective July 1:
    Washington & Lee
    –David Zaring has moved to Wharton’s Department of Legal Studies
    –Montre Carodine has moved to U. of Alabama Law School
    –Donald Smythe has moved to Cal Western School of Law
    Ohio State
    –Barbara Snyder has moved to become president of Case Western Reserve University

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  25. Laura N. Gasaway

    At the University of North Carolina, most of our clinic teachers are tenure-track and have the same scholarship requirements as other faculty.
    To the UNC list, please add the following:
    Deborah Weissman, Professor, tenured
    Tom Kelly, Associate Professor
    Tamar Birckhead, Assistant Professor
    Alistair Newbern, Assistant Professor

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  26. Scott Altman

    Larry Simon will be moving to 1/2 time status in 07-08 in anticipation of retiring.
    Albert Brecht is Associate Dean for Information Technology and head of our law library. Perhaps he is not appropriate for inclusion in this list.

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  27. Eric Muller

    Re: UNC (yet again)
    Sorry for these piecemeal updates. It now occurs to me that Anne Klinefelter, the new director of our law library, should be on the list, as she is also on the tenure track under the same tenure standard as applies to all other tenure-track faculty members.

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  28. Steve Schooner

    Some corrections from George Washington University Law School:
    Phyllis Goldfarb will join us from Boston College;
    It’s David FONTANA (not David Fontanai);
    Shi-Ling Hsu is no longer with us; he’s at UBC; and
    Dalia Tsuk is now Dalia Tsuk Mitchell.

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  29. Laura A. Heymann

    Corrections for William & Mary:
    1) James E. Moliterno is missing from the full-time faculty list; please also add Angela M. Banks (who joined us this spring) and Vivian E. Hamilton (who will join us in the fall from West Virginia).
    2) Tim Sullivan is now emeritus, and Dick Williamson has retired.
    3) Nate Oman’s first name is Nathan, not Nathaniel.
    4) Mitchell Reiss is currently serving as Vice Provost for International Affairs.
    Many thanks.

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  30. Kathryn Hendley

    Regarding Wisconsin:
    1. New hires for 2007-08 who were excluded: Alexandra Huneeus; Mitra Shirafi
    2. Mistaken omission of faculty (who are teaching during 2007-08): Gerald Thain; David Trubek; Frank Tuerkheimer
    3. Part-time faculty: Victoria Nourse (holds appointments at UW and Emory; she will be teaching at UW during the fall 2007 semester; note she should also be listed as part-time at Emory). Boa Santos should be moved from the category of affiliated to part-time faculty. He is a regular on-going visitor to UW from abroad.
    4. Faculty listed as full-time who should be listed as affiliated: Donald Downs; Mark Suchman (note that he is listed in both areas, but should only be in the affiliated category); Andrew Weiner
    5. Misspellings: Professor Ossorio’s first name is Pilar, not Piloar.

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  31. Brian Leiter

    Emeritus faculty are excluded from the faculty lists. Is Nourse going to be part-time at Wisconsin and Emory on an on-going basis, or is that just for this coming year, at which point she is going to Emory?
    Thanks.

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  32. Mark Weinstein

    at USC, Shmuel is Leshem, not Lessem. My bad.

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  33. Michael Madison

    For Pittsburgh:
    Darryll Jones has left Pittsburgh in favor of Stetson.
    George Pike and Jean Stefancic are neither tenured nor in the tenure-stream.
    Mark Nordenberg is technically a tenured member of the law faculty but has not taught at the law school or published academic work in more than a decade; he is the former Dean of the school and since 1995 has served as the Chancellor of the University.
    Michael Madison
    Associate Dean for Research
    University of Pittsburgh School of Law

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  34. Laura N. Gasaway

    I posted the names of the tenure and tenure track clinical faculty earlier today and now have additional corrections to the listing for the University of North Carolina.
    Please add:
    Carol N. Brown (yes, we do have both a Caroline and a Carol Brown)
    Melissa B. Jacoby
    Anne Klinefelter
    Please delete:
    Paul Hardin
    Kevin Haynes
    Please correct the spelling from my earlier posting to:
    Thomas A. Kelley III
    Thanks,

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  35. Michael Madison

    Re-reading the post (which refers to “academic faculty,” I should clarify that Jean Stefancic’s appointment at Pittsburgh is an academic one; she is Research Professor and Derrick Bell Scholar.
    Michael Madison

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  36. Jim Rossi

    Two more items have been mentioned to me by some colleagues for Florida State University:
    First, to echo Kim Ferzan’s comment, Faye Jones is FSU’s law librarian.
    Second, if you intend to provide a comprehensive listing of “affiliated” faculty for other departments, FSU has a number of additional entries. In addition to the courtesy faculty I mentioned in my earlier comment (Bruce Benson in Economics and John Scholz in Political Science), we have “courtesy appointment” affiliations with Gary Kleck in criminology, Terence Coonan in criminology, R. Mark Isaac in Economics and Sally Hadden in History. All of these except for Kleck are currently listed on FSU’s web site and Kleck should be added soon.

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  37. Laura N. Gasaway

    Please add William P. Marshall to the UNC list of faculty. Bill will be on leave next year serving as Solicitor General of Ohio, but he remains on our faculty and will return to us.
    Thanks,

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  38. Larry Garvin

    A few corrections for Ohio State:
    1. Add Gregory Travalio and Annecoos Wiersema.
    2. Delete Douglas Cole and Barbara Snyder.
    3. Shift Gregory Caldeira to affiliated faculty, as his primary appointment is in political science. Also, please correct the spelling of his last name (not Caldiera).

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  39. Scott

    For Michigan:
    Jim Hines’ name is misspelled.
    Thanks.

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  40. Michael Perry

    About the Emory list. (1) Robin Mills Schreiber, the director of our library, has retired, effective this summer. (2) Liza Vertinsky (JD, Harvard; PhD, Harvard [Economics])is a recent, entry-level hire and should be added to the list.

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  41. John Applegate

    For Indiana-Bloomington, please add Kevin Collins and Luis Fuentes-Rohwer. Please delete Roger Dworkin (retired), Len Fromm (full-time dean of students), Perry Hodges (retired).

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  42. Darian Ibrahim

    For Arizona:
    Add: Kenney F. Hegland
    Delete: Michael K. Block, Gary D. Libecap, Bruce Sales
    Dean L. “Lueck” (not “Luecle”) has a primary appointment in the Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics

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  43. Nell Newton

    Geoff Hazard is definitely full-time, tenured faculty at Hastings; he taught 5 courses in 2006-07, including a full-year civil procedure course.

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  44. Michael Herz

    Re. Cardozo:
    Without wading into the normative questions, I note that Lela Love, who is missing from your list, like Barry Scheck (who is on the list), teaches primarily in a clinic, but is a member of the tenured faculty and not denominated “clinical professor.” (Professor Love recently switched from “Clinical Professor of Law” to “Professor of Law,” with tenure.)
    William Schwartz is a University Professor; strictly speaking his appointment is not in the law school, although that is where he does all his teaching.
    Lynn Wishart is the librarian and does not hold a tenured or tenure-track position.
    One more lateral addition expected but not yet official; I will post when it is.
    Misspellings: Rick Bierschbach, Max Minzner, Eric Pan, Julie Chi-hye Suk.

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  45. Lesley McAllister

    Here are a couple corrections for University of San Diego:
    1) Lesley McAllister and Orly Lobel joined the full-time faculty in August 2005.
    2) Laura Adams retired in June 2006.

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  47. Theresa Newman

    Here are corrections to your listing for Duke Law School:
    Both Paul D. Carrington and William A. Reppy, Jr. should be added to the list of Faculty. The only sense in which they are “emeritus” is that they gave up their chairs. Both teach (at least) a half-time load and are regular, voting members of the faculty, not emeritus faculty members.
    Francis McGovern is half-time. Like Carrington and Reppy, he is a regular, voting member of the faculty.
    Doriane L. Coleman should also be added to Faculty, since she is on the tenure track (and, in fact, was just awarded tenure).
    Joel L. Fleishman has a joint appointment with the public policy school and, perhaps more importantly for your purposes, does not teach in the law school.
    Neither James E. Coleman, Jr. nor Richard A. Danner should be listed in Faculty, since they are not tenured or on the tenure track.
    Our incoming Dean, David Levi, is coming directly from the judiciary, so it may not make sense to include him in your citation survey.
    Joost Pauwelyn should also be deleted from the Faculty list, since he has (sadly for us) accepted a teaching post at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva and thus will not be on our faculty next year.
    Neither Charles Clotfelter, nor Stanley Hauerwas, nor Tracy Lewis teaches in the law school. The other affiliated faculty teach in the law school at least occasionally (although Wes Cohen and Peter Fish did not teach in the law school this past academic year).
    Finally, you misspelled Jedediah Purdy’s name.
    Theresa Newman
    Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

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  48. Kate Silbaugh

    To add to Ken Simons comments, you’ve mispelled Kristin Collins.
    Katharine Silbaugh
    Professor of Law
    BUSL

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  49. Larry Solan

    From Brooklyn Law School, a few corrections:
    Nelson Tebbe will join our faculty laterally.
    Brian Comerford is retiring.
    Norman Poser is retiring.
    Stacy Caplow is a tenured member of the faculty and should be included, although she is also the director of clincial education.
    Sara Robbins died last December in a tragic accident.

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  50. R. Michael Cassidy

    Brian. Please update the Boston College Law School faculty list as follows. Add Filippa Anzalone, Kenneth Kersch, and Diana Pullin. Greg Kalscheur’s name is mispelled (it should be “r” instead of “n”). Thanks. Mike Cassidy, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

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  51. Sam Bagenstos

    Brian,
    For Wash. U., Susan Appleton’s middle name is misspelled (it’s Frelich), as is Carl Minzner’s last name. Also, our tenured and tenure-track faculty who teach clinical courses are expected to write. So Peter Joy (who has a number of recent and forthcoming law review publications) should be added, as should Karen Tokarz.

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  52. Clay Gillette

    Here are some NYU corrections:
    Philip Alston is full-time, voting member of the faculty, not part-time.
    Ronald Dworkin is a full-time, voting member of the faculty, not part-time.
    Peggy Cooper Davis is a full-time member of the academic faculty.
    Troy McKenzie has just joined our faculty at the entry level.
    James Eustice is now emeritus.
    Paul Chevigny has just retired.
    Part-time faculty, in that we expect they will visit on a repeat basis from judgeships or other schools, include Harry Edwards, Dan Rubinfeld, Richard Epstein, Geoffrey Stone, and Moshe Halbertal.
    Thanks.

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  53. Brian Leiter

    Thanks, Clay. But Ronald Dworkin is in residence only one semester per year, and barely doing any teaching when he is there. So there is no sense in which he is full-time, unless the arrangement has now changed. Alston was splitting between NYU and UCL. Has that changed?

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  54. John C. P. Goldberg

    The following list of changes to your initial list of Vanderbilt Law School’s faculty supersedes the changes identified in two previous postings by Grace Renshaw. Please use the information below and not the information contained in the Renshaw posts. Apologies for any inconvenience.
    John Goldberg
    Associate Dean for Research
    Add:
    Rebecca Brown (will remain at Vanderbilt for AY 07-08)
    Ingrid Wuerth (recently hired from Cincinnati)
    Remove:
    Pauline Aranas (not at Vanderbilt)
    Donald Hall (retired)
    Thomas McCoy (retired)
    Jennifer Reinganum (Econ. Dep’t; not teaching in law)
    Larry Soderquist (deceased)
    D. Don Welch (non-tenured/non-tenure-track)
    Add as Part-Time Faculty:
    Jennifer Hill (University of Sydney; 1/2 time at Vandy)
    Reclassify / Add as Affiliated Faculty:
    Ellen Wright Clayton (reclassify)
    Paul Edelman (reclassify)
    Stefanie Lindquist (add) (Vanderbilt Poli. Sci. Dep’t)
    Carol Swain (reclassify)

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  55. davidbernstein

    More George Mason: Eric Claeys has joined the faculty, and Tyler Cowen of the Economics Dept. teaches a law school class annually, though I don’t think he has an “official” affiliation.

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