Thomas Merrill, a leading scholar in property, administrative and environmental law, who moved from Columbia to Yale Law School just last year, has now accepted an offer to return to Columbia in 2010. That's a major coup for Columbia, which also added Michael Graetz (tax) from Yale last year. This will obviously raise again questions about whether Yale's "New Haven problem" is responsible for the unusually large number of losses lately.



My former colleagues at another university in Middle East have also been moved to online teaching indefinitely, with the students…