Based on conversations with colleagues here and elsewhere, here are 14 lateral moves this past year that were thought to be particularly significant/notable:

*Jonathan Adler (environmental law, administrative law) from Case Western Reserve University to the College of William & Mary.

 

*Katharine Baker (family law, property) from Chicago-Kent College of Law/Illinois Institute of Technology to the University of Iowa.

 

*Oren Bar-Gill (commercial law, contracts, law & economics) from Harvard University to New York University.

 

*Samuel Bray (remedies, equity, constitutional law) from the University of Notre Dame to the University of Chicago.

 

*Ryan Bubb (corporate law, securities regulation, law & economics) from New York University to the University of Southern California.

 

*Devon Carbado (criminal procedure, constitutional law, Critical Race Theory) from the University of California, Los Angeles to New York University (effective January 2025).

 

*Andrew Guthre Ferguson (criminal law & procedure, evidence) from American University to George Washington University.

 

*Heather Gerken (constitutional law, election law) from Yale University (where she is Dean) to the Ford Foundation (to become President).

 

*Myriam Gilles (civil procedure, torts, civil rights) from Cardozo Law School/Yeshiva University to Northwestern University.

 

*Orin Kerr (criminal procedure, computer crime law) from the University of California, Berkeley to Stanford University (effective January 2025).

 

*Sarah Lawsky (tax, law & technology, law & philosophy) from Northwestern University to the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

 

*Bertrall Ross (election law, constitutional law, legislation) from the University of Virginia back to the University of California, Berkeley.

 

*Sarah Seo (legal history) from Columbia University to New York University.

 

*Neil Siegel (constitutional law) from Duke University to Texas A&M University.