Faculty News
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Lateral hires in law with tenure or on tenure-track, 2026-27
These are non-clinical/non-LRW appointments that will take effect in summer or fall 2027 (except where noted); (new additions will be in bold.) Last year’s list is here. *Yonathan Arbel (commercial law, consumer law, law & economics, AI & law) from the University of Alabama to the University of Miami. *Sherif Girgis (constitutional law & theory,…
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Chicago Alumni and Fellows on the law teaching market, 2026-27
MOVING TO FRONT FROM AUG 14 This post is strictly for schools that expect to do hiring this year. In order to protect the privacy of our candidates, please e-mail me to get a copy of the narrative profiles of our candidates who are on the entry-level market this year and participating in the FAR.…
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10 lateral moves announced in 2025-26 that made law professors take notice
Based on my in-box and conversations with others, these were 10 moves that transpired this past year that were thought to be the biggest hiring coups: *Alejandro Camacho (environmental law, natural resources law) from the University of California, Irvine to the University of California, Los Angeles (effective January 2026). *Katherine Mims Crocker (constitutional law) from…
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Lateral hires in law with tenure or on tenure-track, 2025-26 (FINAL UPDATE)
These are non-clinical/non-LRW appointments that will take effect in summer or fall 2026 (except where noted); (new additions will be in bold.) Last year’s list is here. (Link fixed.) *Ted Afield (tax) from Georgia State University to Stetson University. *Yonathan Arbel (commercial law, consumer law, law & economics, AI & law) from the University of…
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2026 Tang Prize in the “Rule of Law” awarded to…
…Professor Bruce Ackerman at Yale–an appropriate choice!
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“Law professors as plaintiffs”
A compilation, although it omits some well-known cases (such as Mullenix v. Texas, and Carson v. Texas).
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Lawsky’s Entry-Level Hiring Report for 25-26
So the final results are in, and since my earlier post, there have (happily) been many more reports of rookie hires that came in, and the total this year is over 100, but still down from last year. (There have also been additions to my laterals list, but the total is still half of what…
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“The Wit and Wisdom of Douglas Laycock”
A nice tribute by his (and my) former student, Christopher Lund, who has established himself as a major scholar in the law & religion field. (Laycock was a member of the legendary Class of 1973 from the University of Chicago Law School [which also included Frank Easterbrook, Douglas Ginsburg, and the late George Priest, among…
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Most cited legal philosophers by D-Index according to research.com (CORRECTED & UPDATED)
We’ve noted the “D-index” (an h-index for discipline-specific journals) calculated by research.com previously. (Their rankings of universities in law are pretty silly, since the faculty lists include deceasd faculty, retired faculty, and faculty who are not law professors.) They clearly don’t count law reviews for D-index, only faculty-edited journals, which is appropriate for legal philosophy.…
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The collapse of the lateral market in law schools during 2025-26
This year, the laterals list has about thirty moves, while last year there were more than 100! I assume this is an effect of the Trump war on universities, and the funding uncertainties it created, so that there was less money for hires. Professor Lawsky’s spreadsheet shows about 50 rookie hires as of now, but…
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University of Kentucky chooses federal district judge as its new Dean…
…despite the opposition of a “substantial majority” of the faculty. Oddly, a Kentucky spokesperson suggests that the judge’s opinions constitute his record of “scholarship.”
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Six law professors elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
They are: William Baude (Chicago), Alison LaCroix (Chicago), Angela Riley (UCLA), Elizabeth Scott (Columbia, emerita), Patricia Williams (Northeastern), and Gideon Yaffe (Yale [elected in the “Philosophy” section]).
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Top 10 Corporate & Securities Articles of 2025…
…via Corporate Practice Commentator: Teachers in corporate and securities law were asked to select the best corporate and securities articles from a list of articles published in legal journals during 2025. More than 440 articles were on this year’s list. Because of the vagaries of publication and indexing, some articles on the 2025 list have…
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Four law professors win Guggenheim Fellowships
They are: Justin Driver (Yale), Dov Fox (San Diego), Rick Hasen (UCLA), and Gerard Magliocca (Indiana/Indianapolis).
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If you got a rookie tenure-track job in law this year…
…please submit your information to Professor Lawsky’s Entry-Level Hiring Report!
Then my question is how many of ordinary mathematicians also qualify as artists of their profession…