Faculty News
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Chicago Alumni & Fellows on the law teaching market, 2024-25
MOVING TO FRONT, ORIGINALLY POSTED AUGUST 12 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…
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Ten most cited law faculty in the U.S., 2019-2023
Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the ten most-cited active law professors in the U.S. for the period 2016-2020 (inclusive) (remember that the data was collected in late May/early June of 2024, and that the pre-2024 database did expand a bit since then). Numbers are rounded to the nearest ten. (Law professors not…
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Top 50 U.S. law faculties in scholarly impact, 2024
Professor Greg Sisk & colleagues at the University of St. Thomas have updated their scholarly impact rankings (last edition), looking at mean and median citations to tenured faculty scholarship for the years 2019-2023 inclusive, using fall 2024 faculty rosters as the benchmark (so, e.g., faculty on indefinite leave in government service are not counted). (Sisk…
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St. Thomas University (Miami) summarily fires tenured professor, with no notice or process
Unbelievable misconduct by the administration there.
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12 lateral moves that made faculty “take notice” during 2023-24
Based on my in-box and conversations with others, these were 12 moves that transpired this past year that were thought to be the biggest hiring coups (I used to list only ten, but this was another big year for lateral moves): *Robin Craig (environmental law, water law) from the University of Southern California to…
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Lateral hires with tenure or on tenure-track, 2023-24
These are non-clinical appointments that will take effect in summer or fall 2024 (except where noted); (recent additions will be in bold.) Last year's list is here. *Daniel Abebe (international law, foreign relations law) from the University of Chicago (where he is Vice-Provost) to Columbia University (to become Dean). *Rabiat Akanda (law &…
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Seven law professors elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
They are: Anne Alstott (Yale), Ann Carlson (UCLA), G. Mitu Gulati (Virginia), Daniel Ho (Stanford), Pauline Kim (Wash U/St. Louis), Eric Talley (Columbia), and (in the Religious Studies category) John Witte, Jr. (Emory).
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Letter from many Columbia Law faculty to the University President about the handling of protests on campus
Here. Signatories include Vince Blasi, Kimberle Crenshaw, Jane Ginsburg, Michael Graetz, Ronald Mann, David Pozen, Carol Sanger, Robert and Elizabeth Scott, and others.
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Law faculty contributions to political candidates
Notre Dame lawprof Derek Muller compiled data for the period 2017 to early 2023 (so during the Trump era), and I was surprised by how many contributed to Republicans, given the condition of that party, although this fits with the general perception of the American legal academy as conservative by global standards. Most Republican supporters…
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Congratulations to the Chicago alumni and Fellows on the law teaching market…
…who accepted tenure-track jobs. They are: Charles F. Capps ’20, who will join the faculty at Arizona State University. He graduated with Honors from the Law School, where he was Articles Editor of the Law Review. He also earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Chicago. He clerked in his native…
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Not an April Fool’s joke: Yale Law School hires an experienced and talented lawyer to the regular faculty
After being demoted to the 6th best law school in the country last year by USNEWS.COM, things seem to be changing! Jokes aside, Mr. West is very talented, but what's remarkable is that YLS hired him: a smart, articulate lawyer who knows a ton of law, and (I am told) is "conservative" (whatever that means). …
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Lawsky’s entry-level hiring report for 2024
If you've recently accepted a tenure-track job in law teaching, submit your information to Professor Lawsky here.
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University of New Hampshire Law School fires tenured professor in violation of her First Amendment and academic freedom rights
MOVING TO FRONT FROM MARCH 1–UPDATED Professor Ann Bartow, an intellectual property scholar and tenured professor, has been fired by the law school at the University of New Hampshire. As the faculty union puts it: The record is clear. The University of New Hampshire fired Professor Ann Bartow, a long-time tenured professor of law, after…
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Harvard Law Dean John Manning to become Interim Provost at Harvard…
…while torts scholar John Goldberg at HLS will become Interim Dean.
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Penn faculty hearing board recommended sanctions for Amy Wax last summer; she is appealing
MOVING TO FRONT FROM FEBRUARY 24–SEE UPDATE The recommended sanctions consist in "a one-year suspension at half pay, the removal of her named chair and summer pay, and a requirement for Wax to note in public appearances that she is not speaking on behalf or as a member of Penn Carey Law." Only the last…
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