Mark Yudof (constitutional law, education law), currently Chancellor of the University of Texas System, and previously President of the University of Minnesota, Provost of the University of Texas at Austin, and Dean of the Law School at Texas, has accepted appointment as President of the University of California System.  He will also hold an appointment…

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Jonathan Klick (empirical law and economics) at Florida State University has accepted a tenured offer from the University of Pennsylvania.

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Timothy Zick (constitutional law) at St. John’s University has accepted a senior offer from the College of William & Mary.

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Francis Jay Mootz (commercial law, critical legal theory) at Dickinson School of Law at Pennsylvania State University has accepted a senior offer from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

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Pretty shocking, if true!  Of course, it may just be, as Professor Lindgren says, an ‘unwitting’ error.

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Thomas Merrill, a very distinguished scholar in the fields of property, environmental, and administrative law, who moved a few years ago from Northwestern University to Columbia University, has now accepted a senior offer from Yale Law School.  As several folks have remarked to me, this is an unusual hire for Yale because Merrill actually knows…

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J.J. Koehler, a professor in the Business School at the University of Texas at Austin, who has done fascinating and important work on how juries make sense (or nonsense!) of probablistic evidence, has accepted a joint appointment in the College of Law and Business School at Arizona State University.  He joins other leading scholars at…

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The TWU press release is here.

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The law school at Chapman University has made three senior hires this year:  Michael Bazyler (comparative and international law; Holocaust studies) from Whittier Law School; Richard Redding (law and psychology, criminal law, mental health law) from Villanova University; and John Tehranian (entertainment law, intellectual property, media law, Cyberlaw) from the University of Utah.

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Glenn George (employment discrimination) and Gene Nichol (constitutional law) at the College of William & Mary have accepted offers to re-join the law faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where Nichol was Dean prior to becoming President of William & Mary, a position from which he abruptly resigned several weeks ago.

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Here.  The three finalists are:  Paul Schiff Berman from the University of Connecticut; JoAnne Epps from Temple; and Wendell E. Pritchett, who is on leave from the University of Pennsylvania while working in the Philadelphia Mayer’s office.

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Jonathan Nash (environmental law) at Tulane University has accepted a senior offer from the law school at Emory University.

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Amelia Boss, a well-known commercial law scholar at Temple University, is moving to the new law school at neighboring Drexel University, where she will be Trustee Professor of Law.  That’s quite a coup for the ‘upstart’ Drexel law school! 

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Anne Alstott (tax) at Yale Law School has accepted a senior offer from Harvad Law School.  The HLS press release is here.  (Thanks to David Lat for sending me the link.  His comments on the hire are here) UPDATE:  This is a particularly important appointment for Harvard because of its distinguished but graying tax faculty…

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Claire Dickerson (contracts, comparative law, international business transactions, corporate law) at Rutgers University, Newark has accepted a senior offer from Tulane Law School, where she is visiting this year.

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Stefanie Lindquist, a leading empirical scholar of law and courts at Vanderbilt University (with appointments in the Department of Political Science and the Law School), has accepted a senior offer from the law school at the University of Texas at Austin, where she will join several other influential scholars in this area, including Frank Cross…

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Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, well-known and leading writers on Critical Race Theory, constitutional law, and civil rights at the University of Pittsburgh, have accepted senior offers from the law school at Seattle University, where Delgado will be a University Professor (as he is at Pittsburgh) and Stefancic a Research Professor in the law school. …

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Norman R. Williams (constitutional and administrative law, federal courts), Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Law and Government at Willamette University, has accepted a tenured offer from the School of Law at the University of Oregon.

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Robert Howse (international economic law) at the University of Michigan has accepted a senior offer from New York University, where he is visiting this year.

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…from IntlawGrrls.

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Mark McKenna (intellectual property) at Saint Louis University has accepted a tenured offer from Notre Dame Law School.

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Washington University, St. Louis has made tenured appointments of Annette Appell (children and the law) from the University of Nevada at Las Vegas and Melissa Waters (international law) from Washington & Lee University.

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Trevor Morrison, a talented young constitutional law scholar at Cornell University, has accepted a tenured offer from Columbia Law School, turning down, in the process, other offers from New York University and the University of Texas, Austin.

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Christopher Bracey (constitutional law, civil rights, history of American race relations) at Washington University, St. Louis has accepted a senior offer from the law school at George Washington University.  (Professor  Bracey will be especially well-known to denizens of the blogosphere for his work on the BlackProf blog.)

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William Araiza (administrative and constitutional law) at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles has accepted a senior offer from Brooklyn Law School.  The BLS press release, which includes information on their new junior hires, is here.

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Elizabeth Hillman (military law and history, sexual orientation theory), Professor of Law at Rutgers University at Camden, has accepted a senior offer from the University of California, Hastings College of Law in San Francisco.

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