The CLS news item is here.  Prior to his leadership of the LDF, Shaw also taught law for several years at the University of Michigan.

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Hiroshi Motomura (immigration law) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has accepted a senior offer from the law school at UCLA.

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Here.

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Marion Crain (labor & employment law, feminist legal theory) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has accepted a senior offer from the law school at Washington University, St. Louis.

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Story here.  Vanderbilt is, like Emory, one of those wealthy private universities that underperforms as a major research university, with only a handful of its departments and schools ranking even in the top 20 in the U.S. (the Law School being one).  Will Chancellor Zeppos be able to take Vanderbilt to the next level?  Time…

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Kenji Yoshino (constitutional law, civil rights) at Yale Law School has accepted a senior offer from the law school at New York University.

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Dan Burk, a prolific and influential scholar in the intellectual property area at the University of Minnesota, has accepted an offer to join the new Law School at the University of California at Irvine.  With Burk, Chemerinsky, and Fisk as the first three tenure-stream academic faculty, Irvine currently has a per capita rate of scholarly…

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Howard Erichson (civil procedure, complex litigation, legal ethics) at Seton Hall University has accepted a senior offer from the law school at Fordham University, where he is currently visiting. Rafael Gely (labor and employment law) at the the University of Cincinnati has accepted an endowed chair in the Law School at the University of Missouri,…

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The UVA press release is here.

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Since Harvard and Chicago are much in the news this week, at least in legal circles, my colleague Martha Nussbaum at the University of Chicago kindly invited me to share some remarks about her decision to decline the offer from Harvard Law School, as well as the offer from Brown University.  Bits and pieces of…

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Here.  Many of these appeared here, but not all.  (By the way, my "policy" on posting lateral moves is pretty simple:  I only do those that involve a more with tenure, and I only post it if it is confirmed by the candidate himself or herself, or by the hiring institution.  If I don’t post…

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Lyman Johnson, a corporate law scholar and the Robert O. Bentley Professor of Law at Washington & Lee University, will join the faculty at the University of St. Thomas School of Law (Minnesota) as the Laurence and Jean LeJeune Distinguished Chair in Law.  In coming academic years, Johnson will spend one semester at St. Thomas…

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Here.  They are Paul Schiff Berman from the University of Connecticut and Kevin Johnson from the University of California at Davis.

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Michael Livingston (Rutgers-Camden) has thrown his hat in the ring.

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It is with very mixed feelings that I must report that my great colleague Cass Sunstein at the University of Chicago has accepted the senior offer from Harvard Law School.  (We can’t win ’em all!)  But the good news (for us Chicago [or Chicago-to-be] folks) is that, as Cass told me, he will be keeping…

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Yale Law School has voted out an offer to my old friend Scott Shapiro (legal philosophy, philosophy of action), who is Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.  Students thinking about JD/PhD programs should keep an eye on what happens here:  Shapiro’s departure will be a big blow for Michigan…

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Here.  They are:  Neil Cogan, the current Dean at Whittier; Raymond Nimmer, currently Interim Dean at Houston; Linda Greene, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison; and Craig Nard, a law professor at Case Western Reserve University.

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As usual, Blog Emperor Caron has the scoop, though my guess is these figures do not include summer salaries.

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The MSU press release is here.

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News story here and statement by President Gene Nichol here.  This is pretty embarrassing for William & Mary, and I imagine many faculty and students there are outraged (faculty and students at other state universities in Virginia should be worried too!).  Nichol, who was previously Dean of the Law School at the University of North…

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I am particularly pleased to report that Martha Nussbaum (ancient philosophy, political philosophy, ethics), who holds appointments in the Law School, Philosophy Department, and the Divinity School at the University of Chicago, has declined the senior offers from Harvard University and Brown University.  I look forward to working with her in making Chicago the destination…

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The Law School at Rutgers University, Newark has made two senior hires this year:  Carlos Ball, a leading scholar writing about gay rights and sexuality and the law, who is currently at Dickinson School of Law at Pennsylvania State University (and, before that, taught for many years at the University of Illinois); and Stuart Green,…

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The WVU news item is here.  The finalists are:  Marion G. Crain at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (who was previously a member of the WVU law faculty); Mary J. Davis at the University of Kentucky; H. Marshall Jarrett, a WVU Law alum who is counsel for professional responsibility in the U.S. Department…

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Story here; the three finalists to be Dean at the Michigan State University College of Law are:  Frederic White, the current Dean of the law school at Golden Gate University; Suellyn Scarnecchia, current Dean of the law school at the University of New Mexico; and Joan Howarth, a law professor at the University of Nevada,…

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Story here.  The finalists are Paul Mahoney (corporate law) and Rip Verkerke (employment and labor law).  Both obvious and excellent choices from within the ranks, and both will, for reasons recently noted, have their work cut out for them.

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