James Pfander (federal courts, constitutional law, civil procedure) at the University of Illinois College of Law has accepted a senior offer from the law school at Northwestern University.

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Blog Emperor Caron has compiled all the news for 07-08 here.

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David Snyder (contracts, commercial law), Professor of Law at Tulane University, has accepted a senior offer from the Washington College of Law at American University.

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Peter Yu (intellectual property, communications law, comparative law), Associate Professor of Law at Michigan State University, has accepted an endowed chair on the law faculty at Drake University.

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Patricia Cain (sexuality & the law, tax) and Jean Love (remedies, civil rights, constitutional law), both chaired professors of law at the University of Iowa, have accepted senior offers from the law school at Santa Clara University.

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Mary Dudziak (USC) has collected interesting data here, and is soliciting more.  Especially interesting, as she notes, is how little role Yale plays in these placements.

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Jane Harris Aiken (clinical legal education, evidence, domestic violence, domestic law, child abuse), who is Director of the Civil Justice Clinic at Washington University, St. Louis, has accepted a senior offer from the law school at Georgetown University.

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…who have emerged, as Professor Solum now reports:  David Gamage has accepted a tenure-track job at the University of California at Berkeley, and Alvaro Santos has accepted a tenure-track job at Georgetown University.  Both had multiple offers.  The first graduate (last year) of our "emerging scholars program" Sam Buell is now on tenure-track at Washington…

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Victoria Nourse (criminal law, legislation, constitutional law, feminist legal theory) at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and Teemu Ruskola (comparative law, law & humanities, Chinese law, feminist/queer theory) at American University have accepted senior offers from the law school at Emory University.  Emory had already established itself as a major center for feminist legal theory…

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…after almost a decade of service.  The Buffalo news release is here.

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MOVING TO FRONT FROM MARCH 21 Professor Solum has begun collecting the information here.  Please be sure to follow his format for reporting the data.  Larry is a saint to do this each year, but make it easier on him by following the instructions!  And note that this year he is asking for the hires…

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Rich Hynes (bankruptcy, corporate law, contracts), Associate Professor of Law at the College of William & Mary, has accepted an offer from the law school at the University of Virginia.

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Adrienne Davis (legal history, property, Critical Race Theory) at the University of North Carolina School of Law has accepted a senior offer from the law school at Washington University, St. Louis.  We had the good fortune of having Professor Davis visit at Texas several years ago, and so I can report that, in addition to…

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Jonathan Molot (civil procedure, professional responsibility, federal courts, and administrative law) at George Washington University Law School has accepted a tenured offer from the law faculty at Georgetown University. Here’s a question:  has a GW faculty member ever turned down an offer from Georgetown?  (Let me know, and I’ll add an update.)  Georgetown, it seems,…

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Who  knew there was such a thing?  Blog Emperor Caron has the details on their migrations.

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Mary Dudziak, Professor of Law and History at the University of Southern California looks to be the only law professor to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship in this year’s competition.  She won support for a project on "How war made America in the 20th century."

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David Luban, a leading figure in legal ethics at Georgetown University, has declined the senior offer from Stanford Law School.  As a faculty member at Georgetown observed to me, after losing Mark Tushnet (constitutional law and history) to Harvard last year, retaining Luban is an especially welcome development.  (Professor Luban has also been doing some…

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Gerrit de Geest, Professor of Law and Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of Utrecht and Professor of Law at the University of Ghent, has accepted a senior offer from the law school at Washington University in St. Louis.  De Geest is a Past President of the European Association of Law and…

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MOVING TO FRONT FROM JANUARY 2, 2007:  SEE UPDATE The law school at the University of Miami has made a senior offer to tax scholar Paul Caron at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, which would include the Directorship of Miami’s well-known Graduate Tax Program. Of course, readers of this blog realize that this…

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