Michele Goodwin (health law, biotechnology, torts) at DePaul University and Greg Shaffer (international law) at Loyola University, Chicago have accepted chairs in the law school at the University of Minnesota, to start in 2008.  Shaffer moved to Loyola/Chicago only last year from the law school at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

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Story here.

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MOVING TO FRONT FROM FEBRUARY 22, SINCE IT HAS ALREADY BEEN UPDATED WITH A NUMBER OF NEW HIRES. Dan Filler (Drexel) is compiling such a list here (based, in part, on news posted here, but also other sources).

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MOVING TO FRONT FROM FEB 10–SEE UPDATE Aaron Twerski, a leading torts and products liability scholar, will resign as Dean of the law school at Hofstra University at the end of the academic year, citing health reasons.  Story here. Twerski only became Dean at Hofstra in 2005, moving there from Brooklyn Law School. (Thanks to…

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Blog Emperor Caron has the details and links.  This will no doubt be a relief to the University of Michigan Law School, whose graduates have sometimes passed the Michigan Bar exam at lower rates than graduates of Ava Maria!  (Now if we could only get rid of Baylor here in Texas….)

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Here (search "Law Dean Candidate Forum").  The finalists are Edward McCaffery (USC, and current Interim Dean, who is a tax scholar); Robert Rasmussen (Vanderbilt, who works on the law and economics of bankruptcy and commercial law); Emerson Tiller (Northwestern, positive political theory); and Marcus Cole (Stanford, bankruptcy and commercial law).

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Rodney Smolla, a leading First Amendment scholar and current Dean of the law school at the University of Richmond, has been appointed Dean of the law school at Washington & Lee University.  The Washington & Lee press release is here.

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Gordon Smith (corporate law), a law professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, has accepted a tenured offer from the law school at Brigham Young University.  Professor Smith blogs about it here.

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Phillip Closius, former Dean of the law school at the University of Toledo, has been appointed the new Dean of the law school at the University of Baltimore.  Story here.  (Note the emphasis in the story given to U.S. News rankings.)

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The law school at Florida State University has made two lateral, tenured appointments:  Wayne Logan (criminal law and procedure) from William Mitchell College of Law, and Manuel Utset (corporate law, behavioral law and economics) from the University of Utah.  In addition, Florida State has also made two senior offers:  to Ronald Krotoszynski (constitutional law) at…

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Bernard Trujillo, an expert in bankruptcy and commercial law at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, has accepted a tenured offer from the law school at Valparaiso University in Indiana.

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Thus spake Professor Dorf.

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Clifford Larsen (international transactions, comparative law), Professor of Law at Washington & Lee University, has accepted a senior offer from the Bucerius Law School in Germany, to be Dean of the Master of Law of Business Program and UBS Professor of Law.

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So asks Blog Emperor Caron. Answer:  Not many, but more than Paul thinks!  (Most of the salary data he references does not include summer compensation.) ADDENDUM:  More information from Professor Caron here.  In answer to his last question:  at least for some schools, yes. UPDATE 2/14:  Current Michigan salary data from Professor Caron.

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Cheryl Block (tax) at George Washington University has accepted a tenured offer from the law school at Washington University, St. Louis, where she is a visiting professor this academic year.

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Richard Booth (corporate law) at the University of Maryland has accepted a senior offer from Villanova University.  Villanova has done a significant amount of lateral hiring the last couple of years, including David Caudill (evidence, property, postmodern legal theory) from Washington & Lee University, Penelope Petner (law & literature, criminal law, postmodern legal theory) from…

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…factual information about the legal academy and profession–such as faculty moves, new Deanships and the like–is not "gossip."   It is factual information about the legal academy and profession, information that has both value and relevance to other faculty members and current and prospective students.  (Professor Bodie aptly makes the point.) Rank speculation and chit-chat, on…

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William Marshall, a distinguished constitutional law scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has accepted appointment as the new Solicitor General of Ohio.

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Roger Dennis, Provost at Rutgers University, Camden (and, previously, Dean of the Law School there), has accepted appointment as the Inaugural Dean of the new law school at Drexel University in Philadelphia.  The Drexel press release is here.

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Douglas Gary Lichtman, a leading young expert on issues at the intersection of law and technology (including intellectual property and telecommunications) at the University of Chicago Law School, has accepted an offer from the law school at the University of California in Los Angeles, where he and his family have personal ties.  That’s a big…

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Georgetown’s memorial notice is here.  Father Drinan was a longtime member of the Georgetown Law faculty, former Dean of the law school at Boston College, as well as a former Congressman and leading human rights advocate.

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Jeremy Paul, a longtime faculty member at the University of Connecticut Law School, has been appointed as the new Dean.  U Conn’s press release is here.

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