The legal historian Thomas Gallanis at Washington & Lee University has accepted a senior offer from the University of Minnesota Law School.

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Tanya Hernandez (comparative race relations, critical race theory) at Rutgers University, Newark has accepted a tenured offer from the law school at George Washington University.  She is the second faculty member at the Rutgers-Newark law school hired away by George Washington this year; the other was Neil Buchanan (tax).

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Gary Roberts, one of the nation’s leading authorities on sports law, will leave Tulane Law School to become Dean of the law school at Indiana University, Indianapolis.  The Indiana press release is here.

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Alfred Aman, Jr., former Dean of the law school at Indiana University at Bloomington, where he is still on the faculty, has been named Dean of the law school at Suffolk University.  That’s a big catch for Suffolk.  Their press release is here.

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W.H. "Joe" Knight, Dean of the law school at the University of Washington at Seattle since 2001, will step down as Dean at the end of this academic year.  There is a news item here.  My impression, from afar, is that the Law School did much better hiring, especially at the junior level, during his…

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The story is here.

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Daniel Richman (criminal procedure, evidence, federal criminal law), a professor of law at Fordham University, has accepted a tenured offer from Columbia Law School.

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Susan Brooks, a clinical professor of law at Vanderbilt University who specializes in children’s rights, child welfare, family law, and therapeutic jurisprudence, has accepted appointment as Professor of Law at Drexel University.

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Sarah Cleveland (international law) at the University of Texas at Austin has accepted a senior offer from Columbia Law School, where she visited last year.  (She has also turned down the offer from the University of Michigan Law School.)  She is currently a visiting professor at Harvard Law School.  She’ll be missed in Austin!

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Bernard Meltzer, the distinguished labor law expert who taught for many decades at the University of Chicago Law School, and who was also a prosecutor at the Nuremburg War Crimes Trials after WWII, died this morning.  Chicago’s memorial notice is here.

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Robert H. Klonoff, an expert on complex litigation in the law school at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (and before that a partner with Jones Day), has been named the new Dean of the law school at Lewis & Clark College. The Lewis & Clark press release is here.

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Duke’s press release is here.  This is, I believe, the first time a major law school has chosen a sitting judge as Dean in at least a half century, perhaps longer.  Am I wrong?

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Clark Freshman (alternative dispute resolution) at the University of Miami Law School has accepted a senior offer from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, where he was a visiting professor in 2006.

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Via Blog Emperor Caron, I learn of this article which claims there are three finalists for the Duke Law Deanship:  Erwin Chemerinsky (Duke), Judge David Levi (N.D. Cal.), and Kyle Logue (Michigan).  (Judge Levi is the son of former A.G., Chicago Dean and President Edward Levi.) 

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Robin Wilson (family law, health law) at the University of Maryland has accepted a senior offer from the law school at Washington & Lee University, where she is a visiting professor this year.

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Jay Erstling, an expert on intellectual property who is currently Director of the Patent Cooperation Treaty, part of the World Intellectual Property Organization (a UN agency) has accepted a senior appointment with tenure as Professor of Law at William Mitchell College of Law, where he will also start an intellectual property law clinic.

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Lawrence Cunningham (corporate law) at Boston College has accepted a senior offer from the law school at George Washington University, where he will start next August.

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Keith Aoki (intellectual property, critical theory), who is currently the Philip Knight Professor of Law at the University of Oregon, has accepted a senior offer from the University of California at Davis, where he is visiting currently.

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Jim Chen, a prolific and well-known scholar in a diverse array of fields (including administrative, environmental, agricultural, constitutional, and natural resources law, as well as legislation, economic regulation, and industrial policy) at the University of Minnesota Law School, has accepted appointment as Dean of the Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville, effective…

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Noah Feldman, an expert in constitutional law and Islamic law at New York University, has accepted the senior offer from Harvard Law School.  NYU, it will be recalled, prevailed earlier this year in retaining constitutional law and voting rights scholar Richard Pildes in the face of a Harvard offer, but about a year before that,…

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Darryl Brown, a specialist in criminal law and procedure at Washington & Lee University, has accepted a senior offer from the University of Virginia School of Law, to start next fall.

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