Dave Hoffman (Temple) has details here.  Already, the leading figure in the Tulane Philosophy Department has left because of the Katrina disaster. Faculty recruitment and retention, together with student recruitment and retention, will surely be crucial issues for Tulane over the next year or two.  Assuming there are no more flooding fiascos, I would expect…

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…has been updated again.  Some of the moves you will have read about here, others are new.

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Francesco Parisi (comparative law, international law, European Union law, law and economics), who is currently Director of the distinguished Law and Economics Program at George Mason University, and who is a hugely prolific and widely cited author in a variety of fields, has accepted a senior offer from the law school at the University of…

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The University of Minnesota Law School has made three senior appointments:  Thomas Cotter (intellectual property) from Washington & Lee University (Cotter moved to Washington & Lee only recently from the University of Florida); Claire Hill (corporate law, law and economics) from the Chicago-Kent College of Law; and (to a half-time position) Robert Stein (trusts &…

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So claims this story.  (The story implies the Arts & Sciences at Harvard needs to be "shaken up," but I know of no evidence suggesting that is the case.  Unlike Harvard Law School, which had a history of ferocious appointments battles and lack of tenure standards, Arts & Sciences as a whole at Harvard has…

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Baylor law professor Melissa Essary (employment law, torts) has been named the new Dean of the School of Law at Campbell University in North Carolina.  The Baylor press release is here and the Campbell release here.  (Thanks to Jeff Watters for the heads up.)

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Long-time faculty member Kevin Cole (criminal law and procedure), who is the current Interim Dean at the University of San Diego School of Law, has been named the new Dean, succeeding Daniel Rodriguez, whose aggressive efforts at faculty recruitment and retention clearly established the school as having one of the top 25-30 faculties in the…

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Jeremy Waldron, who has made many important contributions to political and legal philosophy, and who is currently a University Professor at Columbia Law School, has accepted a senior offer from New York University School of Law.  He is the third senior faculty member to move downtown in the last year.  His move will also help…

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UNC has posted an unusually candid announcement here on the Law School’s homepage: You may have heard by now that Professor Erwin Chemerinsky has declined Carolina’s offer to be the next dean of the School of Law.  I deeply regret that this is the case, but I also want to reassure everyone that we are…

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A first draft is here; note that it does not distinguish between tenured and tenure-track lateral moves.

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Fordham Law School has made two tenured, lateral appointments:  Grainne de Burca (European Union Law) from the European University Institute in Florence, and  Sean Griffith (corporate) from the University of Connecticut School of Law.  In recent years, Professor de Burca has been a visiting professor at Columbia, Michigan, and Toronto, while Professor Griffith visited at…

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Marc Miller (criminal law and procedure) at Emory Law School has accepted a senior offer from the University of Arizona Rogers College of Law, where he is visiting this year.  This caps a big year for the relatively small Arizona faculty, which also added at the senior level Carol Rose (environmental law, property) from Yale…

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Gregory Shaffer (international law), currently Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, has accepted appointment as the first holder of the Wing-Tat Lee Chair in International Law at Loyola University-Chicago School of Law.

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Cynthia Estlund (employment and labor law) at Columbia Law School has accepted the senior offer from New York University School of Law.  She is the second senior faculty member to decamp to NYU in roughly the last year.  One additional senior Columbia Law School faculty member is also entertaining an offer from NYU at the…

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Hiram Chodosh, who is currently Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the law school at Case Western Reserve University, has been named the new Dean of the law school at the University of Utah.  The Utah press release is here.

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Eduardo Penalver (property, law & religion), a tenure-track professor at Fordham and a visiting professor this year at Yale Law School, has accepted a mid-level untenured (but tenure-stream) post at Cornell Law School.

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Professor Solum is now collecting data on entry-level hires; see here for the instructions about how to report information. UPDATE:  Dan Filler (Law, Alabama) proposes to do the same for lateral hiring, since I will be limiting my coverage to schools that figure in my law school rankings, as noted previously.

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Mitu Gulati, whose teaching and research range widely over corporate law, securities regulation, employment law and discrimination, among other areas, has accepted a senior offer from Duke Law School; he is currently Professor of Law at Georgetown.

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Mark Tushnet (constitutional law and history, Critical Legal Studies), longtime member of the Georgetown law faculty, has accepted the senior offer from Harvard Law School. This is turning into the year of very high-profile lateral moves.  Tushnet is the most-cited member of the Georgetown faculty, and one of the most-cited law professors in the U.S. …

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A student reader writes with the following reasonable query: As a law school hopeful participating in the current application cycle, I read your Law School Reports with interest. I’m especially intrigued by your characterization of Mark Tushnet’s possible move from Georgetown to Harvard as a "huge loss" for Georgetown. Could you be a bit more…

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John Parry (constitutional law, civil rights, criminal law), a tenured associate professor of law at the University of Pittsburgh, has accepted a tenured post at Northwestern School of Law at Lewis & Clark College, where he is currently visiting.

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An update on the earlier post about three Georgetown offers:   Randy Barnett (constitutional law, contracts), currently at Boston University, has accepted the offer from Georgetown; and Derek Jinks (international law), currently at the University of Texas at Austin, has declined the Georgetown offer, and so will remain (happily!) at Texas.

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Paul Caron has made it available, though note that Lempert’s salary is for 12 months, the others are for 9 months.  Comparison with the earlier UVA and Berkeley data is a bit tricky, since some of the UVA figures were, I believe, for 9-month periods, others (the majority) for 12-months.  More of the Berkeley data…

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Ellen Podgor (criminal law, white collar crime, international criminal law) at Georgia State University has accepted an appointment at Stetson University in Florida, where she will be Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Distance Education.

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Harvard Law School has made a tenured offer to Mark Tushnet–leading figure in constitutional law, legal history, and Critical Legal Studies–at Georgetown University.  That would be a huge loss for Georgetown, if he goes.  On the other hand, Georgetown recently hired his daughter, Rebecca Tushnet (intellectual property) away from New York University, where she had…

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Roderick Hills, Jr. (constitutional law, local government law, education law) at the University of Michigan Law School has accepted the tenured offer from New York University School of Law.  That’s certainly a strong hire for NYU, and a loss for Michigan–though Michigan is otherwise having a great year of its own in lateral hiring (Radin,…

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Robert Scott (contracts, commercial law), the former Dean at the University of Virginia School of Law, and Elizabeth Scott (family law, juvenile justice, property) have accepted permanent, senior offers from Columbia Law School, where they have been visiting part-time the past several years.  That’s a major appointment for Columbia, and a real loss for UVA. 

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Constitutional law scholar Mark Brandon has decided, for personal reasons, to remain at Vanderbilt, and so will not take up a Chair at the University of Alabama as reported earlier.

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