Julian A. Cook III (criminal law and procedure), currently an Associate Professor at Michigan State University College of Law, has accepted a tenured offer from the law school at the University of Georgia.

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Mark Brandon (constitutional law), who is Professor of Law and Political Science at Vanderbilt University (and who was, before that, a tenured faculty member in the top-ranked Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) has accepted a Chair in the law school at the University of Alabama.  That’s a major appointment…

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Kit Kinports (criminal law & procedure, constitutional litigation) and Stephen Ross (antitrust, statutory interpretation), a couple who are professors at the University of Illinois College of Law, have accepted offers to join the law faculty at Pennsylvania State University/Dickinson School of Law at the new University Park campus (the main campus of PSU).

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The law school at Georgetown University has voted out three lateral offers, two senior, one junior.  The senior (i.e., tenured) offers are to Randy Barnett (constitutional law, contracts) at Boston University and Rosa Brooks (international law) at the University of Virginia; the junior offer (with a short fuse on the tenure decision, so it is…

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Via Law Blog Emperor Caron, I learn that a San Francisco paper has made available rather striking salary data on the highest paid University of California employees during the 2004-05 academic year.  The listing is based on "total pay" for that academic year, which includes not only salary, but also "overtime, bonuses, housing allowances, relocation…

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Margaret Jane Radin (intellectual property, Cyberlaw, feminist legal theory) will retire from Stanford Law School and take up a professorship at the University of Michigan Law School beginning in fall 2007.  She will join Rebecca Eisenberg, a longtime Michigan faculty member, and Jessica Litman, recently appointed from Wayne State, in giving Michigan a quite strong…

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Gail Agrawal, who is presently Interim Dean of the law school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (which presently has its own Dean search underway), has accepted appointment as Dean of the law school at the University of Kansas.  The KU press release is here.

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Peter Spiro (international law, foreign affairs law, immigration law), who moved from Hofstra to a chaired position in the law school at the University of Georgia in 2004, has now accepted a Chair in the law school at Temple University.  That’s the second high-profile chaired appointment for Temple recently; last year, Temple recruited law and…

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The University of Minnesota Law School has made two lateral tenure-track hires recently:  Alexandra Klass (environmental law, property) from William Mitchell College of Law, and Heidi Kitrosser (constitutional law, esp. First Amendment) from Brooklyn Law School.  In addition, Minnesota has retained intellectual property law scholar Dan Burk in the face of an offer from Cornell…

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Robert Sitkoff, a highly regarded young trusts and estates scholar at Northwestern University School of Law, has accepted a tenured offer from New York University.

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Lee Epstein, one of the nation’s leading political scientists engaged in empirical study of the courts, and her partner Nancy Staudt (tax), both professors at Washington University, St. Louis (Epstein in political science and law, and Staudt in law) have accepted senior offers from the law school at Northwestern University.  These appointments pretty clearly solidify…

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Donna Nagy (securities and corporate law) at the University of Cincinnati has accepted a senior offer from the law school at Indiana University at Bloomington. 

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Arthur von Mehren (1922-2006) The Harvard memorial notice is here.

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Christine Hurt (corporate law), currently Assistant Professor of Law at Marquette University, has accepted a tenure-track offer from the law school at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  I don’t usually announce junior lateral moves, but Professor Hurt is a UT Law grad whom I had the pleasure of advising when she first sought teaching…

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Margaret Brinig, a leading scholar in family law and law and economics who moved to Iowa from George Mason in 1999, has now accepted a chair in the law school at the University of Notre Dame.  That’s an important hire for Notre Dame, which has not had a significant presence previously in law and economics.

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This news is a bit old, but still noteworthy since I missed it when it was fresh: Peter Blanck, a leading scholar in the disability law field and in law and psychology, has left the University of Iowa for a University Professorship at Syracuse University, with an appointment in the College of Law, among other…

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For forty years, UT has enjoyed the services of Roy Mersky, whom Yale’s Blair Kauffman once called "the emperor of worldwide law librarianship," in recognition of his enormous influence in setting the standard for service and professionalism in the field, in large part through training so many other law librarians.  There is now a nice…

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Welsh White (1940-2005) The University of Pittsburgh memorial notice is here.

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Teresa Sullivan, a professor of sociology and law at the University of Texas at Austin and current Executive Vice-President for Academic Affairs for the University of Texas System, has accepted appointment as Provost at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.  Her husband, my esteemed colleague Douglas Laycock (constitutional law, remedies), has accepted an appointment in…

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Nell Jessup Newton, currently Dean of the law school at the University of Connecticut, will be the new Dean of the University of California, Hastings, from which she graduated nearly twenty years ago.  The Hastings press release is here.  Dean Newton succeeds Mary Kay Kane, a leading authority on civil procedure, who was Dean for…

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