Stephanos Bibas (criminal law and procedure) at the University of Iowa has accepted a tenured offer from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he joins one of the largest and very strongest criminal law faculty cohorts in the nation (including Claire Finkelstein, Leo Katz, Stephen Morse, and Paul Robinson).

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Story here; an excerpt: Three finalists were named in the University’s search for the new dean, but the University was unable to secure any of the candidates. Two of the candidates, Hiram Chodosh, currently the associate dean for academic affairs at Case Western Reserve University, and Gail Agrawal, currently the interim dean of the University…

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Not a welcome development!  An excerpt: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is spending millions of dollars less to operate its law school than some of its peers – a financial drawback that has stymied attempts to hire a new dean. UNC has been forced to reopen its search for a dean after…

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Stanford Law School has hired Alan O. Sykes, Jr. (international law, international trade) from the University of Chicago Law School and, as a clinical professor, Jeffrey Fisher, a partner at Davis Wright Tremaine in Seattle (who argued both Crawford and Blakely in the U.S. Supreme Court) (Fisher will co-direct Stanford’s Supreme Court Clinic with Pamela…

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Walter "Jack" Pratt, a longtime member of the Notre Dame Law faculty and a legal historian, will be the new Dean of the law school at the University of South Carolina.  The South Carolina press release is here.

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Rosa Brooks, a leading young expert in international law at the University of Virginia, has accepted the senior offer from the law school at Georgetown University, though for the next two years she will be on leave at the Open Society Institute in New York City.  Her spouse, Peter Brooks, the literary scholar, will be…

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David Partlett, Dean of the law school at Washington & Lee University since 2000, will become Dean of the Emory University School of Law, effective this summer.

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Gillian Lester (employment law) at the University of California at Los Angeles and Eric Talley (corporate law, law & economics) at the University of Southern California have accepted senior offers from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley, where they have been visiting this year.  Those are important lateral recruitments…

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Gerald Neuman (immigration law, constitutional law, international human rights, comparative law) at Columbia Law School has accepted a senior offer from Harvard Law School.  In the last three years, Harvard has now hired eight faculty laterally to the tenured ranks: Jody Freeman from the University of California, Los Angeles Jack Goldsmith from the University of…

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Susan Westerberg Prager, a former Dean of and still a professor at UCLA’s law school, has been appointed the new President of Occidental College.  A news item is here.

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Andrew Morriss, Galen J. Roush Professor of Business Law and Regulation and Director of the Center for Business Law and Regulation at Case Western Reserve University has accepted the senior offer from the University of Illinois College of Law, to start in 2007 (where he will also hold a joint appointment in the Business School). …

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Marjorie Kornhauser, a well-known scholar in the tax area at Tulane Law School, has accepted a senior offer from the law school at Arizona State University. 

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Bruce Mann (legal history) at the University of Pennsylvania Law School has accepted a senior offer from Harvard Law School.  HLS has made a strong push in legal history in recent years; recent and prospective visitors in that field include John Witt (Columbia), Michael Klarman (UVA), Mary Dudziak (USC), and William Forbath (Texas). 

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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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