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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Gregory Mitchell (behavioral law and economics) at Florida State University has accepted a tenured offer from the University of Virginia. 

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Fifteen years after turning down Jessica Litman for tenure, the University of Michigan Law School has now made her a tenured offer.  In the interim, Professor Litman has taught law at Wayne State University, and become recognized as a leading expert on copyright law and other aspects of intellectual property. UPDATE:   Professor Litman has accepted…

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W. Kip Viscusi (law and economics, torts, products liability), who Directs the Empirical Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School and may be best-known outside the academy for his work on behalf of the tobacco companies in the smoking litigation, and his wife Joni Hersch, who is currently an adjunct professor at Harvard (and was…

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The University of Toronto Faculty of Law has chosen Mayo Moran, currently an Associate Professor there, as its new Dean.  The University news item is here.  I’m afraid Professor Moran is unknown to me, so I’ve no idea what the significance of this appointment is.  Comments are open, if anyone has insight.

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Story here.  I had earlier reported on academic freedom issues involving Professor Bradford, though this latest turn of events does make me wonder about these allegations and whether they really had merit.

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Dean Slabach’s letter to the Texas Wesleyan community is here.  At least judging by faculty hires, Dean Slabach served Texas Wesleyan well.

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It’s now official.  Bill Powers, Dean extraordinaire of the UT Law School, will be the next President of the University of Texas at Austin, come February 1.  I have written previously about what an outstanding Dean he has been, so it makes me sorry, indeed, to lose him in the law school, though very glad…

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Leading young tax lawyer David Weisbach at the University of Chicago Law School has turned down the tenured offer from Harvard Law School.

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Legal historian John Witt at Columbia Law School has turned down the tenured offer from Harvard Law School. 

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Constitutional theorist Frank Michelman at Harvard Law School has received the Phillips Prize in Jurisprudence from the American Philosophical Society, the nation’s oldest learned society.  The HLS press release is here.  Previous recipients have included Bruce Ackerman, Joel Feinberg, John Rawls, Ronald Dworkin, Louis Henkin, Karl Llewellyn, Lon Fuller, and Willard Hurst.  (As the list…

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