The 2008 Law Faculty Lateral Moves List
Updated as of April 27 and moved to the top. Other related posts include current dean searches and 2008-09 visitors. A slightly outdated list of laterals, by school of departure, is here.
I'ved noted the newest changes in red. If you have entry level hiring news, make sure to alert Larry Solum. His request for information, a particular format, is here. As always, thanks to all my fellow bloggers - including Brian Leiter, Paul Caron, and Paul Secunda, among others - who have provided substantial portions of this data. Please alert me to any other changes, misses or mistakes.
It strikes me that it's time to start organizing this year's law faculty lateral moves list. Paul Secunda's great series of posts at Co-op (here, here, here, here, and here) inspired me to get the list posted. As always, I rely on others to provide information for me to share. Many thanks to Brian Leiter et al for their efforts putting some of this information into the blogosphere. Inevitably this initial list will be radically incomplete - and perhaps contain errors. I apologize in advance. Please email me at danielmfiller@gmail.com with any additional info.
Alabama
Ron Krotoszynski from Washington & Lee.
Heather Elliott from Catholic.
American
Robert Tsai from Oregon.
Arizona
Kevin Washburn from Minnesota.
Arizona State
J.J. Koehler from Texas (business school).
Baltimore
Garrett Epps from Oregon.
Brooklyn
Derek Bambauer from Wayne State.
William Araiza from Loyola L.A.
New Winnie Taylor from Cornell.
Buffalo (SUNY)
Stuart Lazar from Thomas Cooley.
UC Berkeley
New Mark Gergen from Texas.
UC Davis
Dennis Ventry from American.
UC Hastings
Elizabeth Hillman from Rutgers - Camden
UC Irvine
Erwin Chemerinsky from Duke (to be dean).
Catherine Fisk from Duke.
Dan Burk from Minnesota.
Grace Tonner from Michigan.
UCLA
Hiroshi Motomura from North Carolina.
New Gerald Lopez from NYU.
Chapman
Richard Redding from Villanova.
Michael Bazyler from Whittier.
John Tehranian from Utah.
Chicago
Brian Leiter from Texas.
New Omri Ben-Shahar from Michigan.
New Tom Ginsburg from Illinois.
CUNY
Richard Storrow from Penn State.
Columbia
Trevor Morrison from Cornell.
Connecticut
Steven Davidoff from Wayne State.
Cornell
Michael Dorf from Columbia.
Sherry Colb from Rutgers-Newark.
Laura Underkuffler from Duke.
Creighton
Eric Chiappinelli from Seattle (to be dean).
Drake
Stacey Tovino from Hamline.
Drexel
Amelia Boss from Temple.
Donald Tibbs from Southern.
Donald Bersoff from Villanova (where he was emeritus).
Duke
Ernest Young from Texas.
Emory
Jonathan Nash from Tulane.
Dorothy Brown from Washington & Lee.
Barbara Woodhouse from Florida.
Florida
Charlene Luke from Florida State.
Florida State
Elizabeth Chamblee Burch from Samford (Cumberland).
Florida Coastal
B.J. Priester from Florida State.
Fordham
Howard Erichson from Seton Hall.
George Mason
Helen Alvare from Catholic.
Adam Mossoff from Michigan State.
George Washington
Christopher Bracey from Washington University in St. Louis.
Georgia
Lori Ringhand from Kentucky.
New Bo Rutledge from Catholic.
Harvard
Michael Klarman from Virginia.
New Cass Sunstein from Chicago.
Ann Alstott from Yale.
Idaho
Angelique EagleWoman from Hamline.
Loyola - Chicago
Michael Zimmer from Seton Hall.
Loyola - LA
New Michael Guttentag from UNLV.
Marquette
Paul Secunda from Mississippi.
Janine Kim from Southwestern.
Matt Parlow from Chapman.
McGeorge (University of the Pacific)
Brian Slocum from Florida Coastal.
Paul Paton from Queens University at Kingston.
Michael Mireles from Denver.
Michigan
Susan Crawford from Cardozo.
Michigan State
Anne Lawton from Roger Williams.
Joan Howarth from UNLV (to be dean).
Minnesota
David Wippman from Cornell (to be dean).
Mississippi
Michele Alexandre from Memphis.
Missouri - Columbia
Rafael Gely from Cincinnati.
Nevada - Las Vegas
Jay Mootz from Penn. St.
New Mexico
Reed Benson from Wyoming.
New York Law School
New Gerald Korngold from Case Western.
New Lloyd Bonfield from Tulane.
New Richard Chused from Georgetown.
New Marshall Tracht from Hofstra.
New York University
Kenji Yoshino from Yale.
Robert Howse from Michigan.
New Mitchell Kane from Virginia.
North Carolina
B. Glenn George from William and Mary.
Gene Nichol from William and Mary.
North Carolina Central
Reginald Mombrun from Florida A&M.
Northwestern
Tom Brennan from Drexel.
Notre Dame
Mark McKenna from St. Louis.
Oregon
Ofer Raban from Detroit - Mercy.
Norman Williams from Willamette.
Penn
Jonathan Klick from Florida State.
Penn State
Zak Kramer from Arkansas - Little Rock.
New Jamison Colburn from Western New England.
New Catherine Rogers from LSU.
Rutgers-Newark
Carlos Ball from Penn State.
Stuart Green from LSU.
St. Louis
Elizabeth Pendo from St. Thomas (Miami).
Robert Gatter from Penn State.
St. Thomas (MN)
Lyman Johnson from Washington and Lee, where he will continue to teach one semester per year.
Samford University (Cumberland)
Gregory Laughlin from Memphis.
Seattle University
Richard Delgado from Pittsburgh.
Jean Stefancic from Pittsburgh.
Robert Chang from Loyola - L.A.
Seton Hall
Alice Ristroph from Utah.
SMU
D. Aaron Lacy from Barry.
Southwestern
New Arthur McAvoy from Wisconsin.
Suffolk
Meredith Conway from Texas Wesleyan.
Bernie Jones from U Mass Amherst Legal Studies.
New Alasdair Roberts from Syracuse Maxwell School of Public Affairs
Texas
Stefanie Lindquist from Vanderbilt.
Texas Tech
John Watts from Barry.
Texas Wesleyan
Carla Pratt from Penn State.
Frederic White from Golden Gate (to be dean).
Thomas Jefferson
Leah Christensen from St. Thomas (MN).
Toledo
Lee Strang from Ave Maria.
Touro
Tracy McGaugh from South Texas.
Tulane
Claire Dickerson from Rutgers-Newark.
Utah
Christopher Peterson from Florida.
Vanderbilt
Robert Mikos from UC Davis.
New Christopher Slobogin from Florida.
Vermont
Jason Czarnezki from Marquette.
Michael McCann from Mississippi College.
Stephanie Farrior from Penn St.
Virginia
New Frederick Schauer from Harvard.
Wake Forest
Steve Virgil from Creighton.
Washington University in St. Louis
Marion Crain from North Carolina.
Annette Appel from Nevada - Las Vegas.
Melissa Waters from Washington & Lee.
David Law from San Diego.
Washington & Lee
Susan Franck from Nebraska.
Hari Osofsky from Oregon.
Russell Miller from Idaho.
Benjamin Spencer from Richmond.
Joshua Fairfield from Indiana - Bloomington.
Johanna Bond from Wyoming.
Wayne State
Robert Ackerman from Penn St. (to be dean).
Widener (Delaware)
Thaddeus Pope from Memphis.
William & Mary
Timothy Zick from St. Johns.
Wisconsin
Darian Ibrahim from Arizona.
New Shubha Ghosh from SMU.
Yale
Doug Kysar from Cornell.
Thomas Merrill from Columbia.
not a good year for cornell
Posted by: anonymous | February 11, 2008 at 01:11 AM
It would be great if you did a GAINS column and a LOSSES column, or in this case a GAINS post and a LOSSES post. I realize I can get this info just by reading or doing a CTRL-F, but it would be interesting to have it compiled as it may show schools with quite a few departures.
Posted by: GSM | February 11, 2008 at 11:29 PM
How about Ernest Young from Texas to Duke.
Posted by: James | February 12, 2008 at 09:49 AM
Joan Howarth from UNLV to Michigan State (to be dean). http://www.law.msu.edu/news/2008/releases/howarth-dean.html
Posted by: GoState | February 18, 2008 at 06:24 PM
Doug Kysar to Yale
Tim Zick to William and Mary
Posted by: missing people | February 19, 2008 at 09:03 AM
When you do the updates, how about adding an "updated" or "new" word next to the additions? Just a thought, as this is a great service you're doing, and this way it's easier to see who's new to the list since the earlier version.
Posted by: Adam | February 19, 2008 at 02:11 PM
Richard Storrow from Penn State to CUNY
Posted by: anonymous | February 22, 2008 at 05:45 PM
Anyone dare say what's going on at Penn State?
Posted by: anonymous | February 25, 2008 at 04:04 PM
As with Lyman Johnson, the listing for Sunstein should reflect that the fact that he will continue to teach one quarter per year at Chicago.
Posted by: Brian | February 25, 2008 at 08:48 PM
Penn State: 2-campus law school = chaos. Losing good people.
Posted by: Anonymous | February 27, 2008 at 07:15 PM
Carla Pratt from Penn State to Texas Wesleyan.
Posted by: Nittany | February 28, 2008 at 06:59 PM
Sunstein's listing should not include Chicago because he will only be teaching as a visting professor.
Posted by: Adam | March 02, 2008 at 12:54 AM
Hiroshi Motomura to UCLA from North Carolina
Posted by: anonymous | March 05, 2008 at 01:05 PM
Stephanie Farrior from Penn State to Vermont
Posted by: anonymous | March 05, 2008 at 06:13 PM
You had listed , then removed, John Tehranian as going from Utah to Chapman...what happened?
Posted by: Anon | March 06, 2008 at 12:41 PM
Why are so many senior people leaving UNC? I heard that the current Dean is not very ambitious for the place, other than making it the best law school for North Carolina public interest lawyers, but I am surprised and concerned to see some of the better faculty leaving.
Posted by: anon | March 07, 2008 at 09:08 AM
Stephanie Farrior from Penn State to Vermont
Posted by: anonymous | March 07, 2008 at 03:45 PM
Stephanie Farrior's departure from Penn State is a huge loss, but more tellingly it's their fifth tenured departure in the last sixty days, at a time when that school is trying to spin the ABA into accepting the fiction of a second PSU campus tailgating onto a single accreditation. The earlier comment about chaos in the Happy Valley becomes more plausible.
Posted by: Matt kronick | March 10, 2008 at 11:04 AM
It's the sixth tenured departure from Penn State so far this year:
Robert Ackerman
Carlos Ball
Stephanie Farrior
Robert Gatter
Carla Pratt
Richard Storrow
Posted by: BlueAndWhite | March 10, 2008 at 03:41 PM
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Posted by: anonymous | March 11, 2008 at 07:43 PM
Charlotte Law School lost 50% of its faculty in its first year of existence:
Duncan Alford
Howard Katz (visiting at Capital U after just one year at Charlotte)
Jacki Knapman (visiting at Catholic U after just one year at Charlotte)
Jeffery Knight
The secretary to the Academic Dean left before the end of the first academic year.
Posted by: anonymous | March 11, 2008 at 07:57 PM
Robert Howse from Michigan to NYU
Posted by: Jim | March 12, 2008 at 05:42 PM
Jay Mootz from Penn State to UNLV.
Which makes seven tenured departures from Penn State this year.
Posted by: anonymous | March 12, 2008 at 10:13 PM
David Moran from Wayne State to Michigan
Posted by: jeff | March 17, 2008 at 04:19 PM
Appearances can deceive. I'll be joining Penn State in the fall: it is an exciting time for the law school and the university!
Posted by: Jamie Colburn | March 25, 2008 at 02:57 PM