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The Law VAP List: Visiting Professors 2008-09

Right now, our data is far more limited than for lateral visitors, but I'm pleased to present the first iteration of our list of law school visiting assistant professors for 2008-09.  Keep in mind that this list includes people who have never held a permanent law school teaching position.  At least one - Sasha Volokh - has already accepted such a position.  Please email additional information to danielmfiller@gmail.com.  I'd appreciate it if you could include not only candidate names, and host schools, but candidate JD and graduate degree information as well.

Perry	Behcky	Connecticut (08-09)
Asif	Efrat	Cornell (08-10)
H. Brian	Holland	Penn State/Dickinson
Andrew	Jurs	Wake Forest (08-09)
Ben	Leff	Harvard (08-10)
Amanda	Peters	South Texas (08-09)
Marc	Roark	Missouri-Columbia (08-09)
Colette	Routel	Michigan (08-09)
David	Rubenstein	Hofstra
Sasha	Volokh	Houston (08-09)
		(has accepted permanent appt at Emory)

A List Of Current Law School Dean Searches

Moved to the top May 5 with additions and modifications.  As always, I encourage readers to provide any additional information.

A couple of months ago, a colleague from another law school suggested I start a new list: a compilation of all current law school dean searches.  This seems like a great idea, particularly since blogs have turned into excellent ways for faculty exchange information on law school hiring.  In that spirit, I am hereby soliciting any and all information on current law school searches.  I'll start with the few I am aware of (though corrections are always encouraged and invited.)   Note that some of these searches are at late stages, and others are very much in progress.  (Big thanks to Brian Leiter for finalist info which I've included here.)  Update: I will add have been adding additional information as it comes in to create the most accurate list possible.  Based on Rob Kar's good suggestion, I will also link to the job postings where I have them.

Arizona St.  (Finalists: Paul Schiff Berman and Kevin Johnson)

Buffalo (Finalists: Leon Trakman, Bruce Smith, and Margaret Raymond)

UC Davis (Kevin Johnson named dean.)

Drake

Hamline (Donald Lewis named dean.)

Houston (Finalists: Neil Cogan, Linda Greene, Craig Nard, Raymond Nimmer) (Raymond Nimmer named dean.)

Illinois

Kentucky

LaVerne

Loyola L.A.

Miami (Finalists: Jonathan Simon, Linda Greene and Jennifer Rosato.)

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).

Departures: Law Faculty Lateral Moves By School Of Origin

For those of you unsatisfied by the current list of lateral faculty moves organized by school of arrival, here is the the list by school of departure. 

American

Dennis Ventry to UC Davis

Arkansas-Little Rock

Zak Kramer to Penn State

Arizona

Darian Ibrahim to Wisconsin

Ave Maria

Lee Strang to Toledo

Barry

D. Aaron Lacy to SMU
John Watts to Texas Tech

Cardozo

Susan Crawford to Michigan

Catholic

Heather Elliot to Alabama
Helen Alvare to George Mason

Chapman

Matt Parlow to Marquette

Temple Law Announces Dean Finalists

The Temple Law dean search has yielded three finalists: JoAnne Epps of Temple, Paul Schiff Berman of Connecticut (also a finalist at Arizona State), and Wendell Pritchett of Penn (on leave and currently working for Philly Mayor Michael Nutter).   More information here. 

I have added this information to my ever-evolving list of ongoing dean searches.

Sunstein Off To Harvard

Cass Sunstein is headed to Cambridge, Mass.  I'll include this morsel in the next update of the lateral move list.  Hat tip: David Bernstein.

Faculty Salaries at William & Mary and Virginia

One of the student newspapers at the College of William and Mary has collected and posted salary information for faculty and administrators there.  In light of our continuing coverage of the Gene Nichol case, readers might find the article and accompanying spreadsheet tables of some interest.  Outside of faculty in the higher paid programs (and law is one of those schools) the article points out that "few professors earn into the triple digits. Many assistant and associate professors earn less than $50,000."  The Cavalier Daily notoriously publishes UVa faculty salaries here.  (The data is a bit out of date.)