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 A slightly outdated list of laterals, by school of departure, is here.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 dmf55@drexel.edu 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
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.
How about Ernest Young from Texas to Duke.
Joan Howarth from UNLV to Michigan State (to be dean). http://www.law.msu.edu/news/2008/releases/howarth-dean.html
Doug Kysar to Yale
Tim Zick to William and Mary
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.
Richard Storrow from Penn State to CUNY
Anyone dare say what's going on at Penn State?
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.
Penn State: 2-campus law school = chaos. Losing good people.
Carla Pratt from Penn State to Texas Wesleyan.
Sunstein's listing should not include Chicago because he will only be teaching as a visting professor.
Hiroshi Motomura to UCLA from North Carolina
Stephanie Farrior from Penn State to Vermont
You had listed , then removed, John Tehranian as going from Utah to Chapman…what happened?
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.
Stephanie Farrior from Penn State to Vermont
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.
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
xyz
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.
Robert Howse from Michigan to NYU
Jay Mootz from Penn State to UNLV.
Which makes seven tenured departures from Penn State this year.
David Moran from Wayne State to Michigan
Appearances can deceive. I'll be joining Penn State in the fall: it is an exciting time for the law school and the university!
I echo Jamie's comments. And I'll be joining Penn State in the fall as well.
Any chance in this getting updated shortly?
More Vermont Law School hires this year:
John Echeverria from Georgetown (to begin in '09)
John Nolon from Pace
Vermont's hire is Sean (not John) Nolon from Pace.
And law professors can be deceived too. The outflow of tenured PSU senior faculty points the other direction. Given the school's aspirations and expenditures, their inability to recruit T14 J.D. faculty nor keep the T14's they had is more probative than a sunny edict from an incoming hire.
David Law from University of San Diego School of Law and the Department of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego to Washington University St. Louis
I'm surprised no one's commented on the great hiring by Seattle U. Adding Delgado, Stefanic, Robert Chang from Loyola and Dean Spade, an entry level affiliated with UCLA and Harvard, to their faculty will make them critical identity scholarship powerhouse.
George Geis from Alabama to Virginia
Alfred Brophy from Alabama to UNC
Not surprised to see people always coming and going from PSU. Dean Phil wants his own people in positions and he's been raiding Illinois and other top schools for years now so some people had to go. Those names on the list haven't been there for a long time, most were fairly recent hires in the past 4 or 5 years part of Dickinson's attempt at "diversity" in the mid-2000s (which may have been a failed experiment, who knows.)
Plus, if you went to PSU, looking at the names on that list you'd have an idea why they might be leaving. It looks to be the "far left" professors with certain shall we say "distinct" characteristics are being weeded out. Minorities/Environmentalists/Human Rights Activists/Alternative Lifestyle (two are married) types. Moving into an even more central PA "conservative" area in University Park may make some professors yearn for more liberal pastures.
Plus, according to rumors from numerous PSU alums, one of those names on there was certainly not a voluntary manuever and she was fired for a scandal with a student and is getting a high profile divorce over it.
As someone who has had most of those profs who are now "gone" in class, PSU is in all likelihood better off. None of them are top scholars or great in the classroom outside of Storrow who is entertaining (but perhaps for the wrong reasons)and Mootz is solid. Gatter is a nice guy but I never had a class with him so I can't gauge him. But the others were well-known by students to be a little off in the classroom and a couple of them had well-known personality clashes with students and administrators.
And while Mootz is a loss, he also perpetrated one of the most inhumane classroom experiences I've ever been a part of. After burying my cousin as a pallbearer in the morning, I went to his Sales class that afternoon and despite an e-mail asking for leniency and telling him I had not read/wasn't prepared because of my cousin's tragic death – I was called on, embarassed and made to feel like a fool in front of 97 classmates until someone finally bailed me out.
So to the average student I don't see these guys as any big losses. I heard John Knox left, he was one hell of a professor. One of the best I had. Him leaving was a big loss.
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