Law School Lateral Faculty Moves 2014

Updated August 23, 2014

It's that time again!  This year, I expect the numbers of lateral moves to be down.  Every year I say it, and I will again: I crib other lists to get this going - and none more than Brian Leiter's list of tenured laterals.   I rely on news from all of you to do this thing;  please send along information to [email protected].  One thing I know for sure: I'll fall behind on the project.  Ultimately, though, I hope the list will be pretty complete. Keep in mind - I post all moves, with or without tenure, and including people moving from a long-term contract position to either an LTK or a tenure-track slot.  In this respect, at least, I'm pretty catholic.  (I do leave moves from VAP and other non-long term slots to Prawfs entry level list.)  

Check out my old lateral move lists as well: 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007 and 2006.

And shoot, while you're at it, you might remenisce about law school dean searches too: this year, last year,  2011-12, 2010-11, 2009-10, and 2008-09.

I have not included faculty who have moved to new schools to become dean.  

Akron

Jacqueline Lipton from Houston (as Director of IP Center)

Alabama

 Mirit Eyal-Cohen from Pittsburgh
Jenny Carroll from Seton Hall
Adam Steinman from Seton Hall

Arizona

Andrew Coan from Wisconsin

Arizona State

Rhett Larson from Oklahoma
Troy Rule from Missouri

Arkansas

Steven Clowney from Kentucky

Boston College

Cathleen Kaveny from Notre Dame
Patricia McCoy from Connecticut

Boston University

Peggy Maisel from Florida International

Brigham Young

Christine Hurt from Illinois
Paul Stancil from Illinois

Brooklyn

Christina Mulligan from Georgia

California - Berkeley

Christopher Tomlins from California - Irvine

California - Irvine

Kaaryn Gustafson from Connecticut
Michelle Goodwin from Minnesota
L. Song Richardson from Iowa
Gregory Schaffer from Minnesota

Chicago

Justin Driver from Texas
Dhammika Dharmapala from Illinois

Colorado

David Hasen from Santa Clara

Columbia

Edward Morrison from Chicago
Bernard Harcourt from Chicago
Eric Talley from California - Berkeley

Concordia

McKay Cunningham from Arizona Summit
Victoria Haneman from LaVerne

Cornell

Saule Omarova from North Carolina
Gerald Torres from Texas

Drexel

Amy Landers from McGeorge

Florida

Robert Rhee from Maryland

Florida International

Charles Jalloh from Pittsburgh
Kalyani Robbins from Akron

George Washington

Emily Hammond from Wake Forest

Georgetown

William Buzbee from Emory

Georgia State

Robert Weber from Tulsa

Harvard

Samuel Moyn from Columbia History Department
Oren Bar-Gill from NYU
Intisar Raab from NYU Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
Kristen Stilt from Northwestern

Indiana - Indianapolis

Xuan-Thao Nguyen from Southern Methodist

Massachusetts - Dartmouth

Margaret Drew from Cincinnati
Eric Mitnick from Thomas Jefferson

NYU

Kwame AnthonyAppiah from Princeton Philosophy

Northwestern

Michael Frakes from Cornell
Deborah Tuerkheimer from DePaul

Pennsylvania

Mitchell Berman from Texas
Jean Galbraith from Rutgers-Camden
Wendell Pritchett from Rutgers-Camden

San Diego

Howard Abrams from Emory

Southern Illinois

Jennifer Brobst from North Carolina Central
Angela Upchurch from Capital

Stanford

Michelle Wilde Anderson from California - Berkeley
Robert MacCoun from California - Berkeley
David Sklansky from California - Berkeley
David Studdert from Melbourne

Texas

Andrew Kull from Boston University

Utah

Jorge Contreras from American

Victoria

John Borrows from Minnesota

Virginia

Michael Doran from Georgetown
Kimberly Ferzan from Rutgers-Camden
A. Benjamin Spencer from Washington and Lee
Cynthia Nicoletti from Mississippi College of Law

Washington (University of)

Michael Hatfield from Texas Tech

Washington University (St. Louis)

Lee Epstein from Southern California

William and Mary

Darian Ibrahim from Wisconsin

Comments

[Amy Landers]

Thank you Dan--I've very pleased to join the faculty at Drexel next Fall. I'm very impressed with the high quality of the faculty's scholarship and outreach, as well as the great administration. See you in a few months!

[DS]

Rhett Larson (Oklahoma) is joining the faculty at Arizona State in Fall.

[altidore]

It's UC Irvine, not California-Irvine, as it is UCLA (not California - Los Angeles), UC Davis (not California-Davis), and UC Hastings (not California-Hastings).

[TS]

How about creating a list of faculty resignations, retirements and buyouts? That might be helpful too to know where law schools are losing faculty in different sub-disciplines.