Updated 5/24/11
Have I really been compiling this list for five six years? (Yes. 2006. 2007. 2008. 2009. 2010.) And now it's time for the 2011 iteration of law school lateral faculty hiring. Naturally, the first draft of this list will be woefully incomplete. I haven't included dean hires – they're here. Past experience teaches me that there will be errors at some point and perhaps some people will be irritated that I don't update the list sufficiently regularly. But I promise I'll do my best on all counts. Feel free to send me updates at: thefacultylounge@gmail.com. So without further ado, here goes…
American: L. Song Richardson (DePaul); Amanda Leiter (Catholic)
California – Berkeley: Russell Robinson (UCLA)
California – Davis: Ashutosh Bhagwat (UC Hastings); Angela Harris (UC Berkeley); Gabriel (Jack) Chin (Arizona)
California – Irvine: Katherine Porter (Iowa); Robert Solomon (Yale); Olufunmilayo Arewa (Northwestern); Sameer Ashar (CUNY); Rick Hasen (Loyola – LA)
California – Los Angeles: Laura Gomez (New Mexico)
Campbell: Tim Zinnecker (South Texas)
Case Western Reserve: Juscelino Colares (Syracuse); Ruqaiijah Yearby (SUNY Buffalo)
Cincinnati: Sandra Sperino (Temple)
Colorado: Erik Gerding (New Mexico); Peter Huang (Temple)
Denver: Nancy Leong (William & Mary)
District of Columbia: Keith Blair (Baltimore – already made move but too late for last list)
Drake: Andrew Jurs (Florida Coastal)
Duke: Margaret Lemos (Cardozo)
Duquesne: Jane Campbell Moriarty (Akron)
Florida: Wentong Zheng (Buffalo); Claire Germain (Cornell)
Florida International: Tawia Ansah (New England)
Florida State: Steve Johnson (UNLV); Jeffrey Kahn (Washington & Lee); Samuel Wiseman (Tulsa); Hannah Wiseman (Tulsa)
Fordham: James Brudney (Ohio State); Nestor Davidson (Colorado); Clare Huntington (Colorado); Ethan Leib (Hastings); Carl Minzner (Washington University – St. Louis).
Georgetown: Tanina Rostain (New York Law School); David Super (Maryland); Lawrence Solum (Illinois)
Georgia: Joseph Miller (Lewis & Clark); Elizabeth Weeks Leonard (Kansas); Diane Amann (California – Davis); Elizabeth Chamblee Burch (Florida St.)
Harvard: Jacob Gersen (Chicago); Richard Lazarus (Georgetown)
Illinois: Kenworthey Bilz (Northwestern); Paul Heald (Georgia)
Indiana – Bloomington: Daniel Cole (Indiana – Indianapolis)
Iowa: Emily Hughes (Washington University – St. Louis)
Lewis & Clark: Erin Ryan (William & Mary); Aliza Kaplan (Brooklyn)
Loyola – Chicago: Juan Perea (Florida); Matthew Sag (DePaul)
Miami: Susan Bandes (DePaul); Scott Sundby (Washington & Lee); Fred McChesney (Northwestern)
Nevada – Las Vegas: Ruben Garcia (California Western); Linda Berger (Mercer); Ian Bartrum (Drake)
New Mexico: Max Minzner (Cardozo); Rebecca Tsosie (Arizona State)
New York University: Gráinne de Búrca (Harvard)
North Carolina: Jeffrey Hirsch (Tennessee)
North Carolina Central: Nareissa Smith (Florida Coastal)
Northeastern: Kristin Madison (Penn)
Northern Illinois: Morris Tan (Florida Coastal)
Notre Dame: Roger Alford (Pepperdine); James Kelly (Baltimore); Avishalom Tor (Haifa)
Ohio State: Cinnamon Carlarne (South Carolina)
Pace: Ann Bartow (South Carolina); Elizabeth Burleson (South Dakota)
Pennsylvania: Jody Kraus (Virginia)
Rutgers-Newark: Anjum Gupta (Baltimore)
St. Louis: Miriam Cherry (Pacific – McGeorge)
St. Thomas (MN): Wulf Kaal (Mississippi College)
Seattle: Steve Bender (Oregon); Faith Stevelman (New York Law)
South Texas: Kenneth Williams (Southwestern)
Southern California: Lee Epstein (Northwestern); Nancy Staudt (Northwestern)
Stanford: Robert Gordon (retiring from Yale)
Stetson: Cynthia Batt (Temple)
Tennessee: Michelle Kwon (Texas Tech); David Wolitz (Georgetown); Valorie Vojdik (West Virginia)
Toledo: Jelani Jefferson Exum (Kansas)
Touro: Michael Lewyn (Florida Coastal)
Vanderbilt: J.B. Ruhl (Florida State)
Virginia: John Duffy (George Washington)
Widener-Delaware: Andre Smith (Florida International)
William & Mary: Tara Leigh Grove (Florida St.)
Wisconsin Mark Sidel (Iowa)
Yale: James Forman (Georgetown)
Song Richardson to American from DePaul.
Jeff Kahn (from Washington & Lee) and Steve Johnson (from UNLV) to Florida State.
Funmi Arewa from Northwestern to UC Irvine
Amanda Leiter to American from Catholic.
Scott Sundby from Washington & Lee to Miami
Jeff Hirsch from Tennessee to North Carolina (per Workplace Profs)
Michelle Kwon from Texas Tech to Tennessee.
Gabriel "Jack" Chin from Arizona to UC Davis.
I recall that last year we were very focused on the gender ratio of this group. Based on the initial group listed, I believe the gender ratio so far is almost exactly 50/50.
Tara Leigh Grove from FSU to William & Mary
That's an interesting observation, Orin. I wonder if there's any explanation for it.
Actually, one other thought to add to Orin's comment is there also appears to be a lot more diversity in this group both in terms of race and gender.
I think searching for an explanation for year-to-year discrepancies would be a mistake, due both to sample size and the fact that the populations are not sufficiently discrete (e.g., someone can choose to move one year or the next, at least in some cases). Choose some five year period and, if though necessary, drop repeats, then compare to the overall proportions in the academy.
That's probably very true, anonyprof. Just thought Orin's observation was interesting. Also there may be one unusual year when, say, there's a ripple effect in a particular subject-matter area that women or minorities tend to teach in and there happens to be a lot of hiring that year but not in the surrounding year. For example if a senior critical race theorist moves from Virginia to Harvard, that may lead to a whole lot of moves of critical race theorists the following year down a chain of schools as Virginia replaces the prof and then their new hire's previous school does the same thing etc etc. Of course a five year study should be able to easily deal with this.
No one at ANY UC school calls itself California-____. You may want to correct this.
Linda Berger from Mercer to UNLV.
Kate Kruse from UNLV to Fordham.
UNLV continues to bleed faculty: http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202485452444&rss=nlj&slreturn=1&hbxlogin=1
UC Davis and Irvine — Excellent hires! Best of the list.
Elizabeth Weeks Leonard from Kansas to Georgia.
Tim Zinnecker from South Texas to Campbell.
Any word on entry-level hires?
Nariessa Smith from Florida Coastal to North Carolina Central.
Michael Lewyn from Florida Coastal to Touro Law Center.
At this juncture, Kate Kruse has not been hired by Fordham.
Hannah Wiseman and Sam Wiseman to Florida State from Tulsa.
Jacob Gersen from Chicago to Harvard.