Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Lateral hires in law with tenure or on tenure-track, 2024-25

These are non-clinical/non-LRW appointments that will take effect in summer or fall 2025 (except where noted); (new additions will be in bold.)  Last year's list is here.

 

*Christine Abely (property, contracts, international business transactions) from New England Law to the University of New Hampshire/Franklin Pierce College of Law (untenured lateral).

 

*Jonathan Adler (environmental law, administrative law) from Case Western Reserve University to the College of William & Mary.

 

*Maryam Ahranjani (criminal law, criminal procedure, constitutional law, education law) from University of New Mexico to University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

 

*Amna Akbar (criminal law & procedure, social movements) from Ohio State University to the University of Minnesota.

 

*Angela Aneiros (corporate, commerical law) from Gonzaga University to Lewis & Clark (untenured lateral).

 

*Albertina Antognini (family law, property, trusts & estates) from the University of Arizona to Loyola Law School, Los Angeles.

 

*Andrew Appleby (tax, corporate) from Stetson University to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

 

*Miriam Baer (criminal law, corporate law) from Brooklyn Law School to California Western School of Law (to become Dean).

 

*Katharine Baker (family law, property) from Chicago-Kent College of Law/Illinois Institute of Technology to the University of Iowa.

 

*Oren Bar-Gill (commercial law, contracts, law & economics) from Harvard University to New York University.

 

*Jeffrey Bellin (criminal law; criminal procedure; evidence) from the College of William & Mary to Vanderbilt University.

 

*Jason Bent (labor and employment law) from Stetson University to Chicago-Kent College of Law/Illinois Institute of Technology.

 

*Anya Bernstein (administrative law, civil procedure, law & society) from the University of Connecticut to Boston University (effective July 2026).

 

*Samuel Bray (remedies, equity, constitutional law) from the University of Notre Dame to the University of Chicago.

 

*Sara Bronin (property, land use, energy law) from Cornell University (City & Urban Planning) to George Washington University (Law).

 

*Ryan Bubb (corporate law, securities regulation, law & economics) from New York University to the University of Southern California.

 

*Devon Carbado (criminal procedure, constitutional law, Critical Race Theory) from the University of California, Los Angeles to New York University (effective January 2025).

 

*Caroline Cecot (administrative law, environmental law) from George Mason University to George Washington University.

 

*Shih-Chun Steven Chien (criminal law & procedure, evidence, professional responsibility) from Cleveland State University to University of Nevada, Las Vegas (untenured lateral).

 

*Bryan Choi (law & technology, patent law, intellectual property) from Ohio State University to the University of Colorado, Boulder.

 

*Jonathan Choi (tax, AI & law, statutory interpretation) from the University of Southern California to Washington University, St. Louis.

 

*Grant Christensen (Federal Indian law, civil procedure) from Stetson University to the University of Alabama (untenured lateral).

 

*Christopher Cotropia (patents, intellectual property, empirical legal studies) from the University of Richmond to George Washington University.

 

*Thomas Crocker (constitutional law, criminal procedure) from the University of South Carolina to Boston College.

 

*Jason Czarnecki (environmental law) from Pace University to Chicago-Kent College of Law/Illinois Institute of Technology (to become Dean).

 

*Nestor Davidson (property, land use, housing law, local government law) from Fordham University to Harvard University (Graduate School of Design).

 

*Anjali D. Deshmukh (health law) from Georgia State University to Seton Hall University (untenured lateral).

 

*Scott DeVito (commercial law, evidence) from Jacksonville University to Quinnipiac University (untenured lateral).

 

*Avihay Dorfman (torts, property, legal and political theory) from Tel Aviv University to University of Texas at Austin.

 

*Robin Effron (civil procedure, international business transactions) from Brooklyn Law School to Fordham University.

 

*Kristen Eichensehr (national security and foreign relations law, cybersecurity law) from the University of Virginia to Harvard University.

 

*Matthew Erie (Chinese law, Islamic law, international business transactions, law & anthropology) from Oxford University (Asian & Middle Eastern Studies) to American University (law).

 

*Meredith Esser (criminal law & procedure, evidence) from University of Wyoming to University of Nevada, Las Vegas (untenured lateral).

 

*Pamela Foohey(bankruptcy, commercial law, consumer law) from the University of Georgia to the University of Minnesota (effective fall 2026).

 

*Andrew Guthre Ferguson (criminal law & procedure, evidence) from American University to George Washington University.

 

*Brian Galle (tax) from Georgetown University to the University of California, Berkeley.

 

*George Georgiev (corporate law, securities regulation) from Emory University to the University of Miami.

 

*Heather Gerken (constitutional law, election law) from Yale University (where she is Dean) to the Ford Foundation (to become President).

 

*Andrew Gilden (intellectual property, law & technology, civil rights, law & gender/sexual orientation) from Willamette University to Southwestern Law School.

 

*Myriam Gilles (civil procedure, torts, civil rights) from Cardozo Law School/Yeshiva University to Northwestern University.

 

*Paul Gugliuzza (patents, federal courts, civil procedure) from Temple University to the University of Texas, Austin.

 

*Jonathan Gould (legislation, constitutional law, administrative law, law & politics) from the University of California, Berkeley to New York University.

 

*Sergio Gramitto Ricci (corporate law) from the University of Missouri, Kansas City to Hofstra University (untenured lateral) (effective January 2025).

 

*Jamie Grischkan (legal history, financial institutions) from Arizona State University to Fordham University (untenured lateral).

 

*Sarah Haan (corporate law, First Amendment) from Washington & Lee University to Brooklyn Law School.

 

*Victoria Haneman (tax, trusts & estates) from Creighton University to the University of Georgia.

 

*Jonathan Harris (labor & employment law, contracts, consumer law) from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles to Temple University (untenured lateral).

 

*Christopher Havasy (administrative law, constitutional law, legal history) from Dickinson School of Law, Pennsylvania State University to George Washington University (untenured lateral).

 

*Jill Horwitz (health law & policy) from the University of California, Los Angeles to Northwestern University.

 

*Jeffrey Kahn (constitutional law, administrative law, human rights) from Southern Methodist University to American University.

 

*Peter Karol (intellectual property, art law) from University of New Hampshire/Franklin Pierce College of Law to Suffolk University.

 

*Orin Kerr (criminal procedure, computer crime law) from the University of California, Berkeley to Stanford University (effective January 2025).

 

*Ido Kilovaty (law & technology, criminal law & procedure) from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville to Dickinson School of Law, Pennsylvania State University.

 

*Aneil Kovvali (corporate) from Indiana University, Bloomington to Cardozo Law School/Yeshiva University (untenured lateral)

 

*Sarah Lawsky (tax, law & technology, law & philosophy) from Northwestern University to the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

 

*Ann Lipton (corporate law, securities regulation) from Tulane University to the University of Colorado, Boulder.

 

*Anne Maria Lofaso (labor & employment law) from West Virginia University to the University of Cincinnati (effective January 2025).

 

*Wayne Logan (criminal law & procedure) from Florida State University to Wake Forest University.

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July 9, 2025 in Faculty News | Permalink

Thursday, June 26, 2025

Another penetrating critique of the ABA proposal to double the number of experiential credit hours required

This one from Notre Dame lawprof Derek Muller, which is worth reading in its entirety.  If the Council does not withdraw this ill-considered and inadequately justified proposal, then it really will be time to seek alternative accreditation agencies for law schools, ones that respect both law students and the academic freedom of law faculties to plan different courses of study.

June 26, 2025 in Of Academic Interest | Permalink

Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Excellent letter by Marquette Law Dean Kearney in opposition to the terrible ABA proposal to double the required number of experiential hours

The full letter is here (earlier coverage).  As Dean Kearney writes:

[T]he Council’s proposal would mandate a startling redirection of resources. Given the integrated nature of a program of legal education, the proposal would constitute an unprecedented invasion into the upper-level curricula of law schools, diminish substantially the schools’ appropriate autonomy, and impair their ability to innovate and to adapt their programs to local needs and institutional missions—all at a time of other extraordinary pressures on legal education. More succinctly and concretely: The proposal ignores the curricular tradeoffs that will necessarily result for schools and students and dismisses the likely financial costs of the new requirements.

 

The proposal’s apparent general animating philosophy—which has scant regard for the precept that accreditation standards are intended to establish minimum requirements for “adequate” education while protecting each school’s leading role in defining its own educational program—is regrettable enough. More specifically objectionable is that the proposal to double the current minimum requirement of experiential-learning credits lacks adequate evidentiary support. Valuable though experiential education is, a “more is better” approach to its requirement is not adequately supported in the proposal—notwithstanding the observation that other, very different professions, with different educational pathways, have more experiential education. Given the weak evidentiary basis for increasing the number of mandatory experiential-learning credits, the absence of a rigorous (or really any) cost-benefit analysis should prompt the proposal’s withdrawal.

Other comments on the proposal are here, and they are overwhelmingly opposed, with the rather revealing exception of a letter from the Clinical Legal Education Association.  If the ABA does not withdraw this intrusive proposal, that will disrupt the legal education of thousands of students, then massive defiance will be the only appropriate response of law schools.

 

June 25, 2025 in Of Academic Interest | Permalink

Friday, June 20, 2025

If this report is correct, then everyone should boycott the Harvard Law Review

Is this for real? 

[Harvard Law Review] Editors complained that a piece had cited "A LOT of old white men," attempted to guess whether a scholar was "Latina," complained that an author was "not from an underrepresented background," and praised an article for citing "predominantly Black singers, rappers, and members of Twitter."

Another article was recommended, in part, because "it cites a Kendrick song in the Conclusion!"....

While some editors recommended pieces on the grounds that the author was a minority, others paid more attention to the article’s footnotes, combing through the citations to see how many sources were white, black, or transgender.

"The author cited 20 men by name," Leah Smith, who graduated Harvard Law School in May, wrote of one article, but only "9 women and 1 non-binary scholar."

Everyone knows student editors don't know what they're doing (which is why it's good they consult more now with faculty*), but this is really a new low.

*Some student-edited law reviews can't even do faculty-consultations in a professional way.  In one case (involving a very prominent law review, not Harvard or Chicago), I was given the usual 48 hours to give my opinion.  I did:  the article, I noted, was "sophomoric" and "not publishable," and I gave some explanation.  The journal accepted the article for publication.  The author was a faculty member at that school.  My assessment was, in fact, correct.

 

June 20, 2025 in Legal Profession, Of Academic Interest | Permalink

Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Faculty hiring freezes?