Sunday, July 24, 2016
Lateral hires with tenure or on tenure-track, 2015-16
THIS IS THE LAST TIME I AM MOVING THIS TO THE FRONT FOR THE PAST HIRING SEASON--THE 2016-17 INITIAL LIST WILL APPEAR HERE ON AUGUST 1
These are non-clinical appointments that will take effect in 2016 (except where noted); I will move the list to the front at various intervals as new additions come in. Recent additions are in bold. Last year's list is here.
*Edward Afield (tax) from Ava Maria School of Law to Georgia State University.
*Lisa Alexander (corporate, contracts, housing & urban development law) from the University of Wisconsin, Madison to Texas A&M University.
*Mark Alexander (constitutional law, law & politics) from Seton Hall University to Villanova University (to become Dean).
*James Anaya (international human rights) from the University of Arizona to the University of Colorado, Boulder (to become Dean).
*RonNell Anderson (constitutional law, First Amendment, media law) from Brigham Young University to the University of Utah.
*Margo Bagley (patents, international patent law) from the University of Virginia to Emory University.
*Craig Boise (tax, international tax, corporate tax) from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University to Syracuse University (to become Dean).
*Zack Buck (health law) from Mercer University to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (untenured lateral).
*Michael Cahill (criminal law) from Brooklyn Law School to Rutgers University (as Co-Dean).
*Dale Carpenter (constitutional law) from the University of Minnesota to Southern Methodist University.
*James Coleman (energy law) from the University of Calgary to Southern Methodist University (untenured lateral).
*Nicolas Cornell (contracts, law & philosophy) from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania to the University of Michigan (law) (untenured lateral) (starting in fall 2017).
*Eric Dannenmaier (environmental law) from Indiana University, Indianapolis to Northern Illinois University (to become Dean).
*David Fagundes (property) from Southwestern Law School to the University of Houston.
*Joshua Fischman (law & economics, empirical legal studies) from Northwestern University to the University of Virginia.
*Michael Frakes (health law, innovation policy) from Northwestern University to Duke University.
*Susan Franck (international economic law & dispute resolution) from Washington & Lee University to American University.
*Shubha Ghosh (intellectual property, law & technology, antitrust) from the University of Wisconsin, Madison to Syracuse University.
*James Grimmelman (intellectual property, cyberlaw) from the University of Maryland to Cornell Tech (New York City) and Cornell University (Law, Ithaca).
*Joanna Grossman (family law, gender and the law) from Hofstra University to Southern Methodist University.
*Grant Hayden (corporate governance, voting rights, labor law) from Hofstra University to Southern Methodist University.
*Carissa Byrne Hessick (criminal law, legal ethics) from the University of Utah to the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
*Andrew Hessick (administrative law, constitutional law, federal courts, remedies) from the University of Utah to the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
*David Hyman (health law, insurance law) from the University of Illinois to Georgetown University.
*Garry Jenkins (law & philanthropy, corporate governance, leadership studies) from Ohio State University to the University of Minnesota (to become Dean).
*Janine Kim (criminal law, race & the law) from Marquette University to Chapman University.
*Renee Knake (legal ethics, constitutional law) from Michigan State University to the University of Houston.
*Sarah Lawsky (tax, law & philosophy) from the University of California, Irvine to Northwestern University.
*Andrew Lund (corporate, securities) from Pace University to Villanova University.
*Fatma Marouf (immigration law & clinic) from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas to Texas A&M University.
*Thomas Mitchell (property, land use, remedies, rural development) from the University of Wisconsin, Madison to Texas A&M University.
*Camille Nelson (critical race theory, criminal law & procedure) from Suffolk University to American University (to become Dean).
*Erin O'Hara O'Connor (conflicts, dispute resolution, law & economics) from Vanderbilt University to Florida State University (to become Dean).
*Angela Onwuachi-Willig (family law, employment discrimination, critical race theory) from the University of Iowa to the University of California, Berkeley.
*Jordan Paradise (food & drug law, administrative law, biotechnology law) from Seton Hall University to Loyola University, Chicago.
*Matthew Parlow (land use, urban planning & policy, sports law) from Marquette University to Chapman University (as Dean).
*Gregg Polsky (tax, corporate finance, corporate law) from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill to the University of Georgia.
*Lawrence Ponoroff (commercial law) from the University of Arizona to Michigan State University (to become Dean).
*Nicholson Price (patents, health law) from the University of New Hampshire to the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (untenured lateral).
*Greg Reilly (patents, intellectual property) from California Western School of Law to Chicago-Kent College of Law (untenured lateral).
*Edward B. Rock (corporate) from the University of Pennsylvania to New York University.
*Amy Schmitz (aribtrarion, consumer law, contracts) from the University of Colorado, Boulder to the University of Missouri, Columbia.
*Beth Simmons (international law, international human rights) from Harvard University (Government Department) to the University of Pennsylvania (Law & Political Science).
*Bruce P. Smith (legal history) from the University of Illinois to the University of Denver (as Dean).
*Jane Stapleton (torts, tort theory) from the University of Texas, Austin to Christ's College, Cambridge (to become Master)
*Alex Stein (evidence, torts, medical malpractice, criminal law, legal theory) from Cardozo Law School to Brooklyn Law School.
*Elizabeth Trujillo (international trade) from Suffolk University to Texas A&M University.
*Kristen van de Biezenbos (energy, oil & gas, environmental) from Texas Tech University to the University of Oklahoma, Norman (untenured lateral).
*Steve Vladeck (federal courts, national security law, constitutional law) from American University to the University of Texas, Austin.
*Gina Warren (energy law, oil & gas law) from Texas A&M University to the University of Houston
*Melissa Wasserman (patents, intellectual property, administrative law, torts, innovation law and policy) from the University of Illinois to the University of Texas, Austin.
*Ellen Yaroshefsky (legal ethics) from Cardozo Law School to Hofstra University.
*Taisu Zhang (legal history, comparative law) from Duke University to Yale University (untenured lateral).
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