Lateral hires with tenure or on tenure-track, 2018-19

I EXPECT THIS WILL BE THE LAST TIME THIS LIST IS MOVED TO THE FRONT FOR 2018-19

These are non-clinical appointments that will take effect in 2019 (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.  Feel free to e-mail me with news of additions to this list.

 

*Sarah Adams-Schoen (land use, ocean & coastal law) from the University of Arkansas, Little Rock to the University of Oregon (untenured lateral).

 

*Jane Aiken (torts, evidence, experiential education) from Georgetown University to Wake Forest University (to become Dean).

 

*Mehrsa Baradaran (banking law, bankruptcy) from the University of Georgia to the University of California, Irvine.

 

*Kristen Barnes (property, housing law, international human rights, voting rights) from the University of Akron to Syracuse University. 

 

*Michael F. Barry (complex litigation, legal education & pedagogy) from St. Mary's University to South Texas College of Law (to become Dean and President).

 

*Valena E. Beety (criminal law & procedure) from West Virginia University to Arizona State University.

 

*Matt Blaze (computer and network security) from the University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer & Information Sciences to Georgetown University (joint appointment in Law and Computer Science).

 

*Mary Anne Bobinski (health law) from the University of British Columbia to Emory University (to become Dean).

 

*Pamela Bookman (contracts, civil procedure, arbitration) from Temple University to Fordham University (untenured lateral).

 

*Maureen Brady (property, land use, legal history) from the University of Virginia to Harvard University (untenured lateral).

 

*William Wilson Bratton (corporate law) from the University of Pennsylvania (where he will become emeritus) to the University of Miami (effective July 1, 2020).

 

*Khiara Bridges (race & the law, family law, reproductive rights) from Boston University to the University of California, Berkeley.

 

*Neil Buchanan (tax) from George Washington University to the University of Florida, Gainesville.

 

*Michael Cahill (criminal law) from Rutgers University back to Brooklyn Law School (to become Dean).

 

*Richard Chen (contracts, international law & arbitration) from the University of Maine to the University of Hawaii (untenured lateral).

 

*Albert Choi (law & economics, contracts, corporate) from the University of Virginia to the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

 

*Danielle Citron (privacy, civil rights, freedom of expression, Internet law) from the University of Maryland to Boston University.

 

*Zachary Clopton (civil procedure, international business transaction, national security law) from Cornell University to Northwestern University.

 

*G. Marcus Cole (bankruptcy, law & economics) from Stanford University to the University of Notre Dame (to become Dean).

 

*Blanche Cook (criminal law & procedure, evidence, critical race theory) from Wayne State University to the University of Kentucky.

 

*Giuseppe Dari Mattiacci (law & economics, comparative law, corporate law, contracts) from the University of Amsterdam to Columbia University.

 

*Danielle Conway (public procurement law, entrepreneurship, intellectual property) from the University of Maine (where she is Dean) to Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law (to become Dean).

 

*Lincoln Davies (energy law & policy) from the University of Utah to Ohio State University (to become Dean).

 

*Ryan Doerfler (legislation/statutory interpretation, administrative law, law & philosophy) from the University of Pennsylvania to the University of Chicago.

 

*Justin Driver (constitutional law) from the University of Chicago to Yale University.

 

*Trevor Gardner (criminal law) from the University of Washington, Seattle to Washington University, St. Louis (untenured lateral).

 

*Jonah Gelbach (law & economics, civil procedure, empirical legal studies) from the University of Pennsylvania to the University of California, Berkeley.

 

*Marc-Tizoc Gonzalez (property, critical race theory, poverty law) from St. Thomas University (Florida) to the University of New Mexico. 

 

*D. Wendy Greene (employment law, race & law, constitutional law) from Cumberland Law/Samford University to Drexel University.

 

*David Grewal (international trade, law & technology, political economy, political theory) from Yale University to the University of California, Berkeley.

 

*Vinay Harpalani (race & law, education law, constitutional law) from Savannah Law School to the University of New Mexico (untenured lateral).

 

*Jonathan Kahn (health law, bioethics, constitutional law, torts) from Mitchell|Hamline School of Law to Northeastern University.

 

*John Kang (constitutional law, law & gender, legal theory) from St. Thomas University (Florida) to the University of New Mexico.

 

*Orin Kerr (criminal procedure, computer crime law) from the University of Southern California to the University of California, Berkeley.

 

*Catherine Kim (civil procedure, administrative and immigration law) from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill to Brooklyn Law School.

 

*Anita Krug (securities regulation, financial regulation) from the University of Washington, Seattle to Chicago-Kent College of Law/Illinois Institute of Technology (to become Dean).

 

*David S. Law (comparative constitutional law, law & social science) from Washington University, St. Louis to the University of California, Irvine.

 

*Kate Levine (criminal law and procedure) from St. John's University to Cardozo Law School (untenured lateral).

 

*Myrisha Lewis (health law, bioethics, family law) from Howard University to the College of William & Mary (untenured lateral).

 

*Ji Li (Chinese law and politics) from Rutgers University to the University of California, Irvine.

 

*Leah Litman (constitutional law, federal courts) from the University of California, Irvine to the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (untenured lateral).

 

*M. Elizabeth Magill (administrative law, constitutional law) from Stanford University to the University of Virginia (to become Provost).

 

*Andrea Matwyshyn (law & technology, cybersecurity, privacy, intellectual property) from Northeastern University to Pennsylvania State University, University Park (where she will also be founding director of the Policy Innovation Lab of Tomorrow).

 

*James McGrath (legal education & pedagogy, health law) from Texas A&M University to Western Michigan University Cooley Law School (to become President and Dean).

 

*Ralf Michaels (comparative law, conflicts of law) from Duke University to the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and Private International Law (Hamburg).

 

*Daniel Morales (immigration law) from DePaul University to the University of Houston.

 

*Rachel Moran (education law, civil rights, race & the law) from the University of California, Los Angeles to the University of California, Irvine.

 

*Minor Myers (corporate law) from Brooklyn Law School to the University of Connecticut, Hartford.

 

*John Newman (antitrust, conflicts) from the University of Memphis to the University of Miami (untenured lateral).

 

*Mark Niles (civil procedure, constitutional law, administrative law) from American University to Hofstra University.

 

*Sean O'Connor (intellectual property, law & technology) from the University of Washington, Seattle to George Mason University.

 

*Jennifer D. Oliva (health law, evidence, torts) from West Virginia University to Seton Hall University (untenured lateral)

 

*Jessica Owley (environmental law) from the University at Buffalo-State University of New York to the University of Miami.

 

*Justin Pidot (environmental & administrative law, property) from the University of Denver to the University of Arizona.

 

*Elizabeth Pollman (corporate law) from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles to the University of Pennsylvania (effective January 2020).

 

*Jedediah Purdy (property, environmental law, constitutional law) from Duke University to Columbia University (effective January 2019).

 

*Natalie Ram (biotechnology & law, bioethics, law & medicine) from the University of Baltimore to the University of Maryland (untenured lateral).

 

*Anna Roberts (criminal law & procedure, evidence) from Seattle University to St. John's University.

 

*Kalyani Robbins (environmental & natural resources law, property) from Florida International University to Loyola University, Chicago.

 

*Kimberly J. Robinson (education law, civil rights) from the University of Richmond to the University of Virginia.

 

*Michael Selmi (employment law & discrimination, civil rights) from George Washington University to Arizona State University.

 

*Elizabeth Sepper (law and religion, health law, antidiscrimination law) from Washington University, St. Louis to the University of Texas, Austin.

 

*Rick Su (property, state and local government, immigration law) from the University at Buffalo-State University of New York to the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

 

*Karen Tani (legal history) from the University of California, Berkeley to the University of Pennsylvania (effective July 2020).

 

*Elizabeth Trujillo (international trade law) from Texas A&M University to the University of Houston.

 

*Anthony E. Varona (administrative law, media law, law & sexuality) from American University to the University of Miami (to become Dean).

 

*Elizabeth Kronk Warner (environmental law, Federal Indian law) from the University of Kansas to the University of Utah (to become Dean).

 

*Laura Weinrib (legal history, labor law) from the University of Chicago to Harvard University.

 

*Patricia J. Williams (critical race theory, civil rights) from Columbia University to Northeastern University.

 

*Karen E. Woody (corporate law, securities regulation) from Indiana University, Bloomington (Business School) to Washington & Lee University (Law School) (untenured lateral).

 

*Patricia J. Zettler (food & drug law, health law & policy, torts) from Georgia State University to Ohio State University (untenured lateral)