Brian Leiter's Law School Reports

10 Most-Cited Commercial Law Scholars in the U.S., 2016-2020

Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the ten most-cited law faculty in commercial law (including contracts and bankruptcy) in the U.S. for the period 2016-2020 (inclusive) (remember that the data was collected in late May/early June of 2021, and that the pre-2021 database did expand a bit since then).  Numbers are rounded to the nearest ten.    Faculty for whom roughly 75% or more of their citations (based on a sample) are in this area are listed; others with less than 75% of their citations in this field (but still a plurality) are listed in the category of "other highly cited scholars who work partly in this area."

10 Most Cited Law Faculty in Commercial Law (incl. contracts and bankruptcy)

Rank	Name	School	Citations	Age in 2021
1	Omri Ben-Shahar	University of Chicago	670	59
2	Alan Schwartz	Yale University	500	81
3	Douglas Baird	University of Chicago	430	68
	Oren Bar-Gill	Harvard University	430	46
	Adam Levitin	Georgetown University	430	45
	Steven Schwarcz	Duke University	430	72
7	Lynn LoPucki	University of California, Los Angeles	330	77
8	Ronald J. Mann	Columbia University	320	60
9	Todd  Zywicki	George Mason University	270	55
10	Anthony Casey	University of Chicago	250	44
		Other highly-cited scholars who work partly in this area
	Eric Posner	University of Chicago	2240	56
	Randy Barnett	Georgetown University	970	69
	Geoffrey Miller	New York University	870	71
	G. Mitu Gulati	University of Virginia	640	55
	David Hoffman	University of Pennsylvania	580	45

 

10 Most-Cited Tax Scholars in the U.S., 2016-2020

Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the ten most-cited tax professors in the U.S. for the period 2016-2020 (inclusive) (remember that the data was collected in late May/early June of 2021, and that the pre-2021 database did expand a bit since then).  Numbers are rounded to the nearest ten.    Faculty for whom roughly 75% or more of their citations (based on a sample) are in this area are listed; others with less than 75% of their citations in this field (but still a plurality) are listed in the category of "other highly cited scholars who work partly in this area."

Tax

Rank	Name	School	Citations	Age in 2021
1	Reuven Avi-Yonah	University of Michigan	420	64
2	Michael Graetz	Columbia University	380	77
3	David Weisbach	University of Chicago	310	58
4	Daniel Shaviro	New York University	300	64
5	Victor Fleischer	University of California, Irvine	270	50
	Lawrence Zelenak	Duke University	270	63
7	Alan Auerbach	University of California, Berkeley	210	70
	Joseph Bankman	Stanford University	210	66
9	David  Gamage	Indiana University, Bloomington	200	43
10	Leandra Lederman	Indiana University, Bloomington	190	55
	Other highly-cited scholars who work partly in this area
	Louis Kaplow	Harvard University	950	65
	Daniel Hemel	University of Chicago	500	36
	Kristin Hickman	University of Minnesota	440	51
	Brian Galle	Georgetown University	290	48
	Yair Listokin	Yale University	230	46

(A note on the limitations of the Westlaw database is worth remarking on here.  James Hines, an economist at Michigan, who holds a joint appointment in both economics and law, is a very major tax scholar, but got fewer than 190 citations in the law review database during this five year period.  During that same time period, he received more than 5,000 citations according to Google Scholar!  Of course, most of those would have been in economics, rather than law, journals, as well as books, dissertations, working papers, and journals in cognate disciplines to economics and law.  Similarly, Reuven Avi-Yonah had more than 2,500 citations according to Google Scholar for the period 2016-2020, and David Weisbach had nearly 2,000 citations according to Google Scholar.   For scholarly impact in law specifically, the Westlaw database is probably still a better metric, even if it understates total scholarly impact and even if it misses some outstanding scholarsa, like Hines.)

10 Most-Cited Law Faculty in the U.S., 2016-2020

Based on the latest Sisk data, here are the ten most-cited active law professors in the U.S. for the period 2016-2020 (inclusive) (remember that the data was collected in late May/early June of 2021, and that the pre-2021 database did expand a bit since then).  Numbers are rounded to the nearest ten.  (Law professors not teaching in 2021-22--e.g.,those who are now retired, in government service, etc.--are not included.)

Ten Most Cited Law Faculty Overall, 2016-2020

Rank	Name	School	Citations	Area(s)	Age in 2021
1	Erwin Chemerinsky	University of California, Berkeley	2470	Constitutional Law, Civil Procedure	68
2	Eric Posner	University of Chicago	2240	Law & Economics, International Law, Commercial Law, Contracts	56
3	Mark Lemley	Stanford University	1910	Intellectual Property, Antitrust, Cyberlaw	55
4	William Eskridge, Jr.	Yale University	1880	Constitutional Law, Legislation	70
5	Richard Epstein	New York University	1740	Constitutional Law, Torts, Law & Economics	78
6	Jack M. Balkin	Yale University	1640	Constitutional Law, Cyberlaw	65
7	Frederick Schauer	University of Virginia	1450	Constitutional Law, Law & Philosophy, Evidence	75
8	Akhil Amar	Yale University	1440	Constitutional Law	63
9	Richard Fallon	Harvard University	1430	Constitutional Law	69
10	Thomas Merrill	Columbia University	1380	Administrative, Constitutional, and Property Law	72

 

Chicago alumni and fellows on the teaching market, 2021-22

MOVING TO FRONT FOR LAST TIME:  ORIGINALLY POSTED AUGUST 10.  MANY THANKS TO THOSE SCHOOLS THAT HAVE ALREADY GOTTEN IN TOUCH; ADDITIONAL INQUIRIES WELCOME.

This post is strictly for schools that expect to do hiring this year.

In order to protect the privacy of our candidates, please e-mail me to get a copy of the narrative profiles of our candidates, including hyperlinks to their homepages.  All these candidates will be in the first FAR distribution.

We have a small but outstanding group of four candidates this year (two alumni, one of whom is also a Bigelow; and two additional Bigelow Fellows), who cover a diverse range of curricular areas, including constitutional law, criminal law and procedure, civil procedure, contracts, torts, corporate law, securities regulation, health law, administrative law, race & the law, federal courts, legislation, antitrust, consumer law, and bankruptcy.

Our candidates include former federal appellate clerks; Law Review editors; a JD/PhD in Government; and accomplished practitioners as well as scholars.  All have publications, sometimes multiple publications, and all have writing samples available upon request.

If when you e-mail, you tell me a bit about your hiring needs, I can supply some more information about all these candidates, since we have vetted them all.

Top 50 law faculties in scholarly impact, 2021

Professor Greg Sisk & colleagues at the University of St. Thomas have updated their scholarly impact rankings (last edition), looking at mean and median citations to tenured faculty scholarship for the years 2016-2020 inclusive, using fall 2021 faculty rosters as the benchmark (so, e.g., faculty on indefinite leave in government service are not counted).  (Sisk et al. studied 99 faculties and ranked 70; I print the top 50, below.)  The weighted score represents the sum of the mean citations for the tenured faculty times 2, plus the faculty median.  Where the median is low relative to the immediate competition that's an indicator that a few highly cited faculty are carrying the school; in other cases, where the median is quite high, it's an indicator of more across-the-boards scholarly impact.  By noting age, one can see that some faculties are heavily dependent on their most senior members for their citations.  Ties reflect the normalized weighted scores.

The citation counts were done in late May/early June of this year in the Westlaw law journals database as follows:  TE(Brian /2 Leiter) and date (aft 2015) and date (bef 2021).  "TE" limited the results to the body of the text, thus eliminating references to names in acknowledgments.  Although the searches were done in late spring/early summer, it's clear the pre-2021 database expanded slightly after then .  Across whole schools this won't matter, since the database was relatively stable during the window when the data was collected.   Professor Sisk & colleagues this year took extra steps to include authors in et al. cites (the details are in their article).

Citations to faculty scholarship in law journals are, of course, only one metric of scholarly distinction and accomplishment (for limitations of the measure, see the discussion in the Sisk article).  Still, it is a useful check on uninformed opinions, and tracks rather well the actual scholarly output of different schools.  Do remember that citation counts vary by field, which is why the ten most-cited faculty at each school is dominated by faculty in fields like constitutional and public law, corporate law, criminal law & procedure, law & economics, and intellectual property.

Over the next few months, I will post new lists of the most-cited scholars by specialty utilizing the Sisk data.

Results for the top 50 below the fold:

Table 2:  Detailed Scholarly Impact Ranking of Law Faculties, 2021

Ranking	Law School	Weighted Score	Mean	Median	10 Most Cited Scholars (* indicates 70 or older in 2021)
1	Yale University	1345	502	341	*Ackerman, B.; Amar, A.; Ayres, I.; Balkin, J.; *Eskridge, W.; Koh, H.; Macey, J.; *Post, R.; Siegel, R.; Tyler, T.
2	University of Chicago	1110	399	312	Baude, W.; Ben-Shahar, O.; Bradley, C.; Ginsburg, T.; Hemel, D.; Huq, A.; *Nussbaum, M.; Posner, E.; *Stone, G.; Strauss, D.
3	Harvard University	940	342	256	Bebchuk, L.; Fallon, R.; Goldsmith, J.; Kaplow, L.; Klarman, M.; *Kraakman, R.; Lessig, L.; Manning, J.; *Shavell, S.; Vermeule, A.;
4	New York University	921	327	267	Barkow, R.; Choi, S.; *Epstein, R.; Friedman, B.; Issacharoff, S.; *Miller, A.; *Miller, G.; Pildes, R.; Revesz, R.; Waldron, J.
5	Columbia University	814	298	218	Briffault, R.; *Coffee, J.; Crenshaw, K.; Fagan, J.; Gilson, R.; *Gordon, J.; Hamburger, P.; *Merrill, T.; Metzger, G.; Pozen, D.
6	Stanford University	752	271	210	*Friedman, L.; *Hensler, D.; Lemley, M.; McConnell, M.; O'Connell, A.; Ouellette, L.; Persily, N.; *Polinsky, A.; Sklansky, D.; Sykes, A.
6	University of California, Berkeley	749	284	181	Chemerinsky, E.; *Cooter, R.; *Farber, D.; Kerr, O.; Menell, P.; Merges, R.; *Samuelson, P.; Schwartz, P.; Solomon, S.; Yoo, J.
8	University of Pennsylvania	663	243	177	Baker, T.; *Burbank, S.; Coglianese, C.; Fisch, J.; Hoffman, D.; *Hovenkamp, H.; Parchomovsky, G.; Roberts, D.; *Robinson, P.; Skeel, D.
9	University of Virginia	646	241	164	Cahn, N.; Citron, D.; Duffy, J.; Gulati, G.; *Laycock, D.; Nelson, C.; Prakash, S.; *Schauer, F.; Solum, L.; *White, G.
9	Vanderbilt University	644	239	166	Bressman, L.; Guthrie, C.; King, N.; Rossi, J.; *Rubin, E.; Ruhl, J.B.; Sherry, S.; *Slobogin, C.; Thomas, R.; *Viscusi, W.
11	University of California, Los Angeles	605	220	165	Bainbridge, S.; Carbado, D.; Crenshaw, K.; Eagly, I.; Kang, J.; Korobkin, R.; Motomura, H.; Raustiala, K.; Volokh, E.; Winkler, A.
12	Duke University	597	213	171	Adler, M.; Blocher, J.; *Cox, J.; Garrett, B.; Helfer, L.; Lemos, M.; Rai, A.; *Schwarcz, S.; Siegel, N.; Young, E.
13	University of Michigan	545	190	165	Avi-Yonah, R.; Bagenstos, S.; Crane, D.; Eisenberg, R.; Litman, J.; *MacKinnon, C.; Primus, R.; Pritchard, A.; Schlanger, M.; *Schneider, C.
14	University of California, Irvine	537	202	133	Burk, D.; Fleischer, V.; Goodwin, M.; Hasen, R.; Leslie, C.; *Menkel-Meadow, C.; Moran, R.; Reese, R.; Shaffer, G.; Simons, K.
15	Northwestern University	528	198	132	*Allen, R.; Black, B.; Calabresi, S.; Dana, D.; *Diamond, S.; Kang, M.; Koppelman, A.; McGinnis, J.; Pfander, J.; *Redish, M.; Schwartz, D.
15	Cornell University	527	188	151	Blume, J.; *Clermont, K.; Dorf, M.; Grimmelmann, J.; *Hans, V.; Heise, M.; Johnson, S.; Ohlin, J.; Rachlinski, J.; Sherwin, E.; Tebbe, N.
17	Georgetown University	514	185	144	Barnett, R.; Butler, P.; Cohen, J.; *Gostin, L.; Katyal, N.; *Langevoort, D.; Levitin, A.; *Luban, D.; Ohm, P.; *Thompson, R.; West, R.
18	George Washington University	472	176	120	Abramowicz, M.; Braman, D.; Colby, T.; Glicksman, R.; Kovacic, W.; Lee, C.; Murphy, S.; *Pierce, R.; Rosen, J.; Solove, D.
18	University of Texas, Austin	471	169	133	*Bone, R.; Chesney, R.; Forbath, W.; Golden, J.; *Levinson, S.; *McGarity, T.; *Sager, L.; Spence, D.; Vladeck, S.; Wagner, W.
18	University of Minnesota	468	163	142	Carbone, J.; Cotter, T.; Hickman, K.; Hill, C.; Klass, A.; *Kritzer, H.; McDonnell, B.; Painter, R.; Schwarcz, D.; *Tonry, M.
21	Washington University, St. Louis	440	163	114	*Appleton, S.; Epstein, L.; Inazu, J.; *Joy, P.; Kim, P.; Kuehn, R.; *Levin, R.; Richards, N.; *Seligman, J.; Tamanaha, B.
22	University of California, Davis	435	165	105	Bhagwat, A.; Chin, G.; Dodge, W.; Horton, D.; Joh, E.; Johnson, K.; Joslin, C.; Lee, P.; Pruitt, L.; Shanske, D.
23	George Mason University	420	154	112	Bernstein, D.; Butler, H.; Garoupa, N.; Kobayashi, B.; Kontorovich, E.; Mossoff, A.; *Muris, T.; Somin, I.; Wright, J.; Zywicki, T.
23	Fordham University	414	151	112	*Brudney, J.; Capers, B.; Davidson, N.; Green, B.; Griffith, S.; Huntington, C.; Leib, E.; Pearce, R.; Pfaff, J.; Zipursky, B.
23	Boston University	411	146	119	*Annas, G.; Beermann, J.; Fleming, J.; Gordon, W.; Hylton, K.; Lawson, G.; Maclin, T.; McClain, L.; Meurer, M.; Onwuachi-Willig, A.;
23	University of St. Thomas (MN)	410	145	120	Berg, T.; *Hamilton, N.; *Johnson, L.; Kaal, W.; Nichols, J.; Organ, J.; Osler, M.; Paulsen, M.; Sisk, G.; Vischer, R.
27	University of Arizona	387	130	127	Bambauer, D.; Bambauer, J.; Bublick, E.; Coan, A.; Engel, K.; Massaro, T.; Miller, M.; Orbach, B.; Puig, S.; Tsosie, R.; *Williams, R.
27	College of William & Mary	384	130	124	Bellin, J.; Bruhl, A.; Criddle, E.; Devins, N.; Gershowitz, A.; Ibrahim, D.; Larsen, A.; *Marcus, P.; Oman, N.; Spencer, A.; Zick, T.
29	University of Southern California	382	131	120	Barnett, J.; Barry, J.; Craig, R.; Estrich, S.; Guzman, A.; Klerman, D.; McCaffery, E.; Rasmussen, R.; Roithmayr, D.; Simkovic, M.; Simon, D.; Sokol, D.
30	University of San Diego	367	149	69	*Alexander, L.; Bell, A.; Dripps, D.; Hirsch, A.; Lobel, O.; Ramsey, M.; Rappaport, M.; Schapiro, R.; Sichelman, T.; Smith, S.;
31	University of Notre Dame	346	120	106	Alford, R.; Bellia, A.; Bray, S.; Cushman, B.; Garnett, R.; Kozel, R.; Miller, P.; *Newton, N.; O'Connell, M.; Pojanowski, J.; Tidmarsh, J.
31	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	344	127	90	Amar, V.; *Finkin, M.; Heald, P.; Kesan, J.; Lawless, R.; Mazzone, J.; *Moore, M.; Robbennolt, J.; Thomas, S.; Wilson, R.
33	Cardozo Law School/Yeshiva University	340	122	96	Buccafusco, C.; Gilles, M.; Herz, M.; Markowitz, P.; Reinert, A.; *Rosenfeld, M.; *Scheck, B.; Sebok, A.; Sterk, S.; *Zelinsky, E.
33	Brooklyn Law School	338	126	86	Araiza, W.; Baer, M.; Bernstein, A.; Gold, A.; Janger, E.; *Karmel, R.; Pasquale, F.; Ristroph, A.; *Schneider, E.; Simonson, J.; Solan, L.
33	University of Colorado, Boulder	336	112	112	Anaya, S.; Carpenter, K.; Gerding, E.; Gruber, A.; Huang, P.; Kaminski, M.; Krakoff, S.; *Mueller, C.; Norton, H.; Peppet, S.; Schlag, P.; Schwartz, A.; Surden, H.
36	Case Western Reserve University	325	127	71	Adler, J.; Berg, J.; Hill, B.; Hoffman, S.; Korsmo, C.; Ku, R.; Nard, C.; Perzanowski, A.; Robertson, C.; Scharf, M.
36	University of Utah	326	115	96	Adler, R.; Anghie, A.; Baughman, S.; Cassell, P.; Contreras, J.; *Francis, L.; Jones, R.; *Keiter, R.; Peterson, C.; Tokson, M.; Warner, E.
36	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	323	117	89	Ardia, D.; *Conley, J.; Coyle, J.; Gerhardt, M.; *Hazen, T.; Hessick, C.; Hessick, F.; Jacoby, M.; *Marshall, W.; Nichol, G.; Papandrea, M.
36	Emory University	317	114	89	Dudziak, M.; *Fineman, M.; Freer, R.; Holbrook, T.; Hutchinson, D.; Nash, J.; *Perry, M.; Shepherd, J.; Volokh, A.; Witte, J.
40	University of Kansas	311	108	95	Bhala, R.; Drahozal, C.; Harper Ho, V.; Hoeflich, M.; Levy, R.; Mulligan, L.; Outka, U.; Stacy, T.; Torrance, A.; Ware, S.; Yung, C.
40	University of California, Hastings College of Law	305	112	81	Depoorter, B.; Dodson, S.; Faigman, D.; Feldman, R.; *Marcus, R.; Mattei, U.; Owen, D.; Price, Z.; Schiller, R.; Williams, J.
40	Chicago-Kent College of Law/Illinois Institute of Technology	304	101	102	Baker, K.; Dinwoodie, G.; Katz, D.; Kim, N.; Krent, H.; Lee, E.; Marder, N.; Reilly, G.; Rosen, M.; Schmidt, C.
43	Ohio State University	300	108	84	Akbar, A.; Berman, D.; Chow, D.; Cole, S.; Colker, R.; Davies, L.; Foley, E.; Hernández, C.; Simmons, R.; Walker, C.
43	University of Alabama	293	116	61	Andreen, W.; Carroll, J.; *Delgado, R.; Elliott, H.; Grove, T.; Hamill, S.; Hill, J.; Horwitz, P.; Krotoszynski, R.; *Stefancic, J.; Steinman, A.
43	University of Georgia	289	98	93	Barnett, K.; Bruner, C.; Burch, E.; Cade, J.; Chapman, N.; Coenen, D.; Cohen, H.; Leonard, E.; Polsky, G.; Rodrigues, U.; Rutledge, P.; *Wells, M.; West, S.
46	American University	287	105	77	Anderson, J.; Daskal, J.; Davis, A.; Fairfax, R.; Ferguson, A.; Franck, S.; Frost, A.; *Robbins, I.; Roberts, J.; Wiley, L.
46	Florida State University	278	103	72	Abbott, F.; Bayern, S.; Hsu, S.; Landau, D.; Logan, W.; O’Hara O’Connor, E.; Ryan, E.; Seidenfeld, M.; Stern, N.; Ziegler, M.
46	University of Maryland, Baltimore	278	100	78	*Colbert, D.; Ertman, M.; Gifford, D.; Goodmark, L.; Graber, M.; Gray, D.; Percival, R.; Pinard, M.; Ram, N.; Stearns, M.; Steinzor, R.; Tu, K.
49	Temple University	275	100	75	Arewa, O.; Burris, S.; Dunoff, J.; Gugliuzza, P.; Hollis, D.; Lin, T.; Lipson, J.; Mandel, G.; Ramji-Nogales, J.; Rogers, B.; Spiro, P.
49	Brigham Young University	268	97	74	Asay, C.; Fee, J.; *Fleming, J.; Gedicks, F.; Hurt, C.; Jensen, E.; Nielson, A.; Scharffs, B.; Smith, D.; Sun, L.
49	Wake Forest University	265	103	59	Aiken, J.; Chavis, K.; *Green, M.; Hall, M.; Knox, J.; Palmiter, A.; Parks, G.; *Shapiro, S.; Taylor, M.; Wright, R.

 

University of Chicago Law School now accepting applications for Bigelow Fellowships

You can apply here.   You can see the academic placement of past Bigelow Fellows here (scroll down).

US News is *not* going to produce its own scholarly impact rankings using HeinOnLine

A recent article made me realize that it is not generally known that USNews.com has decided not to try to produce its own scholarly impact ranking, which will (happily) leave the field to Professor Gregory Sisk and colleagues at the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota) (their new study should be out next week).   Prior iterations of the Sisk study have already had a significant influence on faculty hiring, including at the University of Virginia--but more on that next week.

Ten lateral faculty moves that made law professors take notice during 2020-21

Based on my in-box and conversations with others, these were the ten moves that transpired this year that were thought to be the biggest hiring coups (I omit any lateral moves that won't officially happen until 2022):

 

*Shyamkrishna Balganesh (intellectual property, private law theory) from the University of Pennsylvania to Columbia University (effective January 2021).

 

*Curtis A. Bradley (international law, foreign affairs law, federal courts) from Duke University to the University of Chicago.

 

*Jennifer Chacon (immimgration law, constitutional law, criminal law & procedure) from the University of California, Los Angeles to the University of California, Berkeley.

 

*Danielle Citron (privacy, civil rights, freedom of expression, Internet law) from Boston University to the University of Virginia (effective January 2021).

 

*Robin Kundis Craig (environmental law, water law) from the University of Utah to the University of Southern California.

*Joseph Fishkin (constitutional law, employment discrimination, election law, equal opportunity) from the University of Texas, Austin to the University of California, Los Angeles.

 

*Cary Franklin (constitutional law, antidiscrimination law, legal history) from the University of Texas, Austin to the University of California, Los Angeles.

 

*G. Mitu Gulati (contracts, sovereign debt, law & economics, empirical legal studies, race/gender & law) from Duke University to the University of Virginia.

 

*Ran Hirschl (comparative constitutional law) from the University of Toronto to the University of Texas, Austin (joint with Government Department).

 

*Bertrall Ross (election law, constitutional law, legislation) from the University of California, Berkeley to the University of Virginia.

Standards Committee ignores critics, and does what it wants

What an embarrassment.  (Criticisms of the proposed changes available here including from all the Sterling Professors at Yale Law School, as well as David Bernstein [George Mason], Eric Biber [Berkeley], Thomas Gallanis [Iowa], Alan Z. Rozenshtein [Minnesota], and Steven Davidsoff Solomon [Berkeley], among others--direct link to all comments here.)  The Committee has obviously been captured by special interests, who are more concerned with posturing than the costs it is imposing on law schools.  If this wasteful and ill-considered proposal is to be stopped, it will have to be at the next stages.

ADDENDUM:  Twitter commentary from Professors Jonathan Adler (Case Western) and David Hoffman (Penn).  (UPDATE:  Prof. Hoffman emails to tell me his tweets auto-delete after only a day, so his comment is no longer there.  My tweets auto-delete after a couple of months [2 or 3 months, I can't now remember how I set it], but after 24 hours is a new record!)

ANOTHER:   Everyone's favorite Twitter buffoon thinks that anyone skeptical about the ABA proposals must not be serious about "racism in legal education."  I hope the Sterling Professors at Yale will take note, not to mention his colleague Professor Rozenshtein!

Lateral hires with tenure or on tenure-track, 2020-21

These are non-clinical appointments that will take effect in 2021 (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.  This is the final iteration of the list for the 2020-21 laterals season.

 

*Atinuke Adediran (legal profession, law & social science) from Boston College to Fordham University (untenured lateral).

 

*Aziza Ahmed (health law, constitutional law, gender/race & law) from Northeastern University to the University of California, Irvine.

 

*Ifeoma Ajunwa (law & technology, race & law, labor & employment law, health law) from Cornell University (Industrial & Labor Relations School) to the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (effective January 2021).

 

*Alena Allen (health law, torts, feminist legal theory) from University of Memphis to University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.

 

*Kate Andrias (labor, administrative & constitutional law) from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor to Columbia University.

 

*Shyamkrishna Balganesh (intellectual property, private law theory) from the University of Pennsylvania to Columbia University (effective January 2021).

 

*Jordan Barry (corporate & securities law, tax, law & economics) from the University of San Diego to the University of Southern California.

 

*Susan Bisom-Rapp (international and comparative employment law, labor law, employment discrimination) from Thomas Jefferson School of Law to California Western School of Law.

*Maggie Blackhawk (legislation, constitutional law, federal Indian law) from the University of Pennsylvania to New York University.

 

*Curtis A. Bradley (international law, foreign affairs law, federal courts) from Duke University to the University of Chicago.

 

*Sara Bronin (property, land use, historic preservation, energy law) from the University of Connecticut to Cornell University (College of Architecture, Art & Planning, and Assocated Faculty in the Law School).

 

*John R. Brooks (tax law & policy) from Georgetown University to Fordham University (starting fall 2022).

 

*Jay Butler (international business transactions, corporate law) from the College of William & Mary to the University of Virginia.

 

*Nancy Chi Cantalupo (civil rights, human rights, sex discrimination) from California Western School of Law to Wayne State University (untenured lateral).

 

*Jennifer Chacon (immimgration law, constitutional law, criminal law & procedure) from the University of California, Los Angeles to the University of California, Berkeley.

 

*Guy-Uriel Charles (constitutional law, election law, race & law) from Duke University to Harvard University.

 

*Vincent Chiao (criminal law & procedure, legal theory, political philosophy) from the University of Toronto to the University of Richmond.

 

*Danielle Citron (privacy, civil rights, freedom of expression, Internet law) from Boston University to the University of Virginia (effective January 2021).

 

*Kimberly Clausing (public finance, tax, international trade) from Reed College (Economics) to the University of California, Los Angeles.

 

*Amy Cohen (ADR, mediation, property, law & development) from Ohio State University to Temple University.

 

*Robin Kundis Craig (environmental law, water law) from the University of Utah to the University of Southern California.

 

*Colin Crawford (environmental law, land use) from the University of Louisville (where he is Dean) to Golden Gate University (to become Dean).

 

*John Czarnetzky (bankruptcy, corporate) from the University of Mississippi to Ave Maria School of Law (to become Dean).

 

*Meera Deo (legal education, race & law, law & society) from Thomas Jefferson Law School to Southwestern School of Law.

 

*Darby Dickerson (legal writing) from UIC John Marshall Law School (where she is Dean) to Southwestern Law School (to become Dean).

 

*Stephanie Holmes Didwania (criminal law & procedure, intellectual property, empirical legal studies, law & economics) from Temple University to University of Wisconsin, Madison (untenured lateral).

 

*Deborah Dinner (legal history, employment discrimination, family law) from Emory University to Cornell University.

 

*Tonya Evans (intellectual property, trusts & estates, entertainment law) from the University of New Hampshire to Pennsylania State University-Dickinson School of Law.

 

*Lisa Fairfax (corporate, securities) from George Washington University to the University of Pennsylvania.

 

*Roger A. Fairfax, Jr. (criminal law & procedure, criminal justice administration) from George Washington University to American University (to become Dean).

 

*Joseph Fishkin (constitutional law, employment discrimination, election law, equal opportunity) from the University of Texas, Austin to the University of California, Los Angeles.

 

*Pamela Foohey (bankruptcy, commercial law, consumer law) from Indiana University, Bloomington to Cardozo Law School/Yeshiva University.

 

*Cynthia Fountaine (civil rights, civil procedure, federal courts) from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale to the University of North Texas.

 

*Cary Franklin (constitutional law, antidiscrimination law, legal history) from the University of Texas, Austin to the University of California, Los Angeles.

 

*César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández (criminal law, immigration law) from the University of Denver to Ohio State University.

 

*Jonathan Glater (education law & policy, disability law) from the University of California, Los Angeles to the University of California, Berkeley.

 

*Kevin Greene (intellectual property, entertainment law) from Thomas Jefferson School f Law to Southwestern Law School (effective January 2021).

 

*Linda Greene (constitutional law, civil rights, sports law) from the University of Wisconsin, Madison to Michigan State University (to become Dean).

 

*Caleb Griffin (corporate law, contracts) from Belmont University to University of Arkansas, Fayetteville (untenured lateral).

 

*G. Mitu Gulati (contracts, sovereign debt, law & economics, empirical legal studies, race/gender & law) from Duke University to the University of Virginia.

 

*Jasmine E. Harris (law & inequality, disability law, evidence) from the University of California, Davis to the University of Pennsylvania.

 

*Ran Hirschl (comparative constitutional law) from the University of Toronto to the University of Texas, Austin (joint with Government Department).

 

*Darren Hutchinson (civil rights, law & inequality, critical race theory) from the University of Florida, Gainesville to Emory University.

 

*Lolita Buckner Inniss (legal history, gender & law, critical race theory) from Southern Methodist University to the University of Colorado, Boulder (to become Dean).

 

*Jason Iuliano (contracts, commercial law, consumer law) from Villanova University to the University of Utah (untenured lateral).

 

*Osamudia James (administrative law, race & law, education law) from the University of Miami to the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

 

*Jamila Jefferson-Jones (property, real estate transactions, housing law) from the University of Missouri-Kansas City to Wayne State University.  

 

*Kristin Johnson (financial regulation, securities regulation) from Tulane University to Emory University (effective January 2021).

 

*Michael J. Kaufman (civil procedure, education law) from Loyola University, Chicago (where he is Dean) to Santa Clara University (to become Dean).

 

*Melvin Kelley (property, fair housing, critical race theory) from Villanova University to Northeastern University (untenured lateral).

 

*Madhav Khosla (Indian constitutional law, comparative constitutional law) from Ashoka University (India) to Columbia University (untenured lateral, effective January 1, 2022).

 

*Nancy Kim (law & technology, contracts, commercial law) from California Western School of Law to Chicago-Kent College of Law/Illinois Institute of Technology.

 

*Ariel Jurow Kleiman (tax) from the University of San Diego to Loyola Law School, Los Angeles.

 

*Craig Konnoth (health law, law & sexuality) from the University of Colorado, Boulder to the University of Virginia.

 

*Kimberly Krawiec (corporate) from Duke University to the University of Virginia.

 

*Anita Krishnakumar (legislation and statutory interpretation) from St. John's University to Georgetown University.

 

*Guha Krishnamurthi (criminal law & procedure, constitutional law, jurisprudence) from South Texas College of Law to the University of Oklahoma, Norman (untenured lateral).

 

*Margaret Kwoka (administrative law, civil procedure, federal courts) from the University of Denver to Ohio State University.

 

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

 

*Stacy Leeds (Federal Indian law) from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville to Arizona State University (effective January 2021).

*Steven Macias (legal history, constitutional law) from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale to the University of South Dakota.

 

*Mason Marks (health law, law & technology, regulated industries, civil procedure, constitutional law) from Gonzaga University to the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law (untenured lateral). 

 

*Sandra Mayson (criminal law, evidence) from the University of Georgia to the University of Pennsylvania.

 

*Mark McKenna (intellectual property, privacy law) from the University of Notre Dame to the University of California, Los Angeles.

 

*Joy Milligan (civil rights, anti-discrimination law, civil procedure) from the University of California, Berkeley to the University of Virginia.

 

*Seema Mohapatra (health law) from Indiana University, Indianapolis to St. John's University.

 

*Jamelia Morgan (criminal law, Critical Race Theory, disability law) from the University of Connecticut to the University of California, Irvine (untenured lateral).

 

*Hari Osofsky (environmental and energy law, climate change) from Pennsylvania State University-University Park (where she is Dean) to Northwestern University (to become Dean).

 

*Eduardo Penalver (property) from Cornell University (where he is currently Dean) to Seattle University (to become President of the University).

 

*Ngai Pindel (property, housing law and policy, local government law) from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas to the University of British Columbia (to become Dean).

 

*Susan Poser (legal ethics/legal profession) from the University of Illinois, Chicago (where she is Provost) to Hofstra University (to become President of the University).

 

*D. Theodore Rave (civil procedure, constitutional law, election law) from the University of Houston to the University of Texas, Austin.

 

*LaVonda Reed (wills & trusts, property, communication law) from Syracuse University to Georgia State University (to become Dean).

 

*L. Song Richardson (criminal law & procedure, law & social science) from the University of California, Irvine (where she is Dean) to Colorado College (to become President of the College).

 

*Amelia Rinehart (intellectual property) from the University of Utah to West Virginia University (to become Dean).

 

*Christopher Robinette (torts, products liability) from Widener University, Commonwealth to Southwestern Law School.

 

*Keith Robinson (intellectual property, patents, law & technology) from Southern Methodist University to Wake Forest University.

 

*Shannon Roesler (environmental law, land use, torts) from Oklahoma City University to the University of Iowa.

 

*Brishen Rogers (labor & employment law, law &technology) from Temple University to Georgetown University.

 

*Catherine Rogers (international arbitration, international business transactions) from Pennsylvania State University, University Park to Bocconi University (Milan).

 

*Maybell Romero (criminal law & procedure) from Northern Illinois University to Tulane University (untenured lateral).

 

*Darren Rosenblum (corporate, international business transactions) from Pace University to McGill University.

 

*Bertrall Ross (election law, constitutional law, legislation) from the University of California, Berkeley to the University of Virginia.

 

*Jennifer Rothman (intellectual property) from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles to the University of Pennsylvania.

 

*Stephen Sachs (constitutional law, civil procedure) from Duke University to Harvard University.

 

*Emily Satterthwaite (tax) from the University of Toronto to Georgetown University.

 

*Melissa Scanlan (environmental law, water law) from Vermont Law School to the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (School of Freshwater Sciences).

 

*Robert Schapiro (civil procedure, constitutional law, federal courts) from Emory University to the University of San Diego (to become Dean).

 

*Sarah Schindler (land use, property, local government law) from the University of Maine to the University of Denver (effective January 2021).

 

*Amy Schmitz (alternative dispute resolution, law & technology, consumer law) from the University of Missouri, Columbia to Ohio State University (effective January 2022).

 

*Sean Seymore (intellectual property, law & science) from Vanderbilt University to the University of Notre Dame.

 

*Jessica Silbey (intellectual property, law & society) from Northeastern University to Boston University (effective January 2021).

 

*D. Daniel Sokol (antitrust, corporate) from the University of Florida, Gainesville to the University of Southern California.

 

*Douglas Spencer (election law) from the University of Connecticut to the University of Colorado, Boulder.

 

*Nancy Staudt (tax) from Washington University, St. Louis (where she is Dean) to RAND Graduate School (to become Dean).

 

*Julie Suk (law and gender, comparative law) from City University of New York Graduate Center (Sociology & Political Science) to Fordham University.

 

*India Thusi (criminal law & procedure, constitutional law, critical race theory, feminist legal theory) from Widener University, Delaware to Indiana University, Bloomington.

 

*Etienne Toussaint (contracts, corporate, commercial law) from the University of the District of Columbia to the University of South Carolina (untenured lateral).

 

*Robert Tsai (constitutional law, legal history) from American University to Boston University (effective January 2021).

 

*Kristen Underhill (health law and policy) from Columbia University (untenured) to Cornell University (with tenure).

 

*Jacob Victor (intellectual property, law & technology) from Albany Law School to Rutgers University (untenured lateral).

 

*Lindsay Wiley (health law) from American University to University of California, Los Angeles (effective January 2022).

 

*Lua Kamal Yuille (property, corporate, immigration, critical race theory) from the University of Kansas to Northeastern University (joint with Business School).