Brian Leiter's Law School Reports

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).

 

*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.

 

*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).

 

*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).

 

*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.

 

*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.

 

*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.

 

*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.

 

*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).

 

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

 

*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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We have a new Dean: Adam Chilton

I'm delighted with this outcome.  I should note we had three remarkable finalists, all outstanding, so we were very fortunate indeed.  (A public "thank you" to my colleague Jonathan Masur who led the Dean Search Committee, and did a great job!) 

As Professor Chilton comments in the preceding news release:  "I strongly believe that the University of Chicago Law School is the world’s most academically outstanding and rigorous law school, and it is an extraordinary honor to lead it."  Just yesterday, President Trump wrote about a judicial nominee that she went to "the University of Chicago, one of the best Law Schools in the World."   I assume, with the choice of Professor Chilton, President Trump's future social media messages will drop the "one of" part!

Psychologist and law professor Phoebe Ellsworth (emerita, Michigan) elected to the National Academy of Sciences

Here.

775 law professors file amici brief in support of Susman Godfrey's battle with federal tyranny

Here.

Seven law professors elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

They are:  Deborah Archer (NYU), Oona Hathaway (Yale), Kenneth Mack (Harvard), Liam Murphy (NYU), Daniel Rodriguez (Northwestern), Edward Rubin (Vanderbilt), and Kevin Washburn (Iowa).

Corporate Practice Commentator's "top 10" corporate & securities articles for 2024

The selected articles are:

Contract Production in M&A Markets, 171 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1881-1924 (2023), Choi, Stephen J; Gulati, Mitu; Jennejohn, Mathew; Scott, Robert E.

Corporate Racial Responsibility, 124 Colum. L. Rev. 361-430 (2024), Fletcher, Gina-Gail S; Lovelace, H. Timothy Jr.

Gender and the Social Structure of Exclusion in U.S. Corporate Law, 90 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1819-1888 (2023), Afsharipour, Afra; Jennejohn, Mathew

Paying for Performance? Attorneys’ Fees in Fraud Class Actions, 21 J. Empirical Legal Stud. 899-926 (2024), Choi, Stephen; Erickson, Jessica M.; Pritchard. A.C.

The Administrative Origins of Mandatory Disclosure, 40 J. Corp. L. 1143-1200 (2024), Platt, Alexander I.

The Lost Promise of Private Ordering, 109 Cornell L. Rev. 1-62 (2023), Hwang, Cathy; Nili, Yaron; McClane, Jeremy

The Making and Meaning of ESG, 14 Harv. Bus. L. Rev. 403-453 (2024), Pollman, Elizabeth

The Rise of Private Equity Continuation Funds, 172 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1601-1666 (2024), Kastiel, Kobi; Nili, Yaron

The Sea Corporation, 108 Cornell L. Rev. 1569-1638 (2023), Anderson, Robert

Voting Rights in Corporate Governance: History and Political Economy, 96 S. Cal. L. Rev. 881-942 (2023), Haan, Sarah C.

 

Columbia law professors explain why Trump's "Title VI" demand letter to Columbia...

...violates both Title VI and the Constitution.  One may hope this forms the basis for the legal action the university needs to file against Trump this week.

Victory for UIC law professor Jason Kilborn in the 7th Circuit

Here.  As Prof. Keith Whittington explains, this is a significant victory for academic freedom rights of faculty.

 

More on the LSU law academic freedom case

MOVING TO FRONT FROM JANUARY 30--VARIOUS UPDATES ON THE CASE AT THE LINK, BELOW

Here.

Hawaii, LSU embroiled in academic freedom problems

The Hawaii case is clear-cut:  the law school acted wrongfully and violated the academic freedom rights of the professor.  The administrators at the University of Hawaii need a lesson in core AAUP academic freedom principles.  The LSU case is ambiguous at this stage, but highly suspicious.  Faculty do not have a right to discuss unrelated political topics during classtime, but they certainly have the right to discuss political issues, even controversial ones, relevant to the subject-matter.  Given that Louisiana Governor Landry is an open enemy of the First Amendment and academic freedom, one suspects the worst.