Major Law Faculty Moves, 2003-04 (with corrections)

THIS IS A CORRECTED VERSION OF AN EARLIER POSTING

Here it is, by school, for 2003-04. This list attempts to be comperehensive for the top 30 schools (as measured by faculty quality); updates or corrections would be welcome. (Most, but not all of the moves noted below, took place before the survey on faculty quality; a few exceptions are noted at the end.)

Yale University
Yochai Benkler from New York University (intellectual property).
Richard Brooks (untenured) from Northwestern University (law & economics)
Robert Post from the University of California, Berkeley (constitutional law).

Harvard University
none

University of Chicago
none

Stanford University
none

Columbia University
Merritt Fox from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (corporate law)
Thomas Merrill from Northwestern University (administrative and environmnetal law, property)
William Simon from Stanford University (legal ethics)

New York University
Henry Hansmann from Yale University (corporate law, law & economics)
Deborah Malamud from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (labor law)
Stephen Perry from the University of Pennsylvania (torts, jurisprudence)

University of California, Berkeley
Jonathan Simon from the University of Miami (law & social science)
Offer outstanding to Rebecca Eisenberg (intellectual property) at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
none known, but offer outstanding to Steven Ratner (international law) at the University of Texas, Austin.

University of Texas, Austin
John Deigh from Northwestern University (ethics, jurisprudence)
Ronald Mann from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (commercial law, intellectual property)
Robert Peroni from George Washington University (tax)

University of Virginia
Jack Goldsmith III from the University of Chicago (international)

University of Pennsylvania
Chris Sanchirico from the University of Virginia (evidence, law & economics)

Georgetown University
William Bratton from George Washington University (corporate law)

University of Southern California
Catherine Fisk from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles (employment/labor)
Elizabeth Garrett from the University of Chicago (legislation, administrative)
Gillian Hadfield from the University of Toronto (law & economics)
Andrei Marmor (half-time) from the the Interdisciplinary Center in Hertzlia (Israel) (jurisprudence)

Cornell University
Michael Heise from Case Western Reserve University (law & social science, education law)
Offer outstanding to Bradley Wendel (legal ethics) at Washington & Lee University.

Northwestern University
Emerson Tiller from the Business School, University of Texas, Austin (positive political theory)

University of California, Los Angeles
Steven Bank from Florida State University (tax)

Duke University
Stuart Benjamin from the University of Texas, Austin (administrative, constitutional, telecommunications) (Rai's spouse)
Arti Rai (untenured) from the University of Pennsylvania (health law, intellectual property) (Benjamin's spouse)
Lawrence Zelenak from Columbia University (tax)

Vanderbilt University
none known

Boston University
none known

University of Iowa
none known

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
none known

George Washington University
John Duffy from the College of William & Mary (intellectual property, telecommunications)

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
none known

University of San Diego
Lawrence Solum from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles (constitutional, jurisprudence, intellectual property)

University of Wisconsin, Madison
none known

Fordham University
none known

George Mason University
none known

Cardozo Law School/Yeshiva University
none known

Emory University
Martha Fineman from Cornell University (family law, feminist legal theory)
Michael Perry from Wake Forest University (constitutional)

University of California, Hastings
none known

Washington University, St. Louis
none known, but offer outstanding to Michael Abramowicz (law & economics, intellectual property) at George Mason University, who is currently visiting at George Washington University.

Outside the top 30, Ohio State University had the most notable year for lateral hiring, including Ellen Deason (alternative dispute resolution) from the University of Illinois; Larry Garvin (contracts, commercial law) from Florida State University; Dale Oesterle (corporate law) from the University of Colorado at Boulder; and Peter Shane (administrative law) from Carnegie-Mellon University.

A few editorial observations:

Some of the faculty moves transpired after the faculty quality survey and might have affected the results. Four main cases, in my view:

Henry Hansmann's move from Yale to NYU might have boosted NYU--it certainly would have boosted NYU in the business law fields, where it did quite well in any case.

Thomas Merrill's move from Northwestern to Columbia, together with William Simon's move from Stanford to Columbia, might have boosted Columbia; it almost cerrtainly would have lowered Northwestern's score, since Merrill was, arguably, the most distinguished faculty member at Northwestern (or one of the two or three most eminent). (Richard Speidel, in commercial law, one of the other leading scholars on the Northwestern faculty has retired, a fact not reflected in the survey either.)

Martha Fineman's move from Cornell to Emory might have boosted Emory's overall score. Certainly Emory had the most dramatic hiring success this year, picking off not only Fineman, but Michael Perry, who taught for many years at Northwestern, before accepting a University Chair at Wake Forest.

Ohio State should certainly have done better, if the faculty roster in the survey had reflected the four hires noted above; alas, it did not.

Michigan continues to suffer from faculty retention problems.

It was somewhat surprising that even with its strong set of hires this year--all accounted for in the faculty quality survey--Duke still came in at 17th.