Moments after the last posting, I learn that NYU's Michael Schill, an expert in legal issues related to real estate and urban planning, will be the new Dean of the law school at UCLA. The press release is here.
This caps a brutal year for NYU, in which the law school lost two of its star recruits of recent years to Deanships (Schill had been recruited from Penn, and Kramer, who had been recruited from Michigan, is leaving for Stanford); is losing its top young corporate scholar, Robert Daines, to Stanford; and lost Henry Hansmann, another top corporate and law and economics scholar, back to Yale after less than a year.
CORRECTION: NYU's Richard Pildes, a leading constitutional law and voting rights scholar, does have an offer from Harvard Law School, but has not yet accepted it. Sorry for that error!
UPDATE: Stephen Bainbridge (UCLA, Law) notes that I have commented on NYU's fortunes, but not UCLA's in landing Schill as Dean. While it's a "plus" in the abstract to land as Dean an accomplished scholar from a stronger school, the simple truth about Deanships is that the job is so hard, and requires skills so unrelated to scholarly aptitude, that it is impossible to comment on decanal choices unless one really knows the candidate well, meaning, at least, personally and via professiona interactions. I have no knowledge of Professor Schill in the relevant contexts. If anything, it is more likely that Steve Bainbridge has insight on this score, from the interview process. So what sayeth Steve?
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