Voting Rights and Procedure Expert Issacharoff from Columbia to NYU

Samuel Issacharoff, a leading authority on voting rights and civil procedure at Columbia Law School, has accepted the senior offer from New York University.  This marks the first time since roughly the late 1980s that there has been any lateral movement between the two New York schools, and the first time (ever, to my knowledge) that NYU has dislodged a senior faculty member from Columbia.  That's a big coup for NYU, which has suffered a number of significant losses in the last couple of years.  (NYU students will also be pleased to know that Issacharoff (who was my colleague here in the 1990s) is also a very popular and successful teacher.)