NYU Law Makes Offer to Public Law Expert Hills at Michigan

New York University School of Law has voted out an offer to Roderick Hills, Jr. (constitutional law, local government law) at the University of Michigan Law School.  In the public law area, NYU has recently lost Daryl Levinson to Harvard, and two other NYU faculty have offers from Harvard and Yale, respectively:  Richard Pildes and Noah Feldman.  Hills, meanwhile, is the leading public law specialist on the Michigan Law faculty, which has lost a number of faculty to the two leading New York law schools in recent years (Pildes and Deborah Malamud moved from Michigan to NYU; Debra Livingston, Merritt Fox, and Michael Heller left Michigan for Columbia).  Another young Michigan public law theorist, Richard Primus, has been visiting recently at both Columbia and NYU.