A big catch for Arizona State University's College of Law: they have recruited Kenneth Abbott, a leading scholar of international trade law, from Northwestern's (troubled) law school, where he had taught for more than 25 years.
This is the latest in a long series of embarrassing senior departures from Northwestern's law school.
Meanwhile, Arizona State University's College of Law clearly has to be added to the list of traditionally more "regional" law schools that now have top faculties; others include, of course, Chicago-Kent College of Law, George Mason University, University of San Diego, and Florida State University. In addition to Professor Abbott, other major lateral recruitments at ASU in recent years include Robert Clinton (constitutional law, Federal Indian Law) and Michael Saks (law & psychology) from the University of Iowa, and Robert Gorman, a preeminent labor law scholar, who retired early from the University of Pennsylvania.
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