Wednesday, July 7, 2004

Brian Leiter examines law faculty moves at the top 18 law schools over the past five years and ranks the schools in five categories:

• Schools That Improved the Most: UCLA, Texas, Vanderbilt, Virginia, Yale
• Schools That Gained Some Ground: Columbia, Duke, Penn
• Schools That Broke Even: Georgetown, NYU, USC
• Schools That Lost Some Ground: Cal-Berkeley, Chicago, Harvard, Stanford
• Schools That Lost the Most Ground: Cornell, Michigan, Northwestern

Here are the Tax Prof moves that contributed to these results:

• Cal-Berkeley lost John McNulty
• Chicago lost Elizabeth Garrett
• Columbia lost Lawrence Zelenak
• Cornell lost Lilly Kahng
• Duke added Lawrence Zelenak
• Georgetown added William Bratton and Ethan Yale
• Harvard lost Diane Ring
• NYU added Lily Batchelder and lost Paul McDaniel
• Texas added Robert Peroni and lost Joseph Dodge
• UCLA added Steven Bank, Victor Fleischer, and Samuel Thompson, and lost Michael Asimow
• USC added Elizabeth Garrett
• Vanderbilt added Beverly Moran
• Virginia added Mitchell Kane