Tax Prof Bridget J. Crawford (Pace) proposes that law school faculty recuitment emulate medical school matching programs for residents:

The main beneficiaries of a matching system would be schools that historically have difficulty in recruiting their first, second, or even third-choice candidate. Might women of all colors and other “outsiders” fare better under a matching system, too? … A match program would minimize faculty fatigue and increase efficiencies in hiring, defined as slots being filled by candidates that a faculty deemed desirable, although perhaps not first-preferred.