Joshua D. Blank (Rutgers-Newark) has been named Associate Professor of the Practice of Tax Law and Faculty Director of the Graduate Tax Program at New York University School of Law, effective January 1, 2010.  From the NYU announcement:

Blank is currently an Assistant Professor of Law at Rutgers School of Law-Newark. From 2006 to 2008, he served as an Acting Assistant Professor of Tax Law at NYU School of Law, where he taught several advanced tax courses. From 2002 to 2006, Blank was an associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where he advised clients regarding tax aspects of complex public and private company mergers, spin-offs, and hostile takeovers.