Law Professors, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Musical Chairs

Musical Chairs: What, the Pizza's Not Good Enough to Make Them Stay?

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We realize this gossip is several days old. But we don’t check Brian Leiter’s site as often as we should — ’cause we’re always afraid of going there and finding something mildly critical to downright nasty about us. We’re quite good at loathing ourselves; we don’t need others to pitch in.
But better late than never. Here’s the juicy rumor:

Yale Law School may experience a wave of departures. James Whitman’s going to New York (NYU or Columbia), Alec Stone Sweet is flirting with Columbia and Stanford, Kenji Yoshino will follow Whitman to one or the other, Reva Siegel and Robert Post are visiting at Harvard and one of them really wants to go.

Interesting stuff. Can anyone confirm or provide further detail? If so, please drop us a line.
We are loyal alumni of Yale Law School (and just sent our modest annual contribution their way). But we are kinda curious about how Dean Harold Koh would spin such a loss of talent.
Every time we hear Dean Koh speak, he goes on — at great length — about YLS’s latest hiring coups (which we’re not faulting him for; it’s his job). So it would be interesting to attend an alumni event with Dean Koh and ask, during the Q-and-A session: “Hey Harold, what’s up with all these high-profile departures? Why is Yale losing great legal minds in droves? Is New Haven really so awful these days?”
Disclosure: We had Professor Leiter for Evidence in law school, when he was visiting Yale from Texas. He was very pleasant and mild-mannered. Based on his classroom demeanor, you’d have no idea he was so skilled at ripping people new ones on the internet (e.g., Jonathan Adler (aka Juan Non-Volokh), Ann Althouse, etc.). It’s interesting how the “web personalities” of so many bloggers differ from their “in-person personalities.”
Further Observation: We think it would violate some sort of educational privacy law for Professor Leiter to blog about how we actually sucked in his Evidence class, that we didn’t deserve the “H” he gave us, etc.
“Wave of departures” from Yale Law School Imminent? [Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports]
Brian R. Leiter bio [University of Texas at Austin]

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