Legal Theory Blog: Entry Level Hiring Survey 2010

Preliminary results are reported below.

Once again, it is time for the Entry Level Hiring Survey. Data will be collected by Surveymonkey. To submit a candidate, simply click on this link:

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If you wish to submit more than one candidate, you will need to take the survey multiple times. Submit candidates who were hired for entry-level tenure-track positions at law schools in the United States.

The Preliminary Results from the JD Tournament are as follows:

Yale 18

Harvard 17

NYU 8

Columbia 5

Virginia 5

Berkeley 4

Penn 4

Chicago 3

Michigan 3

Stanford 3

Preliminary Reports by School After the Break

Albany Law School (of Union University)

Robert Heverly; JD 1992 Albany Law School; LLM Date? Yale University; Visiting Professor, Michigan State University College of Law, formerly faculty at University of East Anglia; Intellectual Property, Information Technology American University Washington College of Law

Lindsay F. Wiley; JD 2003 Harvard University; MPH 2009 Johns Hopkins University; ; Health Law Ave Maria School of Law

Ryan Patrick Alford; JD 2005 New York University; MA University of Amsterdam 2000, MSt University of Oxford 2010; United States District Court, United States Court of Appeals; Barry University School of Law

Katherine Puzone; JD 1998 New York University; M Phil Cambridge University Economics and Politics of Development; Lecturer in Law Columbia University; Baylor University School of Law

Jill Wieber Lens; JD 2005 University of Iowa; Visiting Assistant Professor University of Louisville School of Law; Torts Boston University Law School

David H. Webber; JD 2002 New York University; Leonard Wagner Fellow in Law & Business New York University Law School; United States District Court; Securities Regulation, Corporate Law Brigham Young University

Mehrsa Baradaran; JD 2005 New York University; Fellowship New York University; Banking Regulation, Commercial Law Brooklyn Law School

Gregg P. Macey; JD 2006 University of Virginia; PhD 2007 MIT Urban Planning; Visiting Assistant Professor Fordham University; Environmental Law, Property Law Cleveland-Marshall College of Law at Cleveland State University

John T. Plecnik; JD 2006 Duke University; LLM 2009 New York University Taxation; United States Tax Court; Tax Law Columbia University

Abbe Gluck; JD 2000 Yale University; Academic Fellow Columbia University; United States Supreme Court; Legislation Faulkner University

Layne Keele; JD 2005 Indiana University; ; United States Court of Appeals; Florida International University

Noah Weisbord; LLB 2003 McGill University; LLM 2004 Harvard University, SJD 2010 Harvard University; Visiting Assistant Professor Duke University; International Criminal Law, Criminal Law Florida State University

David Landau; JD 2004 Harvard University; PhD Harvard Political Science (expected 2010); Climenko Fellow Harvard University; United States Court of Appeals; Comparative Law, Constitutional Law

Reid Fontaine; JD 1996 University of Pennsylvania; PhD Duke 2001 Psychology; ; Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Fordham University

Joseph Landau; JD 2002 Yale University; Associate-in-Law Columbia University; United States Court of Appeals, United States District Court; Civil Procedure, Administrative Law, National Security Law

Olivier Sylvain; JD 1999 Georgetown University; PhD 2010 Columbia Communications; Visiting Assistant Professor Fordham University; Communications Law, Internet Law Golden Gate University

Wes Porter; JD 1998 Catholic University; ; Evidence Law, Advocacy Harvard University

Mark Wu; JD 2007 Yale University; MSc 1998 Oxford Development Economics; Academic Fellow Columbia University; United States Court of Appeals; International Economic Law Lewis & Clark

Samir Parikh; JD 2001 University of Michigan; ; United States Bankruptcy Court; Bankruptcy, Commercial Law Loyola Law School Los Angeles

Carlos Berdejo; JD 2001 Yale University; PhD 2010 Harvard University Economics

Justin Levitt; JD 2002 Harvard University; MPA Harvard University 2002; United States Court of Appeals

Simona Grossi; ? 2002 LUISS University School of Law (Rome, Italy); LLM 2009 University of California Berkeley Marquette University

No entry-level hiring this year Michigan State University

Jennifer Carter-Johnson; JD 2006 University of Michigan; PhD 2003 University of Virginia Microbiology; Visiting Faculty Fellow Washington University St. Louis; Patent Law, Biotechnology Law New England Law

Jordan M. Singer; JD 2000 Harvard University; ; Colorado Supreme Court; Civil Procedure, Judicial Process New England Law

Tigran Eldred; JD 1990 Fordham University; Lawyering Program New York University; United States Court of Appeals; Criminal Law, Professional Responsibility New York Law School

Melynda Barnhart; JD 2001 Northeastern University; LLM 2009 New York University, LLM 2010 Temple University; Abraham Freedman Fellow Temple University; Legal Research and Writing, Immigration Notre Dame University

Colleen Baker; JD 2004 University of Virginia; MS 1998 Logic & Computation Carnegie Mellon, MBA 2004 Virginia, PhD 2010 (expected) Ethics & Legal Studies University of Pennsylvania; Reuschlein Teaching Fellow Villanova University; Commercial Law, Financial Regulation

Jeffrey Pojanowski; JD 2004 Harvard University; Olin-Smith Fellow University of Virginia; United States Court of Appeals, Supreme Court of the United States; Administrative Law, Jurisprudence Penn State University

Adam I. Muchmore; JD 2003 Yale University; Bigelow Fellow University of Chicago; United States Court of Appeals, United States District Court; Food and Drug Law, International Business Transactions Pepperdine University

Greg McNeal; JD ? Case Western Reserve University; PhD Public Policy and Administration (candidate), Pennsylvania State University; Visiting Assistant Professor of Law Pennsylvania State University; National Security Law, Criminal Law

Michael A. Helfand; JD 2007 Yale University; PhD 2009 Yale Political Science; United States Court of Appeals; Roger Williams University

Michael H Burger; JD 2003 Columbia University; MFA 2009 New York University Creative Writing; Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering New York University; Environmental Law Rutgers University, Newark

Christina S. Ho; JD 1999 Harvard University; MPP 1999 Harvard Kennedy School of Government; Fellowship O'Neill Institute Georgetown University; Health Law

Reid Kress Weisbord; JD 2006 University of Pennsylvania; ; United States District Court, United States Court of Appeals; Saint Louis University

Kirsten Nussbaumer; JD 2000 Stanford University; MA, PhD 2010 Stanford Political Science; Visiting Assistant Professor University of Minnesota; United States District Court; Constitutional History, Election Law Seton Hall University

Brian Sheppard; JD 2001 Boston College; SJD Harvard 2011 (expected), LLM Harvard 2005; Climenko Fellow Harvard University; United States Court of Appeals, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts; Philosophy of Law, Professional Responsibility

Jenny Carroll; JD 1997 University of Texas; LLM, 2005, Georgetown, Clinical Advocacy; VAP University of Cincinnati; United States District Court; Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure South Texas College of Law

Derek Fincham; JD 2005, Wake Forest University; PhD 2008 University of Aberdeen, Law; Westerfield Fellow Loyola University New Orleans; Cultural Heritage Law Southwestern Law School

Roman J. Hoyos; JD ? Northwestern University School of Law; PhD 2010 (exp) University of Chicago History; Visiting Assistant Professor Duke University School of Law, Visiting Assistant Professor Department of History Duke University; Property Law, American Legal History St. Mary's Univeristy

Jamie Lund; JD 2006 University of Chicago; ; Intellectual Property, Business Associations Syracuse University College of Law

Tara Helfman; JD 2006 Yale University; MA 2001 University College London (Legal and Political Theory), MPhil 2000 Cambridge (Political Thought and Intellectual History); Olin Fellow and Searle Fellow New York University; International Law, Legal History Texas Tech University School of Law

Genevieve Beyea; JD 2008 New York University; ; Securities Regulation Thomas Jefferson School of Law

Brenda M. Simon; JD 2000 University of California Berkeley; Teaching Fellow Stanford Research Fellow Stanford; United States District Court; Patents, Intellectual Property Tulane University

Amy Stein; JD 2000 University of Chicago; Visiting Associate Professor of Legal Research and Writing George Washington University; Environmental Law University of Akron

Ryan Vacca; JD 2004 University of Missouri; LL.M. 2008 New York University Trade Regulation/Intellectual Property; VAP University of Oregon, VAP University of Denver; Intellectual Property University of Arizona

Chris Robertson; JD 2007 ?; PhD Washington University St. Louis Philosophy; Petrie Flom Fellowship Harvard University; Health Law, Expert Witnesses University of Arkansas Fayetteville

Laurent Sacharoff; JD 1997 Columbia University; Graduate Fellow Temple University; United States District Court; Criminal Law University of Baltimore

Colin Starger; JD 2002 Columbia University; Acting Assistant Professor New York University; United States District Court; Civil Rights Law

David Jaros; JD 2001 Yale University; MPP 1996 Harvard's Kennedy School of Government; Lawyering Program New York University; United States District Court; Criminal Law University of California Berkeley

Bertrall Ross; JD 2006 Yale University; M.Sc. London School of Economics, MPA Princeton University Woodrow Wilson School; Kellis Parker Academic Fellow Columbia University; United States Court of Appeals, United States District Court; Legislation, Election Law

Katerina Linos; JD 2006 Harvard University; PhD 2007 Harvard Political Science; Junior Fellow Society of Fellows Harvard University; International Law

Matthew Jacobsmeyer; JD 1991 Harvard University

Saira Mohamed; JD 2005 Columbia University; Master of International Affairs 2005 Columbia School of International and Public Affairs; James Milligan Fellow Columbia University; United States Court of Appeals; International Law, Human Rights Law

Stavros Gadinis; LLB Aristotle University (Greece) 1997; LLM Cantab 2000, LLM Harvard 2004, SJD Harvard 2010 (expected); Post-Graduate Fellow Harvard University; Corporate Law, Securities Regulation University of California Los Angeles

Allison Hoffman; JD 2004 ?; Petrie Flom Fellow Harvard University; Health Law University of California, Hastings College of the Law

Susan Morse; JD 1996 Harvard University; Teaching Fellow and Research Assistant Professor Santa Clara University; United States Court of Appeal; Tax Law University of Central Kentucky

Peter Pary; JD 2001 University of California Los Angeles; ; Tax Law University of Denver

Ian Farrell; LLB 1995 University of Wollongong; LLM 1999 Harvard Law; Visiting Assistant Professor University of Texas; Massachusetts Court of Appeals; Criminal Law, Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence

Robin Walker Sterling; JD 1999 New York University; LLM 2009 Georgetown University Law Center; Prettyman Fellow Georgetown University; United States District Court; Criminal Defense, Juvenile Justice University of Florida

Rachel Rebouche; JD 2006 Harvard University; LLM 2001 Queen's University Belfast; Constitutional Court of South Africa; Family Law

Tom Lin; JD 2005 University of Pennyslvania; Legal Writing Fellow Brooklyn College of Law; Corporate Law, Securities Regulation University of Georgia

Logan Sawyer; JD 2000 University of Virginia; PhD anticipated 2010 University of Virginia History; Future Law Professor Fellowship Georgetown University; United States Court of Appeals, North Carolina Supreme Court; Legal History

Timothy Meyer; JD 2006 University of California Berkeley; PhD 2008 UC Berkeley Jurisprudence and Social Policy; United States Court of Appeals; International Law University of Houston

Jessica L. Roberts; JD 2006 Yale University; Associate-in-Law Columbia University; United States Court of Appeals, Texas Supreme Court; Health Law, Bioethics, Disability Law

Jessica Mantel; JD 1997 University of Michigan; MPP 1997 University of Michigan; United States Court of Appeals; Health Law, Administrative Law

Zachary Bray; JD 2005 Yale University; ; United States Court of Appeals, United States District Court; Property, Land Use University of Iowa

Joseph Yockey; JD 2004 University of Illinois; University of Illinois Academic Fellowship Program; United States District Court; Corporate Law University of Kansas

Virginia Harper Ho; JD 2001 Harvard University; MA Indiana University-Bloomington; VAP Indiana University-Bloomington; United States District Court; Corporate Law, Chinese Law University of Kentucky

Jennifer E. Bird-Pollan; JD 2007 Harvard University; ; Tax Law

Joshua Douglas; JD 2007 George Washington University; ; United States Court of Appeals; Civil Procedure, Election Law University of Louisville

Tracey Roberts; JD 1994 Vanderbilt University Law School; LLM 2009 New York University School of Law; ; Tax Law, Real Estate Law University of Maine

Malick Ghachem; JD 2002 Harvard University; PhD Stanford 2002; United States Court of Appeals; Legal History, Criminal Law University of Nevada Las Vegas

Elizabeth L. MacDowell; JD 1999 University of California Berkeley; Visiting Assistant Clinical Professor Chapman University; Family Law, Feminist Legal Theory

Fatma E. Marouf; JD 2002 Harvard University; ; United States District Court; Immigration, International Human Rights, International Finance

Lori Johnson; JD 2005 Northwestern University School of Law; ; Legal Writing, Business Transactions

Marketa Trimble; Magister of Law 1997 Charles University (Prague); Doctor of Laws (JUDr.), Ph.D. in Law, 2001, Law School of Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, Master of the Science of the Law (J.S.M.), 2006, Stanford Law School, S.J.D. candidate, expected June 2010, Stanford Law School; Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Legal Research Fellow Stanford Law School; Intellectual Property, International Law, European Union Law University of North Carolina

John Coyle; JD 2005 Yale University; M.Phil Cambridge University; Climenko Fellow Harvard University; United States Court of Appeals; University of Oregon

Michael Fakhri; LL.B. 2001 Queen's University; LLM 2006 Harvard; SJD 2010 Univeristy of Toronto; ; International Economic Law

Mohsen Manesh; JD 2006 Georgetown University; ; Corporations, Unincorporated Business Associations University of Tennessee

Wendy A. Bach; JD 1996 New York University; MA 1991 University of Pennsylvania English Literature; ; Clinical Law, Poverty Law University of Texas

Cary Franklin; JD 2005 Yale University; D Phil 2003 Oxford English; Postdoctoral Associate in Law and Irving S. Ribicoff Fellow in Law Yale University, Junior Fellow Society of Fellows Harvard University; United States Court of Appeals; Employment Discrimination, Feminist Legal Theory, Constitutional Law

Joseph Fishkin; JD 200? Yale University; D Phil 2003 Oxford Politics; Oscar M. Ruebhausen Fellow Yale University; Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts; Employment Law, Election Law University of the District of Columbia

Andrew Ferguson; JD 2000 University of Pennsylvania; LLM 2004 Georgetown University Law Center; ; Criminal Law

Kristina M. Campbell; JD 2002 Notre Dame University; Visiting Assistant Professor University of Denver; Immigration, Clinical Teaching University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law

No Entry Level Hiring University of Toledo

Garrick Purlsey; JD 2004 University of Texas; Visiting Assistant Professor University of Texas; United States Court of Appeals, United States District Court; Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law

Kara Bruce; JD 2007 Tulane University; ; Bankruptcy, Commercial University of Tulsa

Sam Foster Halabi; JD 2005 Harvard University; MPhil, 2001 Oxford International Relations; O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law Georgetown University; United States District Court; Corprorate Law, Transnational Regulation, Health Law

Hannah Jacobs Wiseman; JD 2007 Yale University; Visiting Assistant Professor at University of Texas (Emerging Scholars Program); United States Court of Appeals; Environmental Law, Energy Law

Samuel Wiseman; JD 2007 Yale University; ; United States Court of Appeal, Texas Supreme Court; Criminal Law, Constitutional Law University of Utah

Amelia Smith Rinehart; JD 2002 University of Chicago; Visiting Assistant Professor Florida State University; Intellectual Property University of Virginia

John Morley; JD 2006 Yale University; Associate Research Scholar in Law and John R. Raben/Sullivan & Cromwell Executive Director Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law; Corporate Law University of Wisconsin

Susannah Camic; JD 2007 Yale University; MA 2006 Yale Political Science; ; Tax Law University of Wyoming

Stew Young; JD 2004 Stanford University; MA Waseda University (Tokyo); United States Court of Appeals, United States District Court; Criminal Law Wake Forest University

Tanya Marsh; JD 2000 Harvard University; ; Indiana Supreme Court; Property Washington University St. Louis

Adam B. Badawi; JD 2003 University of California Berkeley; PhD 2004 University of California Berkeley Jurisprudence and Social Policy; Olin Fellow in Law and Economics Univeristy of California Berkeley, Bigelow Fellow University of Chicago; United States Court of Appeals; Contract Law, Commercial Law Wayne State University

Eric A. Zacks; JD 2002 Harvard University; ; Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate Law Western State University

David Groshoff; JD 1996 Ohio State University; EdM 2009 Harvard (Law and Economics), MBA 2007 Northern Kentucky University (Finance); ; Corporate Law, Commercial Law

Jennifer Koh; JD 2001 Columbia University; Clinical Fellow Stanford University; United States District Court; Immigration Law Whittier College

Julie A.D. Manasfi; JD 2003 New York University; LLM 2004 NYU School of Law Taxation; Visiting Assitant Professor Loyola Law School Los Angeles; Tax Law, Business Associations William and Mary

Allison Orr Larsen; JD 2004 University of Virginia; VAP & Scholar in Residence Catholic University, Research Fellow University of Virginia; United States Supreme Court, United States Court of Appeals; Constitutional Law, Administrative Law

Nancy Leong; JD 2006 Stanford Law School; Visiting Researcher Georgetown University; United States Court of Appeals; Civil Rights, Race Discrimination Reports from Other Schools

Cambridge University Law Department

Jodie Kirshner; JD 2006 Columbia University; MS 2002 Columbia Journalism; Fellow, Centre for Business Research, Cambridge University; Fellow, Centre for Corporate Governance, London Business School; United States Court of Appeals; Comparative Corporate Governance Phoenix School of Law

Francine Banner; JD 2000 New York University; PhD 2009 Arizona State University Justice Studies; ; Human Rights, Women and the Law