Professor Michael McConnell is named on Brian Leiter's list of significant lateral moves in the legal academy in 2009:

You can review the several dozen moves recorded under the "Faculty News" category last year, but here are ten highlights from the year, moves that are likely to have siginficant effects for the hiring schools going forward; in some cases where a school made a big investment in a field, I bundle the moves:

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5. Michael McConnell (constitutional law) from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit to Stanford University.