Legal Commentary

I've just been informed that, for understandable reasons, the inimitable Larry Solum will not be doing a Rookies Report this year; accordingly, in the interest of slaking the thirst for this information, we'll have an open thread where folks can report rookie hires to the tenure track at law schools. In order to ensure the information is accurate, I'm going to ask rising rookies or folks from the schools where they are being hired to sign their names to comments to this post.

You should feel free to include the kind of information that Larry collected in the past. For example, just to pick the folks we hired here at FSU a couple years ago, here's what their info looks like as a template:

Shawn J. Bayern, JD CALIFORNIA ? Berkeley 2006, U.S. Court of Appeals Clerkship, VAP DUKE

Tara Leigh Grove, JD HARVARD 2002, U.S. Court of Appeals Clerkship, Research and Teaching Fellowship HARVARD (Climenko Fellow & Lecturer on Law)

Franita Tolson, JD CHICAGO 2005, U.S. District Court Clerkship & U.S. Court of Appeals Clerkship, VAP NORTHWESTERN

However, if you like, you can also add a brief area of interest and insert a link to the person's ssrn page or webpage with cv to help introduce the world of prawfs to these great new emerging voices.

To start things off, here are Florida State's two very talented rookies:

Jay Kesten, hired by Florida State, JD University of British Columbia, LL.M. Harvard, Wake Forest VAP (specializing in business law), British Columbia Supreme Court.  

Mark Spottswood, hired by Florida State, JD Northwestern, Northwestern VAP (specializing in the institutional design of dispute resolution and civil procedure), ND Ill., 6th Cir.

The information will be aggregated on this spreadsheet (which is reproduced below and which you can download); click on the spreadsheet and scroll across to see all of the information we will be aggregating. The more of this information you provide, the more complete this spreadsheet will be. Also note that you can sort the spreadsheet by any column, including the last column, "Date Added."