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On Twitter, peers at other law schools made note of the hiring wave as they congratulated their colleagues making moves. The tweets drew analogies to winning sports teams, antitrust law, popular films and other cultural touchstones.

Melissa Murray of New York University School of Law, who recently  at UVA Law, and Danielle Holley-Walker, dean of the Howard University School of Law, speculated that UVA might be assembling heroes against some kind of cosmic threat.

President Jim Ryan RN:

— Melissa Murray (@ProfMMurray)

Stephen Mouritsen, a commercial litigator and adjunct law professor at Brigham Young University, teased, “According to my model, within 30 years, everyone will teach at UVa.”

Still others went old-school with their analogies.

We have live video of 's hiring committee in action this year.

— lawprofblawg (@lawprofblawg)

A hyperbolic tweet by David Noll of Rutgers Law School got the attention of reporter Karen Sloan, who writes for National Law Journal and Law.com.

Soon, there will be a single U.S. law school----and people will talk about other schools the way we talk about "independent" bookstores.

— David L. Noll (@davidlnoll)

In her article “,” Sloan commented, “I too had noticed that the University of Virginia School of Law has been on an absolute tear this cycle with lateral faculty hiring. It seemed like every other day the Charlottesville law school was announcing another high-profile faculty hire.”

So she asked Dean Risa Goluboff to reveal her recruiting secrets. The dean explained that the Law School takes an active interest in prospects years in advance of their hires, reading everything they write and steadily building relationships.

Goluboff and outgoing vice dean and UVA Law alumna Leslie Kendrick worked with successive hiring committee chairs Deborah Hellman, Michael Livermore, Frederick Schauer, Quinn Curtis and Michael Gilbert, as well as three years of hiring committees and the whole faculty, to identify, evaluate and recruit the talented new professors.

“Our appointments committee and our faculty have worked tirelessly over the past several years to bring supremely talented and diverse scholars and teachers to our already stellar faculty,” Goluboff said. “Our new and incoming faculty are either already academic superstars or superstars in the making – highly influential voices in their fields whose scholarship will have an impact at UVA Law, both inside and outside of the classroom, and well beyond it.”

Goluboff herself has been the subject of some of the Twitter banter.

“HOW IS @RisaGoluboff doing it?” Paul Gowder of the Northwestern School of Law asked. “Did she sell her soul at a crossroads, Robert Johnson-style, for the unholy power to recruit amazing faculty?”

The dean did not comment on the possibility.

As the Law School announced one of its final hires for the cycle, Lee Kovarsky of the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, a 2004 UVA Law grad, tweeted in summation, “UVA FTW for like the 100th time this season.”

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The new faculty members have diverse scholarly interests and, where noted, :

• , modern federal courts, 
• , courts, dignity in the legal process, 
• , international law and corporate social responsibility
• , family law, trusts and estates, feminist jurisprudence, 
• Danielle Citron, digital privacy, civil liberties and civil rights, 
• , cybersecurity, foreign relations, separation of powers, national security, 
• , criminal law, constitutional criminal procedure, 
• , sovereign debt, contract law
• , corporate contracts and deals, business law, 
• , health care law, law and sexuality, 
• , market regulation, nontraditional/taboo markets, 
• , courts, constitutions, comparative law, 
• , race-based economic inequality, civil rights, civil procedure, 
• , criminal procedure, federal courts, constitutional law, 
• , law and democracy, election integrity and fairness, 
• , constitutional theory, procedure, the philosophy of law, 
• , law and economics, criminal law and policy,