Sociologist Follows His Heart to Princeton; Ohio State's Law School Grows by 6

"The law school is at an unusual crossroads where a couple of things came together" and allowed the school to "hire really good people," says Mr. Oesterle, who hails from the Midwest and says family considerations played a role in his decision to leave the University of Colorado at Boulder. The other new hires for this fall are Ellen E. Deason, an expert in dispute resolution from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign; Larry T. Garvin, a commercial-law expert from Florida State University; Peter M. Shane, an expert on administrative law from Carnegie Mellon University; Ric Simmons, a criminal-litigation and evidence professor from New York University; and Dan Tokaji, an expert in civil litigation and constitutional and civil-rights law from the American Civil Liberties Union of California. *** COMINGS AND GOINGS: Michael T. Nettles will leave the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he is a professor of education, to become executive director of the Educational Testing Service's Policy Studies and Research Center.