Want to be a Law Professor??
The following information is reproduced from the TaxProf Blog:
For practitioners and others contemplating joining the law professor ranks, many law schools offer wonderful opportunities to transition into the legal academy with one- or two-year fellowships which allow you to enter the AALS Faculty Recruitment Conference (the “meat market”) armed with teaching experience and published scholarship under your belt:
- Alabama: Hugo Black Fellowship Program (for Supreme Court clerks)
- Chicago:
- Chicago-Kent: Visiting Assistant Professor Program
- Columbia:
- Associates in Law Program
- James Milligan Law Review Fellowships (for Columbia Law Review alumni)
- Florida: Visiting Assistant Professor Program (Tax)
- Georgetown: Graduate Fellowship Program for Future Law Professors
- Harvard:
- Iowa: Faculty Fellows Program
- John M. Olin Fellows in Law
- New York University:
- Acting Assistant Professor Program (Tax)
- Furman Academic Fellowship Program (for NYU grads)
- Northwestern: Visiting Assistant Professor Program
- John M. Olin Fellows in Law
- Searle Fellows in Public Law
- VAP in Finance
- VAP in Health Care Law and Economics
- VAP in Negotiations
- VAP in Securities and Finance
- VAP in Taxation
- Stanford: Teaching Fellowship Program
- Temple: Abraham L. Freedman Graduate Teaching Fellowship Program
- Texas: Emerging Scholars Program
- Wisconsin: William H. Hastie Fellowship Program
- Yale: Robert M. Cover Fellowship Program
A great discussion of many of these fellowship programs can be found in Patricia A. Cain (Iowa) & Faith Pincus (Iowa), Faculty Fellowship Programs That Lead to Law Teaching.
For more information on becoming a law professor, including a discussion of the advantages of these fellowship programs, see:
- Jack Chin (Arizona), TeachLaw: Resources for Lawyers Who Want to be Law Professors
- Jack Chin (Arizona) & Denise Morgan (New York Law School), Breaking Into the Academy: The 2002-2004 Michigan Journal of Race & Law Guide for Aspiring Law Professors, 7 Mich. J. Race & L. 457 (2002)
- Eric Goldman (Marquette), Careers in Law Teaching
- Institute for Humane Studies, George Mason University, Law School and Beyond: The IHS Guide to Careers in Legal Academia
- Law Crossing, Becoming a Law Professor: Part 1 and Part 2
- Brian Leiter (Texas), Information and Advice for Persons Interested in Teaching Law
- Brad Wendel (Cornell), The Big Rock Candy Mountain: How to Get a Job in Law Teaching
- Don Zillman (Maine), Marina Angel (Temple), Jan Laitos (Denver), George Pring (Denver) & Joseph Tomain (Cincinnati), Uncloaking Law School Hiring: A Recruit’s Guide to the AALS Faculty Recruitment Conference, 39 J. Legal Educ. 345 (1988)
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