Fellowships for Aspiring Law Professors (Updated)

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") with published scholarship (and in many cases teaching experience) under your belt:

• Alabama: Hugo Black Fellowship Program (for Supreme Court clerks)
• Arizona State:  Visiting Assistant Professor Program
• Brooklyn:  Visiting Assistant Professor Program
• California Western:  Legal Scholars Teaching Fellowship Program
• Chicago:
  • Harry A. Bigelow Teaching Fellowships
  • Fellowship in Law and Philosophy
  • John M. Olin Fellows in Law
• Chicago-Kent: Visiting Assistant Professor Program
• Columbia:
  • Academic Fellows Program
  • Associates in Law Program (J.S.D., LL.M., and Non-degree)
  • James Milligan Law Review Fellowships (for Columbia Law Review alumni)
  • Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts Fellowships
• Connecticut:  Visiting Assistant Professor Program (contact Jeremy Paul)
• Cornell:  Visiting Assistant Professor Program
• Duke:  Visiting Assistant Professor Program
• Federalist Society:  Olin/Searle/Smith Fellows in Law Program
• Florida:  Visiting Assistant Professor Program (Tax)
• Fordham:  Visiting Assistant Professor Program
• George Mason:  Visiting Assistant Professor Program (not offered for 2008-09)
• George Washington:  Frank H. Marks Visiting Associate Professor of Law and Administrative Fellow in the Intellectual Property Law Program
• Georgetown:
  • Clinical Graduate Teaching Fellowships
  • Graduate Fellowship Program for Future Law Professors
• Harvard:
  • Byse Fellowships
  • Climenko Fellowship
  • Kauffman Legal Fellowship (for Harvard Law alumni)
  • Reginald F. Lewis Fellowship for Law Teaching
  • Petrie-Flom Fellowships in Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics
  • Post-Graduate Fellowship in International Law (for Harvard Law alumni)
  • Post-Graduate Fellowship in Public Law (for Harvard Law alumni)
  • Post-Graduate Research Fellowship Program (for Harvard Law alumni)
  • Program on Negotiation Research Fellowships
  • Raoul Berger Visiting Fellowship in Legal History
  • Visiting Assistant Professor Program
• Illinois:  Academic Fellowship Program
• Loyola-Chicago:  Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies Research Fellowship
• Loyola-L.A.:  Visiting Assistant Professor (Tax)
• Loyola-New Orleans:  Westerfield Fellows Program
• New York University:
  • Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering Program
  • Acting Assistant Professor Program (Tax)
  • Furman Academic Fellowship Program (for NYU grads)
  • Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy Research Fellowship (contact Vicki Been)
  • Golieb Fellowships in Legal History
  • Wagner Fellowship in Law & Business
• Northwestern:  Visiting Assistant Professor Program
  • VAP in Negotiations
  • VAP in Securities and Finance
  • VAP in Taxation
• Pennsylvania:
  • Law Faculty Fellowship Program
  • Sharswood Fellowship (for Penn Law alumni)
• Princeton:  Law and Public Affairs Fellowship
• Stanford:
  • Center for Ethics in Society
  • Center for Internet & Society Teaching Fellowship Program
  • Center for Internet & Society and Constitutional Law Center Joint Fellowship
  • Center for Law and the Biosciences
  • Center on the Legal Profession
  • Clinical Teaching Fellowship Program
  • CodeX: Center for Computers and Law
  • Constitutional Law Center
  • Criminal Justice Center
  • Environmental and Natural Resources Policy Program
  • Legal Resarch & Writing Teaching Fellowship Program
  • Rock Center for Corporate Governance
• Temple:  Abraham L. Freedman Graduate Teaching Fellowship Program
• Texas:  Emerging Scholars Program
• Tulane:  Forrester Fellowship Program
• UC-Berkeley:  Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, Microsoft Research Fellowship
• UCLA:
  • Binder Clinical Teaching Fellowship
  • Critical Race Studies Law Teaching Fellowship
  • Evan Frankel Environmental Law and Policy Fellowship
  • Law and Philosophy Program Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • Williams Institute Law Teaching Fellowships -- Sexual Orientation Law
• Wake Forest:  Visiting Assistant Professor Program
• Washington University:  Visiting Faculty Fellows Program
• University of Windsor:  Visiting Assistant Professor Program
• Wisconsin:
  • William H. Hastie Fellowship Program
  • Law & Society Post-doctoral Fellowship
• Windsor:  Visiting Assistant Professor Program
• Yale:  Fellowship Home Page
  • Richard A. Bartlett Fellowship at the American University in Cairo
  • Robert M. Cover Fellowship Program
  • Information Society Project (law and technology)
  • Irving S. Ribicoff Fellowship Program
  • Oscar M. Ruebhausen Fellowship Program
  • Oscar M. Ruebhausen South Asia Fellowship Program

For more information on becoming a law professor, including a discussion of the advantages of these fellowship programs, see:

• 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)
• Glenn Cohen (Harvard):
  • Why Not/Do a Fellowship
  • So You Are a Fellow, What Exactly Does That Mean?
  • Job Market Timetable
  • Recommenders and the Entry-Level Job Market
  • The Meat Market Is Like ... The Meat Market
  • Asking Questions on the Job Market - Part 1: Before the Offer
  • Asking Questions on the Job Market - Part II: About the Offer
• James D. Gordon III (BYU), An Insider's Guide to the Faculty Recruitment Conference, 43 J. Legal Educ. 301 (1999)
• Eric Goldman (Santa Clara), Careers in Law Teaching
• Law Crossing, Becoming a Law Professor: Part 1 and Part 2
• Brian Leiter (Texas), Information and Advice for Persons Interested in Teaching Law
• Rick Swedloff (Temple VAP), The Fellowship of the (Hi)Ring
• Brad Wendel (Cornell), The Big Rock Candy Mountain: How to Get a Job in Law Teaching
• David Zaring (Washington & Lee), Whether a Fellow or a Visitor Be
• 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)