Fellowships For Aspiring Law Professors (Updated 2019-20 Edition)

Update:  Fellowships For Aspiring Law Professors (Updated 2024-25 Edition) (Aug. 21, 2024)

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") and the new SEALS Faculty Recruitment Conference with published scholarship (and in many cases teaching experience) under your belt. Here is an updated list of the law schools with fellowship and VAP programs (thanks to AALS President Judith Areen for allowing me to include in this listing positions in the AALS' new directory):

General Programs:

Law School	Program Name
Arizona State	Visiting Assistant Professor Program
Boston University	Visiting Assistant Professor Program
Chicago	Harry A. Bigelow Teaching Fellowships
Chicago	Earl B. Dickerson Fellowship
Columbia	Associates in Law Program
Columbia	Academic Fellows Program
Connecticut	Visiting Scholars Program
Cornell	Visiting Assistant Professorships
Duke	Visiting Assistant Professor Program
Georgetown	Graduate Teaching Fellowships
Georgetown	Georgetown Law Research Fellowship
Georgetown	Visiting Researcher Program
Harvard	Climenko Fellowship
Harvard	Reginald F. Lewis Fellowship for Law Teaching
Illinois	Illinois Academic Fellowship Program
Iowa	Iowa Law Faculty Fellowship
Loyola-New Orleans	Westerfield Fellows Program
Michigan	Michigan Faculty Fellows Program (VAP)
Michigan	Michigan Society of Fellows Program
New England | Boston	Law Teaching Fellow
NYU	Acting Assistant Professors
NYU	Furman Academic Fellowship Program
Northwestern	Visiting Scholars Program
Pennsylvania	The George Sharswood Fellowship
Stetson	Bruce R. Jacob Visiting Assistant Professor Program
Tulane	Forrester Fellowships
Villanova	Visiting Assistant Professor Program
Wake Forest	Visiting Assistant Professor Program
Washington	Visiting Scholars Program
Wisconsin	The Hastie Fellowship Program
Yale	Fellowship Home Page (for Yale grads)

Subject Specific Programs:

Law School	Program Name
Baltimore	Bronfein Family Law Clinic Fellowship
Baltimore	Community Development Clinic Fellowship
Baltimore	Immigrant Rights Clinic Fellowship
Baltimore	Mediation Clinic for Families and Clinic on Legal Data and Design Fellowship
Baltimore	Saul Ewing Civil Advocacy Clinical Fellowship
Baltimore	Veterans Advocacy Clinic Fellowship
Boston University	Visiting Assistant Professor in Health Law
Chicago	Olin Fellowship in Law & Economics
Chicago	Wachtell Fellowship in Behavioral Law, Economics & Finance
Columbia	Fellowship in Climate Change Law
Columbia	James Milligan Law Review Fellowships (for Columbia Law Review alumni)
DePaul	Jaharis Faculty Fellow in Health Law and Intellectual Property
George Washington	Business, Finance, and Entrepreneurship Law Fellowship
George Washington	Frank H. Marks Intellectual Property Fellowship
Georgetown	Center for the Constitution Fellowships and Visiting Lecturers
Georgetown	Clinical Graduate Teaching Fellowships
Georgetown	Global Health Law Fellowships
Georgetown	Graduate Fellowships in State and Local Taxation
Harvard	Animal Law and Policy Program Academic Fellowship
Harvard	Animal Law and Policy Program Visiting Fellowship
Harvard	Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University Fellowship
Harvard	Human Rights Program Visiting Fellows Program
Harvard	Postdoctoral Fellowship in Private Law
Harvard	Program on Corporate Governance Academic Fellow
Harvard	Program on Negotiation Graduate Research Fellowship
Harvard	Qualcomm Postdoctoral Fellowship in Private Law and Intellectual Property
Harvard	Raoul Berger-Mark De Worlfe How Legal History Fellowship
Loyola-Chicago	Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies Research Fellowship
Missouri-Kansas City	UMKC Law Advocacy Teaching Fellowships
NYU	NYU Furman Center Post-Graduate Legal Research Fellowships
NYU	Samuel I. Goleib Fellowship in Legal History
NYU	Wagner Fellowship in Law & Business
Pennsylvania	Center for Ethics and Rule of Law Fellowship
Pennsylvania	Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition (CTIC) Postdoctoral Fellowship
Pennsylvania	Quattrone Center Research Fellowship 2019-2020
Princeton	The Arthur J. Liman Public Interest Law Fellowship
Stanford	Center for Law and History
Stanford	Constitutional Law Center Fellowships
Stanford	The Rock Center for Corporate Governance Fellowship
Stanford	The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics CodeX Fellowships
Stanford	The Transatlantic Technology Law Forum (TTLF) Fellowships
Stetson	Program in Law and Public Affairs (LAPA) Fellows Program
Tennessee	Clayton Center for Entrepreneurial Law Visting Professor Program
Tulane	Murphy Institute Visiting Assistant Professorship
Tulane	Yongxiong International Credit Law Fellowship
UCLA	Critical Race Studies Fellowship Program
UCLA	Emmett/Frankel Fellowship in Environmental Law and Policy 2019-2021
UCLA	Law and Philosophy Program Post Doctoral Fellowship
Villanova	Visiting Assistant Professor of Law and Fellow in Law, Business and Economics
Villanova	Villanova University Anti-Poverty Fellow
Wayne State	Oversight Fellowship Program
Yale	Information Society Project (Law and Technology) Resident Fellowship
Yale	Robina Foundation Post-Graduate Fellowships in International Human Rights