Fellowships For Aspiring Law Professors (Updated 2024-25 Edition)

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 most cases teaching experience) under your belt. Below is an updated list of the law schools with fellowship and VAP programs. Please contact me with any corrections or additions.

General Programs:

	Program Name
Boston College	Drinan Scholars Program
BYU	Visiting Fellowship Program
Cardozo	Harold A. Stevens Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
Chicago	Earl B. Dickerson Fellowship
Chicago	Harry A. Bigelow Teaching Fellowships
Chicago-Kent	Visiting Assistant Professor Program
Columbia	Academic Fellows Program
Connecticut	Stuart F. Smith Teaching Fellowship
Connecticut	Visiting Scholars Program
Cornell	Visiting Assistant Professorships
Duke	Visiting Assistant Professor Program
Federalist Society	Faculty Division Olin-Searle-Smith-Darling Research Fellowship in Law (Full-Time)
Federalist Society	Faculty Division Clinical Fellowship in Law (Full-Times)
Federalist Society	Faculty Division Research Fellowship (Part-Time)
Georgetown	Georgetown Law Research Fellowship
Harvard	Climenko Fellowship
Harvard	Rappaport Fellowship
Illinois	Illinois Academic Fellowship Program
Indiana-McKinney	Future Faculty Visiting Assistant Fellowship
Iowa	Iowa Law Faculty Fellowship
Loyola-New Orleans	Westerfield Fellows Program
Maryland	Murray Fellows
Michigan	Michigan Faculty Fellows Program (VAP)
Michigan	Michigan Society of Fellows Program
Mississippi	Visiting Assistant Professor
Northwestern	Marti Family Fellowship Visiting Assistant Professor
NYU	Furman Academic Fellowship Program
NYU	Acting Assistant Professor
Pennsylvania	The George Sharswood Fellowship
Pepperdine	Ken Starr Faculty Fellowship
South Texas	Visiting Assistant Professor
Stetson	Bruce R. Jacob Visiting Assistant Professor
Texas	Texas Law Academic Fellowships
Tulane	Forrester Fellowships
UC-Hastings	Visiting Foreign Scholars Program
Washington	Visiting Scholars Program
Wisconsin	The Hastie Fellowship Program

Subject Specific Programs:

	Program Name
ABA	Administrative Law Fellowship
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	Wachtell Fellowship in Behavioral Law, Economics & Finance
Chicago-Kent	Visiting Assistant Professor in Legal Writing
Columbia	Fellowship in Climate Change Law
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
George Washington	Visiting Associate Professor of Law and Privacy and Technology Law Fellow
Georgetown	Center for the Constitution Research Fellowship
Georgetown	Clinical Graduate Teaching Fellowships
Georgetown	Global Health Law Fellowships
Georgetown	REEL Policy Fellowship
Harvard	Academic Fellowship in Law and Political Economy
Harvard	Animal Law and Policy Program Visiting Fellowship
Harvard	Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University Fellowship
Harvard	Henigson Human Rights Fellowship
Harvard	Petrie-Flom Academic Fellowship
Harvard	Postdoctoral Fellowship in Private Law
Harvard	Program on Corporate Governance Academic Fellow
Harvard	Program on Negotiation Graduate Research Fellowship
Harvard	Raoul Berger-Mark De Wolfe Howe Legal History Fellowship
Illinois	Postdoctoral Fellowship in Genomic Security and Privacy (GSP)
NYU	Lawrence Lederman Fellowships in Law and Economics
NYU	NYU Furman Center Post-Graduate Legal Research Fellowships
NYU	Samuel I. Goleib Fellowship in Legal History
NYU	Visiting Assistant Professor of Tax Law
NYU	Wagner Fellowship in Law & Business
Ohio State	JusticeTech Fellow
Pennsylvania	Center for Ethics and Rule of Law Fellowship
Pennsylvania	Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition (CTIC) Postdoctoral Fellowship
Pennsylvania	Quattrone Center Research Fellows
Princeton	The Arthur J. Liman Public Interest Law Fellowship
Stanford	Center for Law and the Biosciences Postdoctoral 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	Thomas C. Grey Fellowship Legal Research and Writing
Stanford	The Transatlantic Technology Law Forum (TTLF) Fellowships
Tennessee	Clayton Center for Entrepreneurial Law Visting Professor Program
Tulane	Forrester Fellowships
Tulane	Murphy Institute Visiting Assistant Professorship
Tulane	Yongxiong International Credit Law Fellowship
UCLA	Binder Clinical Fellowship Program
UCLA	Critical Race Studies Fellowship Program
UCLA	Law and Philosophy Program Post Doctoral Fellowship
Virginia	Research Assistant Professor of Law and Karsh Center for Law and Democracy Fellow
Wake Forest	Program for Leadership and Character
Wayne State	Oversight Fellowship Program
Yale	Information Society Project (Law and Technology) Resident Fellowship
Yale	Liman Law Fellowships in Public Interest
Yale	Robina Foundation Post-Graduate Fellowships in International Human Rights

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