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Prospective Law Professors

Paul Caron, Teaching Fellowships for Aspiring Law Professors

Gabriel Chin & Denise Morgan, Breaking into the Academy, 1 Mich. J. Race & L. 551 (1996).

Columbia Law School, Almost Everything You Need to Know About Law School Teaching

Columbia Law School, Job Search

Columbia Law School, Writing

Theodore Eisenberg & Martin Wells, Inbreeding in Law School Hiring:  Assessing the Performance of Faculty Hired from Within, 29 J. Legal Stud. 369 (2000).

Michael Froomkin, So You Want to Be a Law Professor?

Timothy Glynn, Law Teaching Interview Advice:  Part I, Part II

Eric Goldman, Careers in Law Teaching

Gonzaga University School of Law, Institute for Law School Teaching

James Gordley, Mere Brilliance:  The Recruitment of Law Professors in the United States, 41 Am. J. Comp. L. 367 (1993).

Harvard Law Record (Dina Awerbuch), Prof. Levinson Demystifies the Path to Legal Academia

Brian Leiter, Information and Advice for Persons Interested in Teaching Law

Michael Madison, Faculty Appointments:  Part I, Part II, Part III

Deborah Merritt & Barbara Reskin, The Double Minority:  Empirical Evidence of a Double Standard in Law School Hiring of Minority Women, 65 S. Cal. L. Rev. 2299 (1992).

Deborah Merritt & Barbara Reskin, Sex, Race, and Credentials:  the Truth About Affirmative Action in Law Faculty Hiring, 97 Colum. L. Rev. 199 (1997).

Martha NussbaumCooking for a Job:  The Law School Hiring Process, 1 Green Bag.2d 253 (1998). 

Terrance Sandalow, On Becoming a Law Professor, 1 Mich. J. Race & L. 580 (1996).

Daniel Solove, Law Teaching Interview Advice

Daniel Solove, Law Teaching Interview Advice:  How to Ace the Job Talk

Sara Stadler, The Bulls and Bears of Law Teaching, 63 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 25 (2006).

Marilyn Tucker, Considering a Career in Law Teaching?

Bradley Wendel, The Big Rock Candy Mountain:  How to Get a Job in Law Teaching

Yale Law School, Entering the Law Teaching Market

Don Zillman et al., Uncloaking Law School Hiring:  A Recruit’s Guide to the AALS Faculty Recruitment Conference

Current Law Professors

Bridget Crawford, Notes to a Research Assistant