Louisiana State University Law Center welcomes applications for its Future Law Teachers Fellowship Program for the 2011-2012 academic year. The Law Center is interested in fellows who are looking for an opportunity to prepare themselves for careers in legal education, who have an aptitude for teaching, and who are highly motivated to produce legal scholarship. Candidates should have outstanding academic credentials, be admitted to the practice of law, and have at least one year of significant post-graduate legal or judicial clerkship experience. The initial appointment of fellows will be for one year, but it is anticipated that fellows will remain for a second year. Fellows will have an opportunity to teach legal research, legal writing, and oral advocacy to our first-year students. Those who continue into the second year will also be given an opportunity, during the fall semester, to teach a seminar or course in an area of their substantive interest. Fellows will be expected to engage in scholarly research and writing, and will be expected to have an article accepted for publication during their second year.
Fellows will be provided with faculty mentors who will advise them with respect to both teaching and scholarship, will have the opportunity to participate in faculty workshops, and will be provided with advice and practical assistance in their efforts to obtain tenure-track positions in the legal academy. Fellows will receive a salary of $60,000 plus benefits, summer research support, a moving allowance, and an allowance for professional travel and travel to interview for a tenure-track position at the AALS Conference.
The LSU Law Center is an autonomous unit of the LSU System, and is situated on the campus of LSU, Baton Rouge. The campus is located on more than 2,000 acres in the southern part of Baton Rouge, and it is bordered on the west by the Mississippi River. Baton Rouge, with a metropolitan area population of more than 500,000, is the capital of Louisiana. It is located approximately 90 minutes northwest of New Orleans.
Extensive renovations to the Law Centers buildings were completed in 2004 at a cost of more than $14 million. The buildings now feature inviting open spaces and state of the art technology, classrooms, and student activity facilities.
The Law Center is the only law school in the United States to offer a course of study leading to two simultaneous degrees: a Juris Doctor and a Graduate Diploma in either Comparative Law or Civil Law. Students at LSU Law are trained in the common law and federal law subjects that are taught at all other American law schools. In addition, our students receive the unique perspective of the civil law tradition as it functions in Louisiana and elsewhere in the world.
To apply, send a cover letter, resume, law school transcript (an unofficial transcript is acceptable), two letters of recommendation, and a writing sample to Professor Glenn G. Morris, Chair of the Faculty Appointments Committee, LSU Law Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-1000. The LSU Law Center is an Equal Opportunity/Equal Access employer.
