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Chicago Alumni & Fellows on the law teaching market, 2025-26

MOVING TO FRONT, ORIGINALLY POSTED AUGUST 6

This post is strictly for schools that expect to do hiring this year.

In order to protect the privacy of our candidates, please e-mail me to get a copy of the narrative profiles of our candidates who are on the entry-level market this year and participating in the FAR.

We have an excellent group of eleven candidates this year:  two Bigelow fellows, one Behavioral Law & Economics Fellow, one Dickerson Fellow, one former Law & Philosophy Fellow, 5 JD alumni and 1 JSD alumnus.  They cover a wide range of curricular areas, including administrative law, antitrust, business organizations/corporate law, civil procedure, comparative law, constitutional law, contracts, criminal law, criminal procedure, election law, empirical legal studies, evidence, family law, federal courts, gender & law, housing law, insurance law, intellectual property, jurisprudence, land use, law & economics, law & politics, law, law & psychology, law & technology (including AI, emerging technologies and privacy), legal profession/professional responsibility, legislation, patents, professional responsibility, property, remedies, torts, white collar crime, and wills & estates.

Our candidates include former judicial clerks (at all levels, including the U.S. Supreme Court); former Law Review editors; JD/PhDs (in cognitive science, economics, political science, and sociology) and JSDs; current and former VAPs and Fellows; and accomplished practitioners as well as scholars, some with multiple publications.  All have writing samples available upon request.

If when you e-mail, you tell me a bit about your hiring needs, I can supply some more information about all these candidates, since we have vetted them all.

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