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    Yale isn’t running an admissions cycle this year but we’ll be thinking about how to do things next year, and…

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Chicago Alumni and Fellows on the law teaching market, 2026-27

MOVING TO FRONT FROM AUG 14

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:  three Bigelow fellows, one Data Institute Law Fellow, 4 JD alumni, and 3 JSD alumni. They cover a wide range of curricular areas, including administrative law, business associations, civil procedure, civil rights, climate law, comparative constitutional law, constitutional law, contracts, copyright, criminal law & procedure, empirical legal studies, employment law, energy law, environmental law, evidence, family law, federal courts, First Amendment, foreign relations law, insurance law, international law, law & economics, law & religion, law & technology (including AI), legislation, local government law, music & entertainment law, prison law, professional responsibility, tax policy, torts, trademarks and wills & estates.

Our candidates include former judicial clerks; former Law Review editors; JD/PhDs and JSDs; current and former VAPs and Fellows; and accomplished practitioners as well as scholars, many 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 almost all of them.

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