Advice for Academic Job Seekers
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Lawsky’s (final) entry level hiring report for 2022
Here (earlier version). 118 tenure-track hires last year, at 75 schools! That's the highest number in a decade, although still short of the 150+ figure most years prior to the Great Recession.
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Florida lawyers take position in court that public university faculty curricula and classroom speech are “government speech,” so regulable by state
Those thinking about taking jobs in the Florida public university system will want to watch this case. If it makes it to SCOTUS, we may find out if Garcetti extends to faculty at public universities; if it does that will be the end of academic freedom at public universities.
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71 applicants in the 2nd FAR distribution from the AALS…
…compared to 39 last year. Probably the attention accorded to the astonishingly low number of applicants in the first distribution in August inspired a few latecomers to enter the market.
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Where did aspiring law teachers in the first FAR graduate law school? (And why are there so few candidates in the first FAR?)
MOVING TO THE FRONT FROM AUGUST 22–MANY INTERESTING COMMENTS, MORE WELCOME The AALS has implemented a better search engine, which allows one to identify where candidates received their JD (thus excluding LLM and SJD graduates from the picture, which makes for a cleaner comparison between schools). Here is the distribution in the first FAR for…
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The first FAR is out…
…and there are only 272 applicants for law teaching positions! Since this year is, I expect, going to have even more schools searching than last year, this will be a great year to be a job seeker. I do wonder whether the second FAR distribution won't have more resumes than usual. 272 is very low.…
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The AALS springs another surprise on job seekers
The first round FAR forms were due yesterday. The AALS has continued its tradition of springing surprises on job seekers. The last two years the surprise was, first, abandoning the old FAR form, and then, the next year, reinstating it, with some minor modifications (most notably, eliminating the secondary list of teaching interests). This year's…
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Law schools hiring in 2022-23 can announce their plans/needs…
…at the annual Prawfs thread, courtesy of Professor Lawsky.
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Professor Lawsky’s Entry-Level Hiring Report for 2021-22
The report is now available here. Professor Lawsky recorded 106 hires, the most in a good number of years, although nothing like the numbers before 2010, when 150 or more was the norm. Inevitably some rookie hires are missed: Chicago had three grads on the market, all three of whom received tenure-track offers, but it…
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If you’ve accepted a tenure-track law teaching job…
…submit your information to Professor Lawsky's annual report on entry-level hiring.
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What are standard law school teaching loads these days?
Professor Jeff Sovern (St. John's) writes: I wonder whether schools that perform better on lists like the citation lists posted on this blog from time to time have lower requirements for the amount of teaching professors do and if so, how much. I am also curious to know what standard law school teaching expectations are…
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Congratulations to the Chicago Alumni and Fellows on the law teaching market who secured tenure-track jobs this year
All our candidates received offers this year (including those that only searched selectively), and several received more than one offer. They are: Adam A. Davidson’17, who will join the faculty at the University of Chicago. He is currently a Bigelow Fellow at the Law School. He graduated with Honors from the Law School where he…
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Blast from the past: On “joint appointments” prior to tenure
From 2012, but still relevant.
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University of Chicago Law School now accepting applications for Bigelow Fellowships
You can apply here. You can see the academic placement of past Bigelow Fellows here (scroll down).
I only just learned of Barry’s passing, and I’m enormously saddened at the news. I wrote my PhD on his…