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Fellowships and VAPs
Finding time to produce scholarship while working fulltime as a lawyer can be a difficult challenge. Law schools increasingly offer one- or two-year fellowships, which afford prospective candidates an opportunity to research, write, receive mentoring from senior faculty, and soak up the atmosphere of a law faculty.
Some of these carry teaching obligations, which itself can be a valuable experience and an aid in obtaining a full-time position, provided you get your writing done. Following is a partial list of Fellowships and Visiting Assistant Professorships (VAPs):
Alabama: Hugo Black Fellowship Program (for Supreme Court clerks)
Arizona: The Visiting Assistant Professor (VAP) Program
Boston: Visiting Assistant Professor Program
Brooklyn Law School: VAP Program (includes faculty directory listing for more information)
Chicago: Harry A. Bigelow Teaching Fellowship Program, John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics, Additional Academic Programs (e.g. Civil Justice, Comparative Constitutionalism, Law and Philosophy)
Chicago-Kent: Visiting Assistant Professor Program
Columbia: Academic Fellows Program, Associates-in-Law Program, Center for Reproductive Rights-Columbia Fellowship (online form containing program description and application), Columbia Fellowship on Climate Change Law, Kernochan Center Intellectual Property Fellowship
Columbia Law Review: James Milligan Law Review Fellowship (for alumni of Columbia Law Review)
Connecticut: Visiting Assistant Professor Program, contact: fac_chair@law.uconn.edu
Cornell: Visiting Assistant Professorships
Duke: Visiting Assistant Professor Program
The Federalist Society: Olin/Searle/Smith Fellows in Law Programs
Florida: Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.) in Taxation, LLM Programs (in Comparative Law, Environmental & Land Use Law, International Taxation)
Fordham: Visiting Assistant Professor Program
George Washington: Frank H. Marks Intellectual Property Fellowship, Visiting Associate Professor Program at George Washington University Law School, Jacob Burns Community Legal Clinics Friedman Fellowships
Georgetown: Georgetown University Law Center Graduate Fellowship Program for Future Law Professors (4th from top of page), Frank H. Marks Intellectual Property Fellowship, Additional Fellowships
Harvard: Climenko Fellowship, Petrie-Flom Academic Fellowships (for post-docs in health law, policy, or ethics), The Reginald F. Lewis Fellowships for Law Teaching, Visiting Assistant Professor Program, Additional Fellowships
Louisiana State University Law Center: Future Law Teachers Fellowship Program
Loyola-Chicago: Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies Research Fellowship
Loyola-L.A.: Visiting Assistant Professor (Tax)
Loyola-New Orleans: Westerfield Fellows Program
NYU: Furman Academic Fellowship Program (for NYU grads), Law and Economics Fellowship, Lawyering Program, Samuel I. Golieb Fellowship in Legal History, Additional Fellowships
Northwestern: Visiting Assistant Professors and Fellows (in Negotiations, Securities & Finance, and Taxation)
Penn State: Shughart Fellowship Program
Princeton: The Program in Law and Public Affairs (LAPA)
Seattle: Korematsu Teaching Fellowship Program
Stanford: Fellowship Program in Legal Research and Writing & Postdoctoral Fellowships, Additional Fellowships
Stetson: Jacobs Fellows Program
Temple: Abraham L. Freedman Teaching Fellowship
Tulane Law School: The Forrester Fellow Program
UC Berkeley: Berkeley Center for Law and Technology Microsoft Research Fellow
UCLA: The Williams Institute Sexual Orientation Law Teaching Fellowship, Lowell Milken Institute Law Teaching Fellowship
The University of Illinois College of Law: Illinois Academic Fellowship Program
The University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law: Tennessee Board of Regents Access & Diversity Assistant Professorship
University of Penn.: The George Sharswood, The Regulation & Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition (CTIC) Fellowships
University of Texas at Austin: Emerging Scholars Program
The University of Washington: Visiting Scholars Program
Wake Forest University School of Law: Visiting Assistant Professors Program
Washington University School of Law: Faculty Fellows Program
Wisconsin: Law & Society Post-doctoral Fellowship, William H. Hastie Fellowship Program
Yale: Yale Law School Ph.D. Program, Academic Fellowships and Public Interest Fellowships