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Fellowships

Finding time to produce scholarship while working full-time as a lawyer can be a difficult challenge.  Law schools are increasingly offering one or two-year fellowships that 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)

Chicago: Harry A. Bigelow Teaching Fellowship Program, John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics, Additional 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 Law Review: James Milligan Law Review Fellowship (for alumni of Columbia Law Review)

Connecticut: Visiting Assistant Professor Program, contact: Jeremy Paul

Duke:  Visiting Assistant Professor Program

The Federalist Society: Olin/Searle/Smith Fellows in Law Programs

FloridaDoctor 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

Georgetown: Georgetown University Law Center Graduate Fellowship Program for Future Law Professors (4th from top of page), 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

NYU:  Furman Academic Fellowship Program (for NYU grads), Furman Center Law Fellowship (listed last on page), Lawyering Program, Samuel I. Golieb Fellowship in Legal History

Northwestern: Visiting Assistant Professors and Fellows (in Negotiations, Securities & Finance, and Taxation)

Stanford: Fellowship Program in Legal Research and Writing

UCLA:  The Williams Institute Sexual Orientation Law Teaching Fellowship

Univ. of Texas at Austin: Emerging Scholars Program

Wisconsin:  Law & Society Post-doctoral Fellowship, William H. Hastie Fellowship Program

Yale:  Information Society Project Resident Fellowship, Robert M. Cover Fellowship Program, Oscar M. Ruebhausen and Irving S. Ribicoff Fellowships (PDF containing program description and contact information), Additional Fellowships