Conversations

Now that my series interviewing VAP and fellowship directors has ended, I wanted to reflect on the broader lessons that I learned from these interviews. Your takeaways may differ, so I hope you chime in in the comments if you think there are different or additional takeaways that prospective candidates and/or hiring committees… 

Over the summer and fall, I interviewed the directors of 14 VAP/fellowship/Ph.D. programs. As the series comes to an end, I wanted to discuss some of the main takeaways as well as highlight some questions that these interviews raised for me. These reflections may take a few posts, but in this first… 

I’m excited to announce the latest interview in my series on VAP and fellowship programs. This interview is with Stuart Benjamin, the Douglas B. Maggs Professor of Law and co-director of the Center for Innovation Policy at Duke Law School. He spoke to me about Duke’s Visiting Assistant Professor Program.… 

I’m excited to announce the latest interview in my series, interviewing VAP and fellowship directors.  This interview is with Theodore Ruger, Dean and Bernard G. Segal Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He spoke to me about the various fellowship programs at Penn Law, including the… 

Next up in my series interviewing VAP and fellowship directors is Candace Zierdt, a Professor at the Stetson University College of Law.  For the past decade, she has served as the Director of the Bruce R. Jacob Visiting Assistant Professor Program at Stetson.  An edited transcript of our conversation is below, and I… 

For those of you who have been following my series, you know that it generally focuses on VAP and fellowship directors. This interview, like my earlier interview about Berkeley’s JSP. program, focuses on a related, but slightly different, trend in law faculty hiring—the increase in the number of entry-level hires with… 

I’m excited to announce the next latest interview in my my series interviewing VAP and fellowship directors. This interview is with Adam Feibelman, the Sumter Davis Marks Professor of Law at Tulane Law School and Director of the Program in Regulation and Coordination at Tulane’s Murphy Institute.  Adam has historically helped manage… 

For those of you who have been following my interview series you know that it generally focuses on VAP and fellowship directors. This interview, however, focuses on a related, but slightly different, trend in law faculty hiring—the increase in the number of entry-level hires with Ph.D.’s. I spoke with Professor Calvin Morrill, who… 

Next up in my series interviewing VAP and fellowship directors is is Miriam Seifter, an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School. For the past two years, she has chaired the committee that oversees the William H. Hastie Fellowship Program at Wisconsin. An edited transcript of our conversation is below, and I… 

Next up in my series interviewing VAP and fellowship directors is Andrew Williams, who is the Director of the Lawyering Program at New York University School of Law. An edited transcript of our conversation is below, and I have invited Andy to respond to any questions in the comments on Prawsblawg. Thanks, Andy, for participating in… 

Below is the latest interview in my series interviewing VAP and fellowship directors. This interview is with Michael Heller, the Lawrence A. Wien Professor of Real Estate Law at Columbia Law School. Michael oversees the Associates-in-Law Program at Columbia. An edited transcript of our conversation is below, and I have invited Michael to respond to any questions in… 

Here is the next interview in my series interviewing VAP and fellowship directors. Thanks to Jeanne Merino, the Director of the First-Year Legal Research and Writing Program at Stanford Law School, for participating in this series! She oversees the fellows in Stanford’s Thomas C. Grey Fellowship for Legal Research and Writing (LRW). An edited transcript of… 

I am excited for the next post in my series interviewing VAP and fellowship directors. This interview is with Daniel Markovits, the Guido Calabresi Professor of Law at Yale Law School and the Founding Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Private Law. The Center typically has one… 

I’m excited to announce the latest interview in my series interviewing VAP and fellowship directors. This interview is with Bob Lawless, the Max L. Rowe Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law. Bob has historically overseen Illinois’s Academic Fellowship Program. An edited transcript of our conversation… 

Here is the second interview in my series interviewing VAP and fellowship directors. Thanks to Susannah Barton Tobin, the Managing Director of the Climenko Fellowship Program and Assistant Dean for Academic Career Advising at Harvard Law School, for participating in this series! An edited transcript of our conversation is below,… 

It’s finally time for the first posted interview in my series interviewing VAP and fellowship directors. Thanks to Professor Adam Chilton, the co-director of Harry A. Bigelow Teaching Fellowship program at the University of Chicago Law School, for participating in this series! An edited transcript of our conversation is below, and I have invited Adam… 

In an earlier post, I explained my plan to interview as many VAP and fellowship directors as I can this summer, with the goal of improving transparency into how these programs work and how to make the most of them. The series itself will start in June, but first I want your… 

Thanks, Howard, for introducing this new series! As Howard mentioned, I am the Chair of the AALS Committee on Becoming a Law Teacher. The Committee’s goal is to improve the available resources regarding how to become a law professor. There is information out there already, to be sure, but it is pretty…