Despite what you may have heard, it is possible to become a tenure-track law professor after an extensive career in practice. If you have a proclivity for scholarship and a passion for teaching, I think you will be warmly welcomed by the academy. After almost 20 years practicing corporate law,…
I wanted to become a law professor because, while I enjoyed my practice experience representing workers in labor antitrust litigation, I kept coming up against a system of labor protections that felt too broken to fix without deeper research and a broader conceptual reworking. I also missed the classroom and…
I went to law school to be a strategic civil rights litigator, and I didn’t realize I was interested in academia until after I left. Although I enjoyed my clerkships, I missed teaching and learning, I missed academic discussions, and, critically, I missed writing. As a law student, I had…