Webinar: How to Become a Law Teacher

This webinar is for law school career development professionals, current students, and graduates who may have an interest in law teaching.

How to Become a Law Teacher is designed to provide useful information about the faculty hiring process within the legal academy. Only a small segment of law schools are able to provide dedicated career counselors for students who seek careers in legal academia. This information will help career counselors at member schools, as well as prospective law teachers themselves, as we work to attract a wider, more diverse group of qualified candidates to the legal academy.

The panelists are a group of recently hired law faculty, experienced hiring chairs, and current deans. This webinar will also provide an overview of resources that AALS offers to assist and support candidates throughout the hiring process and while they are members of the legal academy.

Panelists will discuss:

1. Concrete actions that law students can take while in law school to make them more competitive candidates when applying for law teaching jobs.
2. Different pathways for entering legal academia.
3. Nuts and bolts of the hiring process including the typical hiring cycle, what to expect at different phases of the hiring process, and tips for an effective job talk.