Posted by Randy Barnett:
Getting a Law Teaching Job II:
In response to my [1]Getting a Law Teaching Job in which I suggest
that candidates aim to have published two articles before going on the
market, Larry Solum posts on [2]Legal Theory Blog:
Right on the money--except that the magic number for publications
is THREE not two. "Why three?" you ask. Because the AALS form that
you will need to fill out leaves room for exactly three articles &
you want to have a post-graduation article for each of the three
spaces. The hardest part of the process is getting past the initial
screen--when members of faculty appointments committees read
hundreds and hundreds of AALS forms. Increasingly, their eyes seek
out the part of the form with the three publications--so you want
to make your best impression right at that moment!
Good advice. Another piece of advice is READ LEGAL THEORY BLOG
regularly. It is a uniquely valuable way to get to speed on current
legal scholarship. It is widely read by law students with teaching
aspirations.
I also neglected to mention the value of PhD's. If your academic
record after law school is not sufficient on its own to land a
teaching job, a PhD in economics, philosophy or history, especially
from a well-respeced program will GREATLY enhance your chances no
matter where you graduated from law school. Brian Leither has long
provided guidance to philosophy programs with his Philosophical
Gourmet. (I cannot get the link to [3]Philosophical Gourmet to open,
but you can find a summary [4]here.) He offers guidance to academic
job seekers [5]here.
References
1. http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2005_03_06-2005_03_12.shtml#1110409757
2.
http://lsolum.blogspot.com/archives/2005_03_01_lsolum_archive.html#111049728264231424
3. http://www.philosophicalgourmet.com/
4. http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2004/11/the_pgr_for_200.html
5.
http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/advice_for_academic_job_seekers/index.html
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