Posted by David Bernstein: Are you an Attorney Who Wants to "Retire and Teach at a Law School"?: http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2007_07_08-2007_07_14.shtml#1184203938
Then read [1]this article. The two most salient points are that becoming a tenure-track law professor is far from "retiring," and the job is primarily "a writing job, not a teaching job." If, for example, you have no law review publications, almost no one is going to take you seriously as a faculty candidate, and certainly not as a candidate to arrive with tenure. I've on occasion had prominent government attorneys approaching retirement waste my time trying to persuade me that they would be the perfect candidate for a senior (tenured) appointment at GMU, even though they had none of the most significant attributes (most important scholarly record/evidence of scholarly promise) that we look for in any faculty candidate, much less a candidate seeking immediate tenure, and had no intention of remedying that before they went on the market. References 1. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=992489#PaperDownload _______________________________________________ Volokh mailing list [email protected] http://lists.powerblogs.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volokh
