Description: The program is meant to help those who are preparing to enter the market for tenure-track teaching positions at US law schools.
Duration: One year
Teaching Load: One course or seminar per semester
Amount: $50,000
Deadline: Not accepting applications at this time

Description: The program is designed to provide students with a faculty that has diverse academic interests and legal practice experience and provides promising teachers an opportunity to bridge from their practice and legal writing teaching experience to doctrinal law teaching and academic scholarship.
Availability: Applicants must be out of law school a minimum of three years prior to the start of the academic year in which they would begin teaching in the program
Duration: Two years
Teaching Load: One section of legal writing per semester, one doctrinal course per year
Deadline: No closing date listed

Description: The Associates in Law Program offers post-graduate teaching fellowships for promising entry-level scholars who are preparing for legal academic careers.
Duration: Two years
Teaching Load: Legal Research and Writing, fall semester
Deadline: Currently closed

Description: With a vibrant faculty and a talented, engaged student body, Cornell Law School provides an unparalleled environment in which to prepare for a career in law teaching.
Availability: Applications are invited from law school graduates and from recipients of a Ph.D. in any field who have demonstrated a sustained interest in law.
Duration: Two to four semesters
Teaching Load: Variable
Deadline: January 31, 2020

Description: The Visiting Assistant Professor Program at Duke Law School supports aspiring law faculty.
Availability: We invite applications from graduates of any law school and any year of graduation. We encourage applications from those with experience in law practice. Candidates will be selected based on their potential to obtain a tenure-track position at a leading law school.
Duration: Two years
Teaching Load: One to two courses per academic year
Amount: The salary for each visiting assistant professor is $50,000 in the first year and $55,000 in the second year plus benefits (including health insurance).
Deadline: November 15, 2019

Description: The Illinois Academic Fellowship Program helps new legal academics place into tenure-stream positions at U.S. law schools.
Availability: Applications for the Illinois Academic Fellowship Program are invited from law school graduates as well as Ph.D. recipients or candidates in any field who have a sustained academic interest in law’s interaction with their discipline.
Duration: One or two years
Teaching Load: One class per semester
Amount: Illinois Academic Fellows receive a salary and full benefits, including health insurance.
Deadline: December 15, 2019