Planning a Law Teaching Career
This page is intended to provide some information and guidance to Georgetown students and alumni/ae who are considering the possibility of a career in the legal academy
Introduction
The overwhelming majority of law students both at Georgetown and elsewhere enter law school intending to become lawyers. A growing number of our students, however, decide at some point during or after law school that they might want to become a law professor, either after or instead of practicing law, for at least a part of their professional lives. Most of these students or graduates reach this conclusion simply because they enjoyed the law school experience more than they thought they would. They excelled on their law journal, both as a writer and an editor. They enjoyed seminars, and want to do more intensive legal scholarship. They find the classroom experience exciting, and hope to engage it more fully, as a teacher rather than a student. They find law to be an interesting field of study. For whatever reasons, some law students and graduates begin to seriously contemplate the possibility of teaching law at some point in their careers.
If you find yourself in this group, then this page is designed for you. Until relatively recently, law schools did very little to help their graduates enter the legal academy, either by way of career guidance, or opportunities for advanced study. Continued Here...
