In August, the annual recruitment of new professors for law schools officially gets underway. Later this month, the AALS will release the first batch of “FAR” forms for the 2013-14 hiring season. This deceptively simple on-line questionnaire is just the beginning of what, for most candidates, is a grueling, months’-long process.
We thought it might be interesting and useful to talk with several candidates who are “on the market” this year, to see how they are thinking about the process, and what kinds of advice they have received. Over the past two decades, I have been involved with this process from various vantage points, as a member or chair of hiring committees, as an adviser to graduate students in both legal history and American religious history.
I interviewed three of this years’ candidates, each of whom has a law degree and one of whom has finished the Ph.D. The other two are at various stages of work on the dissertation, one quite far along, the other less so, but still having made considerable progress on research and some writing. Two are doing joint degrees; one has done the J.D. and Ph.D. degrees seriatim.
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