Teaching and Research Opportunities

Harvard Law School has many opportunities available for its students and graduates who want to become law professors, including one-on-one advising, workshops, and many other resources.  These efforts include Summer Academic Fellowships to allow current students to develop their research.  It also includes a new Visiting Assistant Professor (VAP) program, which offers those with significant legal practice experience the chance to make the transition to law school teaching.  HLS also offers the largest number of residential academic fellowships in the country for those moving toward a career as law professors.  HLS also offers a Post-Graduate Research Fellowship, a non-residential fellowship that allows HLS graduates to have access to legal research resources.

To view a short film about becoming a law teaching at HLS, starring former Dean Elena Kagan, along with Professors Jon Hanson, Randall Kennedy, Daryl Levinson, Charles Ogletree, Jed Shugerman, Elizabeth Warren, Dean Martha Minow, and many others, click here.

HLS residential academic fellows use their time here to prepare for for entry-level law teaching jobs, by undertaking original research and writing, and becoming members of the community of HLS and Harvard University scholars.  Some of our current fellows include:  Abbye Atkinson (HLS JD 2009), Reginald F. Lewis Fellow; Vincent Chiao (HLS JD 2008), Reginald F. Lewis Fellow; Katerina Linos, (HLS JD 2006) International Law Fellow; Stavros Gadinis (HLS SJD 2010), International Law Fellow; and Ganesh Sitaraman (JD 2008), Public Law Fellow.  You can learn more about these fellows by clicking on their names and visiting their websites.  

To learn more about these programs -- and the school's overall commitment to law teaching and research -- contact Akiba Covitz, Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs and Law Teaching Advising.