Brooklyn Law School’s Visiting Assistant Professor Program provides an ideal environment for the brightest legal minds to prepare for a career teaching law. With the goal of helping to launch promising young intellectuals into the academic world, the program attracts participants with strong academic backgrounds, and a range of experience in practice and judicial clerkships.
Visiting Assistant Professors (known as VAPs) typically spend two academic years in residence at the Law School, gaining both teaching experience and the opportunity to devote substantial time to research, writing, and other scholarly pursuits. They typically teach one course each semester and participate fully in the academic life of the Law School community. Particpants present work in progress to faculty and students, receive feedback and mentoring from faculty members, and often participate in conferences, colloquia, and other BLS programs. They enjoy complete access to all of the resources of the Law School’s library and support staff, and they are entitled to hire student research assistants, which both advances their research and gives students the opportunity to participate in the development of cutting-edge scholarship.
Brooklyn Law School’s VAP Program provides an important service that many law schools are now offering. “We take our role seriously as leaders in the development of the next generation of legal intellectual thought,” says Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Lawrence Solan. “Through this program, our students have the opportunity to learn from some of the most promising young scholars in the field.”
Now with several years of experience, the BLS program has prepared participants to secure positions in law schools around the country.
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