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Wednesday, August 14, 2024

Survey of Law Fellowships and VAPs

The following is a guest post from Nikita Aggarwal:

Fellowships and VAPs have become an important credential for entry-level positions in the U.S. legal academy. Jobseekers face a high level of informational opacity and asymmetry about the quality of fellowships and VAPs, i.e., the extent to which these programs help candidates prepare for, and succeed in, the entry-level job market. To help alleviate these informational constraints and improve the functioning of the fellowship and VAP market, I am carrying out a survey of former fellows and VAPs. To ensure the currency of the data, the survey is limited to those who completed fellowships in the last two academic years only (AY 2022-23 or AY 2023-24). If you completed a law fellowship or VAP program in the last  two years (AY 2022-23 or AY 2023-24), please consider filling out the Google form available at this link. Your responses will be aggregated, anonymized, and published in a searchable database, along with publicly available information about fellowship and VAP programs. Your name and email address will be collected to confirm your identity and mitigate fraudulent responses. But all personal identifiers, including your name and email address, will be removed before publication.  

Please feel free to email me with any queries or to share additional information: [email protected].

Updated 8/15/24 to add sentence regarding currency of the data.

Posted by Sarah Lawsky on August 14, 2024 at 07:54 AM in Getting a Job on the Law Teaching Market | Permalink

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