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Im interested in a future as a professor in legal academia any ideas of the best law school for this?

Yale.

sambeber wrote:Yale.

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dont think i will be able to get in but what about a paralegal professor?

1. Go to the best school you can get a free ride at.
2. After graduating open a law school.
3. Make yourself a law professor.

This will only take a bit over 3 years of eduaction. Plus you'll make bank from tuition $.

I know that Yale is the best for it but looking at lists of professors at some T40 schools there are a lot from the T14 but you can do some types of teaching like legal writing or something smaller than the core courses if you are set on teaching. No matter what though you need to be top of your class so do work.

buckilaw wrote:1. Go to the best school you can get a free ride at.
2. After graduating open a law school.
3. Make yourself a law professor.

This will only take a bit over 3 years of eduaction. Plus you'll make bank from tuition $.

just so long as OP remembers to attach brutal stips to the schollys he/she awards.

How do you know you want to be a law professor without having ever taken a law school class?

Just curious...you can get a decent idea of whether you want to be a lawyer by working in a law office, talking with lawyers about their jobs, etc; I suppose you could get the same idea by talking with law professors or sitting in on classes.

The easy way: T10 (preferably T6) school, near/at the top of your class, law review, impressive clerkship, solid interview skills.

Just be prepared for a monotonous, tedious life of writing obscure law review articles on topics no one cares about that no one will ever read. The money is good though.

1. Go to Yale
2. Make law review
3. Get SCOTUS clerkship
4. ????
5. PROFIT

Get a PhD in economics and a JD from Yale.

1) Open a TTT;

2) Pay the ABA dues/fees/bribes to secure accreditation;

3) Speak highly of the virtuosity, versatility, and career prospects (e.g., 160K salary) of the JD/LLM;

4) Recruit native, gullible minds and use them to milk the Fed Gov through student loans.

5) (OPTIONAL) Write academic papers about the state of the legal profession and/or blame globalization and technology for the plight affecting the legal profession.

Go to a top school
Get perfect grades
Make Law Review
Get a Federal Clerkship (preferably SCOTUS)

nygiants56 wrote:dont think i will be able to get in but what about a paralegal professor?

Wut?

NYC Law wrote:

nygiants56 wrote:dont think i will be able to get in but what about a paralegal professor?

Wut?

Like at DeVry.

pleasetryagain wrote:

NYC Law wrote:

nygiants56 wrote:dont think i will be able to get in but what about a paralegal professor?

Wut?

Like at DeVry.

I heard they only take Phoenix grads, its a prestige thing.

nygiants56 wrote:dont think i will be able to get in but what about a paralegal professor?

Devry

Yale LR
SCOTUS Clerkship
Princeton UG
major stick up your ass

CreativityKing wrote:How do you know you want to be a law professor without having ever taken a law school class?

Just curious...you can get a decent idea of whether you want to be a lawyer by working in a law office, talking with lawyers about their jobs, etc; I suppose you could get the same idea by talking with law professors or sitting in on classes.

OP thoroughly enjoys tweed... that's all you need to know

JamMasterJ wrote:

CreativityKing wrote:How do you know you want to be a law professor without having ever taken a law school class?

Just curious...you can get a decent idea of whether you want to be a lawyer by working in a law office, talking with lawyers about their jobs, etc; I suppose you could get the same idea by talking with law professors or sitting in on classes.

OP thoroughly enjoys tweed... that's all you need to know

myth. all my professors wear armani suits that look as though they were custom made.

Cooley.