How Hard is it to be a Professor W/O Publications? Forum

[lawlorbust]

It's very strange to me that someone with OP's credentials (HYS, WLRK) would have no idea about the basic requirements of academia and would solicit advice on an internet message board.

[Companion Cube]

It's very strange to me that someone with OP's credentials (HYS, WLRK) would have no idea about the basic requirements of academia and would solicit advice on an internet message board.

Sure shows the inherent "value" of a preftigious degree

[FSK]

WLRK has done right by this hire.

[fats provolone]

aschup callout thread

[dissonance1848]

The OP sounds like a flame. OP is from HYS, gets WLRK, but is on a secondary journal. WTF? I don't buy this at all. Can someone speak for LR being far more time consuming than secondaries? I also can't believe that someone being an A type, which is the only way the above combo got accomplished, is so ignorant about the legal market.

Conditional on this not being flame, the OP should go get that PhD, especially in econ or philosophy. Doing a Fed clerkship, the more prestigious the better, would also help with landing a professorship.

[rpupkin]

The OP sounds like a flame. OP is from HYS, gets WLRK, but is on a secondary journal. WTF?

Why do you find this implausible?

[Ohiobumpkin]

Publish or perish. /thread.

[chup]

Hi all, I currently attend HYS

(is actually a Columbia transfer)

[lavarman84]

Hi all, I currently attend HYS

(is actually a Columbia transfer)

This is weird. I mean, I understand trolling...but I don't understand lying about yourself to ask pointless questions. That's a weird use of a person's time.

[WheninLaw]

You'd be looking at the Climenko fellowship or Bigelow fellowship (or similar at other schools). A couple of years to teach legal research and writing and maybe one other class; time to write and publish.

If you don't want to write you aren't going to get a real prof job at a decent law school.

This. It's a little unbelievable how supportive people in this thread have been. OP has no idea what a professor actually does, and doesn't want to do it anyways. Moreover, many of the Bigelow's are former SCOTUS clerks with multiple publications and often with PHD's. Summering at WRLK? lulz.

[A. Nony Mouse]

You'd be looking at the Climenko fellowship or Bigelow fellowship (or similar at other schools). A couple of years to teach legal research and writing and maybe one other class; time to write and publish.

If you don't want to write you aren't going to get a real prof job at a decent law school.

This. It's a little unbelievable how supportive people in this thread have been. OP has no idea what a professor actually does, and doesn't want to do it anyways. Moreover, many of the Bigelow's are former SCOTUS clerks with multiple publications and often with PHD's. Summering at WRLK? lulz.

Not sure how supportive the thread has been when everyone's told OP they can't do what they're proposing to do.