MOVING TO FRONT FROM NOVEMBER 2
Chicago has in recent years made a substantial commitment to its JSD program (a 2-3 program involving the writing of a dissertation), including, most recently, accepting applications from anyone with at least one common-law law degree (JD, LLB, LLM), even if they have no U.S. law degree. I particularly welcome applicants to the JSD interested in issues in general jurisprudence that I work on. Recent changes at Oxford might make this opportunity of particular interest to those who have completed the B.Phil. there, and are now considering where to complete their studies. As I noted in a previous post,
Four law schools dominate the market for new law teachers [in the U.S.]: Chicago, Harvard, Stanford, and Yale. (With the exception of Stanford, these are also three of the top four faculties in scholarly influence, as well as the four schools that graduate the most Supreme Court clerks.) On a per capita basis, Yale is ahead of the other three in placement in law teaching (primarily a selection effect), and these four are ahead of everyone else (see, e.g., this from 2011 and this from 2007, although not much has changed in the interim). On a placement success rate basis (i.e., percentage of academic job seekers who actually get tenure-track jobs), Chicago and Yale generally dominate.
JSD's from Chicago have taken teaching jobs on the law faculties at Peking, Melbourne, Toronto, Tel-Aviv, Hebrew U, George Mason, and Illinois, among other places.
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