Apply to be a Bigelow Fellow

Harry A. Bigelow Teaching Fellowships

Each year the University of Chicago Law School awards six Harry A. Bigelow Teaching Fellowships. The Fellowships offer recent law school graduates an opportunity to prepare for an academic career. Fellows can pursue scholarly interests, attend workshops, interact with the faculty, and audit courses or seminars. The Bigelow program has been very successful in placing its Fellows in tenure-track academic positions in law schools.

The Fellows' primary responsibility is to design and carry out a program of tutorial instruction for first-year students. The Bigelow Program provides instruction in legal research, writing, and analysis. The faculty considers the program to be a major element in the first-year curriculum and an indispensable aid in developing students' critical and analytical skills. Although the Fellows construct much of their curriculum, members of the faculty supervise the Program as a whole.

Initial Fellowship appointments are for one year and can be renewed for a second year; most Bigelow Fellows serve for two years. Bigelow Fellows who return for a second year have the opportunity to teach an upper-level seminar on a topic of their choosing (subject to approval) in addition to the legal research and writing course.

Applications are invited from students now finishing the work for their first degree in law and from law graduates who wish to enter the academic field. If you have questions about the program, please contact Professor Adam Chilton (adamchilton@uchicago.edu) or Professor Laura Weinrib (weinrib@uchicago.edu).

To be considered as a candidate for this position, you MUST apply on the UChicago Academic Careers site. You will be required to furnish a resume, cover letter, law school transcript, writing sample, and reference contact information for two or three recommenders who you have asked to write letters on your behalf.

Resume, cover letter, reference contact information, and writing sample must be submitted electronically on the web site at the time of application. The writing sample may be published or unpublished, but should be a work of legal scholarship. Your law school transcript must be emailed to bigelowapps@law.uchicago.edu. Please ask your recommenders to email their letters of reference to us at bigelowapps@law.uchicago.edu. We will also gladly accept additional writing samples, published or unpublished, at that same email address.

We have filled our positions for 2017-18. Screening for our 2018-19 positions will begin on August 31, 2017.

The University of Chicago is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity/Disabled/Veterans Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, age, status as an individual with a disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or other protected classes under the law. For additional information please see the University's Notice of Nondiscrimination. Job seekers in need of a reasonable accommodation to complete the application process should call 773-702-0287 or email ACOppAdministrator@uchicago.edu with their request.

Job Placements for Every Bigelow Fellow, 2001 to the Present