Apply to be a Harry A. Bigelow Teaching Fellow
Each year the University of Chicago Law School awards six Harry A. Bigelow Teaching Fellowships. The Fellowships offer law school graduates an opportunity to prepare for an academic career. Fellows can pursue scholarly interests, attend workshops, interact with other 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 Law School considers the program to be a major element in the first-year curriculum and an indispensable aid in developing students’ critical and analytical skills.
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 typically 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 Douglas G. Baird (dbaird@uchicago.edu) or Professor John Rappaport (jrappaport@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, sample writing, and reference contact information for two or three recommenders who are writing Ietters on your behalf. The writing may be published or unpublished.
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 773-702-1032 or email equalopportunity@uchicago.edu with their request.
Academic Years | Name | First job after completion of fellowship | Current institution |
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1999-2001 | Eric R. Claeys | St. Louis University | George Mason |
1999-2001 | Lee A. Fennell | University of Texas | University of Chicago |
1999-2001 | Robert A. Katz | Indiana University, Indianapolis | Indiana University, Indianapolis |
2000-02 | James P. Madigan | Goldberg Kohn | Greenberg Traurig LLP |
2000-02 | Jonathan Nash | Tulane | Emory |
2000-02 | Ryan Goodman | Harvard | NYU |
2001-03 | Adam Feibelman | University of Cincinnati | Tulane University |
2001-03 | Andrea Bjorklund | UC Davis | UC Davis |
2001-03 | Tom Colby | George Washington University | George Washington University |
2002-04 | Adam B. Cox | University of Chicago | NYU |
2002-04 | Jenia Iontcheva Turner | SMU Dedman | SMU Dedman |
2002-04 | Jide O. Nzelibe | Northwestern University | Northwestern University |
2003-04 | Stephanie Stern | Loyola University Chicago | Chicago-Kent |
2003-05 | Elizabeth Emens | Columbia | Columbia |
2003-05 | John Bronsteen | Loyola University Chicago | Loyola University Chicago |
2004-06 | Kirsten Smolensky | University of Arizona | Left legal academia |
2004-06 | Lesley Wexler | Florida State University | University of Illinois |
2004-06 | Rachel Brewster | Harvard | Duke |
2004-06 | William Ford | John Marshall | John Marshall |
2005-07 | David Fagundes | Southwestern | University of Houston |
2005-07 | Jonathan Masur | University of Chicago | University of Chicago |
2006-08 | Daniel Abebe | University of Chicago | University of Chicago |
2006-08 | Jamelle Sharpe | University of Illinois | University of Illinois |
2006-08 | Joshua Bowers | University of Virginia | University of Virginia |
2006-08 | Robin Effron | Brooklyn | Brooklyn |
2007-09 | Irina Manta | Case Western Reserve University | Hofstra |
2007-09 | Shyamkrishna Balganesh | University of Pennsylvania | University of Pennsylvania |
2008-10 | Adam Badawi | Washington University in St. Louis | Berkeley |
2008-10 | Adam Muchmore | Penn State | Penn State |
2008-10 | Arden Rowell | University of Illinois | University of Illinois |
2008-10 | Mary Anne Franks | University of Miami | University of Miami |
2009-11 | Tony Casey | University of Chicago | University of Chicago |
2009-11 | Anthony Niblett | University of Toronto | University of Toronto |
2009-11 | Matt Tokson | Supreme Court - Justice Souter | University of Utah |
2010-12 | Naomi Schoenbaum | George Washington University | George Washington University |
2010-12 | Andres Sawicki | University of Miami | University of Miami |
2010-12 | Julia Simon-Kerr | University of Connecticut | University of Connecticut |
2011-13 | Anya Bernstein | SUNY Buffalo | SUNY Buffalo |
2011-13 | Alex Boni-Saenz | Chicago-Kent | Chicago-Kent |
2011-13 | Victoria Schwartz | Pepperdine | Pepperdine |
2012-14 | Vince Buccola | The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania |
2012-14 | Roger Ford | University of New Hampshire | University of New Hampshire |
2012-14 | Greg Reilly | California Western | Chicago-Kent College of Law |
2013-14 | Adam Chilton | University of Chicago | University of Chicago |
2013-15 | Genevieve Lakier | University of Chicago | University of Chicago |
2013-15 | John Rappaport | University of Chicago | University of Chicago |
2014-16 | Paul Crane | University of Richmond | University of Richmond |
2014-16 | Nadia Nasser-Ghodsi | Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (tenure-track offer declined) |
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau |
2014-16 | Ryan Doerfler | University of Pennsylvania | University of Chicago Law School |
2014-16 | Heather Whitney | Tenure-track offer declined | PhD candidate in philosophy at New York University |
2015-17 | Ben Grunwald | Duke University | Duke University |
2015-17 | Michael C. Pollack | Cardozo Law School/Yeshiva University | Cardozo Law School/Yeshiva University |
2016-18 | Brian Feinstein | The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania |
2016-18 | Hiba Hafiz | Boston College Law School | Boston College Law School |
2016-18 | Dorothy Shapiro Lund | USC Gould School of Law | USC Gould School of Law |
2016-18 | Diego Zambrano | Stanford Law School | Stanford Law School |
2017-19 | Emma Kaufman | New York University School of Law | New York University School of Law |
2017-19 | Manisha Padi | University of California Berkeley Law | University of California Berkeley Law |
2018-19 | Stephanie Holmes Didwania | Temple University Beasley School of Law | Temple University Beasley School of Law |
2018-20 | Travis Crum | Washington University of St. Louis School of Law | |
2018-20 | Cree Jones | BYU J. Reuben Clark Law School | |
2018-20 | Roseanna Sommers | University of Michigan Law School |