This was simply introduced Friday:
Alternative for Publish-JD Students
The Hoover Establishment at Stanford College is looking for an impressive early-career authorized scholar who’s enthusiastic about doing analysis on free speech regulation, in preparation for looking for an educational place at a regulation faculty or elsewhere.
If you’re chosen, you’ll work by yourself analysis with the steering and supervision of Senior Fellow Eugene Volokh, who’s coming to Hoover after 30 years as a Professor of Regulation at UCLA Faculty of Regulation. You’d be appointed a Analysis Fellow with the Middle for Revitalizing American Establishments (RAI), for one yr from July 2024 by June 2025; the time period could also be renewed, if each you and Hoover agree, for one additional yr. You’d be anticipated to be bodily current on the Establishment, and dealing at it full-time, with no competing main skilled commitments.
There isn’t any educating obligation, so you’ll have most time to analysis and write. You’d, nonetheless, be anticipated to assist set up and take part in occasional conferences, workshops, and lectures, and to work on occasional initiatives with Volokh or different Senior Fellows. These duties would all be associated to free speech regulation, and are anticipated to assist promote your individual analysis and future profession.
Eligibility standards:
- You could have a JD or its equal by June 2024.
- You could decide to staying for at the very least one yr (July 2024 by June 2025). The date vary may be moved again somewhat if required due to a judicial clerkship that may preserve you occupied till July to September 2024.
- We choose you probably have clerked for a choose or judges, or have a clerkship lined up for July 2025 or later.
- Work expertise as a lawyer will not be required, although some such expertise is a plus.
- A PhD in one other self-discipline will not be required, although neither is it frowned on.
- You could have written a publishable regulation journal article already whereas in regulation faculty or shortly after. Whether or not it has already been printed or not doesn’t matter, as long as it’s primarily full. That article needn’t have been on free speech regulation.
- You should be planning to work on free speech regulation, although understood capaciously. This isn’t restricted to First Modification regulation, however consists of federal or state statutes, frequent regulation guidelines, state constitutional provisions, transnational or worldwide authorized provisions, and guidelines of necessary personal establishments—as long as they relate to the regulation (or deregulation) of speech, press, expression, meeting, expressive affiliation, petition, and the like. Likewise, it consists of doctrinal, historic, theoretical, and empirical scholarship.
- We choose initiatives on necessary however insufficiently studied subjects, somewhat than on ones which have already been closely researched by others.
To use, please submit:
- Your resume.
- Your regulation faculty transcript.
- Plans for at the very least two analysis initiatives, described in some element; draft Introductions for what would turn out to be journal articles are typically an excellent format.
- Not less than one printed or accomplished and publishable analysis article.
- Some other articles, whether or not printed or in draft.
- Contact info for 3 professors or different authorized students who can converse to your mind, writing, or analysis agenda.
Necessities:
The Analysis Fellowship place gives full Stanford advantages with a wage vary of $80,000-100,000. Relying on particular person circumstances, a housing and relocation allowance might also be offered.Accomplished purposes should be submitted on-line at https://applyfsl.hoover.org
DEADLINE TO APPLY: January 8, 2024
Please direct inquiries to Thomas J Schnaubelt at [email protected]