The Private Law Center also plays a key role in training the next generation of legal academics, typically supporting two full-time, resident fellows: the fellow in private law and the clinical fellow in private law. Previous fellows have obtained tenure-track positions at top law faculties in the United States and abroad. The center’s ambition is that alumni of the center’s fellowships will help expand the center’s influence throughout the legal academy even further in the years to come.
The fellow in private law facilitates programming related to private law through the Center for Private Law, including primary responsibility for planning and coordinating the annual Seminar in Private Law. The remainder of the fellow’s time is spent engaging with and producing legal scholarship in preparation for the tenure-track legal academic job market. The current fellow in private law is Abby Lemert.
The clinical fellow in private law, along with Professor Markovits, is responsible for managing the Private Law Clinic, including planning and teaching weekly clinic seminars as well as managing the clinic’s docket and supervising students’ clinical work. The clinical fellow also engages with and contributes to cutting-edge legal scholarship in the Clinic’s areas of interest. The current clinical fellow in private law is Anthony Sampson.
Fellowship hiring occurs on an irregular basis at the center, but all fellowship job postings will be posted to the center’s website