Sarah Lawsky is Professor of Law and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at UC Irvine School of Law. Her area of expertise is tax law, but she is also a leading aggregator and analyst of entry-level hires of law school faculty in the U.S. In this episode of UCI Law Talks, she discusses the health of the legal market, which has been the subject of much discussion, and unpacks exactly what has happened in the law teaching market and identifies characteristics associated with obtaining an entry-level job in this increasingly uncertain part of the academy. Learn more with these links to her reports:
• 2015 Entry Level Hiring Report (PDF): http://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/lawsky/2015EntryLevelHiringReport.20151209.pdf
• 2015 Entry Level Hiring Report (blog post): http://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/prawfsblawg/2015/05/spring-self-reported-entry-level-hiring-report-2015.html
• All PrawfsBlawg Entry Level Hiring Posts: http://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/prawfsblawg/entry-level-hiring-report/
• Actual entry level hires for 2013: http://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/prawfsblawg/2014/03/2013-full-hiring-report.html
• All PrawfsBlawg posts on Getting a Job on the Law Teaching Market: http://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/prawfsblawg/getting_a_job_on_the_law_teaching_market/
Professor Lawsky's UCI Law profile page: http://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/lawsky/
