“Law schools are also very interested in the scholarly productivity or the candidate’s potential for scholarship, and how the candidate will contribute to the specific needs of the institution,” Miles adds. “Sometimes schools have specific course or practice areas that need to be filled. They may be looking to increase more diversity on the faculty; and I use this term in the broadest sense when I speak of diversity which could include a range of characteristics such as gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, religious background, socioeconomic background and even ideology.”
At the time Vanderbilt’s Moran entered teaching it was required that instructors have between two to six years of practical experience, she says. “Now people come out of school and go directly into teaching. It’s a very different profession.”
— By Tracie Powell
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