With an eye towards diversifying the legal academy’s administrative staff and faculty, the SALT board of governors voted to create a new committee—New Teachers’ Pipeline—to encourage law school students, fellows, and practitioners of color, LGBT, women, and other underrepresented groups to consider a career in legal academia.

Want to Ask Some Questions? SALT is committed to helping the next generation of progressive law teachers and scholars enter the academy.  Besides supporting and co-sponsoring pipeline events like the ones featured here, our New Teachers Pipeline Committee is available to discuss with you any questions or concerns you might have as you approach a career in the academy.

SALT is an organization for all involved in legal education --- clinicians, classroom professors, deans, administrators, fellows, librarians, adjuncts and legal writing teachers – who are dedicated to justice, diversity and academic excellence. 

Contact a SALT Board Member to find a mentor in your area:

Constitutional Law: Barbara Bernier  
Torts: Larry Levine
Property/Env’t /Energy:  Hari Osofsky
Criminal:  Adele Morrison
Civ Pro/Commercial Law : Jackie Gardina
Family Law:  Solangel Maldonado 
Legal Writing: Olympia Duhart 
Int’l/Comparative Law:  Tayyab  Mahmud
Clinical: Emily Benfer

SALT thanks the following law schools for their generous support for the New Teachers' Pipeline by hosting and sponsoring these programs at their schools:

CUNY, Golden Gate, Nova Southeastern, Northeastern, The John Marshall Law School, Northern Illinois University, University of Minnesota, Hamline University, St. Thomas University, William Mitchell Law School, and Chapman University

Library of New Teachers’ Pipeline Materials:

• Professor Fabio Arcila's Essay and Bibliography on entering the legal profession, updated February 2012
• Link to fellowship opportunities at American law schools posted by Paul Caron, February 2012
• September 16, 2011 Program: Breaking In: How to Become a Law Professor or Law School Administrator: co-sponsored and hosted by the John Marshall Law School and co-sponsored by Northern Illinois University College of Law
• September 16, 2011 Entering the Law Teaching Market, by Professor Margaret Kwoka, The John Marshall Law School
• June 17, 2011 Program: Breaking into Law Teaching: New England The Pipeline to the Legal Academy co-sponsored by Northeastern University School of Law
• June 17, 2011 Resource Guide for Breaking into Law Teaching: New England The Pipeline to the Legal Academy co-sponsored by Northeastern University School of Law
• May 20, 2011 Program with CUNY and Center for Diversity in Legal Profession
• March 31, 2011 Program at Nova Southeastern
• March 21, 2010 Program
  
• Doctrinal Teaching
  
• Fellows & Visitors
  
• Legal Writing
  
• 2010 Bibliography of Resources
  
• 2011 Bibliography of Resources prepared by Nareissa Smith
• Becoming a Law Professor, essay and bibliography by Fabio Arcila, distributed at Third National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, September 2010

Be sure to read: From Both Sides Now: The Job Talk’s Role in Matching Candidates with Law Schools by Anne Enquist, Paula Lustbader, John B. Mitchell

Interested in learning more about hosting a Breaking In program at your school?  Contact Barbara Bernier or  Hazel Weiser .