Keywords
Application materials, academic hiring process, legal scholars, drafting an application, academic entrepreneurialism
Abstract
...to break the rules wisely, you have to know the rules well.
–Le Guin, Steering the Craft
I finished my doctorate in June of 2019. Most of my waking hours that late summer and early fall were spent writing and rewriting cover letters, teaching statements, and research agendas (and equity statements, long CVs, short CVs, etc.)—all the variegated materials demanded from applicants to tenure-track positions in North American law faculties. Writing those materials, and integrating the feedback on early drafts that I received from a host of generous peers and colleagues, became an accidental study in the principal subtext of my doctoral research: questions of genre, audience, and what we do through our writing as legal scholars.
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Recommended Citation
Liam McHugh-Russell, "Show and Tell" (2024) 47:1 Dal LJ.
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