Visiting and Retiring Faculty Registers

Visiting Faculty Register
The Visiting Faculty Register is a service only available for faculty who are identified in the current edition of the AALS Directory of Law Teachers as a faculty member or administrator at an AALS member (or fee paid) law school. Since 1971, the AALS has offered to full-time law teachers at approved schools an opportunity to be listed in the Visiting Faculty Register (VFR). This register, which is sent to deans and is made available to appointments committees, lists information such as the subjects a visitor is interested in teaching, as well as time period and location preferences. It is a service available to those interested in considering invitations to visit for all or part of an academic year but does not apply to summer visiting positions. The VFR is published in October and February, with respective deadlines for submission of the register form on October 10 (for the October edition) and February 10 (for the February edition).
• Click Here to Complete the Visiting Faculty Register Form

E-mail visitingfaculty@aals.org with any further questions.

Foreign Visiting Faculty Register
The Foreign Visiting Faculty Register is for faculty who are faculty members at non-U.S. law schools seeking to visit at a U.S. law school. Twice each year the Association circulates to law school deans a list of foreign legal scholars interested in visiting at a U.S. law school. The Foreign Visiting Faculty Register contains a summary of biographical information on each registrant, including his or her education, present law school affiliation, teaching experience in common law countries, U.S. law teacher references, and date of availability. The Foreign Visiting Faculty Register is published in October and February, with respective deadlines for submission of the register form on October 10 (for the October edition) and February 10 (for the February edition.)
• Click Here to Complete the Foreign Visiting Faculty Register Form

E-mail foreignvisitingfaculty@aals.org with any further questions.

Retiring Faculty Register
Many deans have expressed an interest in recruiting visiting faculty members from among those who have recently retired at other law schools. In response, the Association has for the past several years solicited the names of retiring faculty and published a list that is sent to deans in October and February of each year. The list contains the names of all retirees submitted to the AALS, without regard to their interest in teaching next year. In order to be listed on the retiring faculty register, a current or former faculty member must have the Dean at his/her former law school send an email stating that the person will soon retire (or has recently retired) from the school. For more information, e-mail retiringfaculty@aals.org.

If you have additional questions you can reach us by phone at 202-296-8851 or by e-mail at aals@aals.org

Existing faculty who would like more services should visit the Faculty Recruitment page. These services are only available for faculty who are identified in the current edition of the AALS Directory of Law Teachers as a faculty member or administrator at an AALS member (or fee paid) law school (for the Visiting Faculty Register and Retiring Faculty Register) or who are employed at a foreign law school as a law teacher or administrator (for the Foreign Visiting Faculty Register.)