About this template
The Law & Legal Studies template is an academic CV in Libre Baskerville with a burgundy accent — built around legal scholarship, peer-reviewed law-review publications, bar admissions and academic appointments. Formal in a way the legal academy still expects. The layout parses cleanly through Workday, Interfolio, AcademicJobsOnline, and the recruitment platforms of law faculties (AALS faculty hiring lists, UK law-school portals, Galaxie for French law faculties, Stellenwerk for German Juristische Fakultäten).
Who is it for?
It fits law professors and PhD candidates in tenure-track applications across private law, public law and legal history, judge-researchers transitioning to academic positions, candidates for chairs at Yale Law, Harvard Law, Oxford Law, Cambridge Law, Sciences Po Law, Bonn Faculty of Law, KU Leuven and La Sapienza, senior attorneys moving into clinical professorship roles, and compliance and regulatory-law researchers competing for sponsored chairs funded by law firms or regulators.
How to use it
Five blocks structure the document — Research (with branch of law and dominant method: doctrine, comparative law, sociology of law, law & economics), Publications (top law reviews ranked through Washington & Lee or Bepress: Yale Law Journal, Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, Cambridge Law Journal Tier-1), Admissions and qualifications (Bar, JD, LLM, French CRFPA), Teaching and clinical practice, Expert opinions and amicus curiae briefs. For US AALS applications, state the JD year and law school. Useful long-tail queries: 'law professor CV template', 'JSD job market CV', 'law clinic professor application', 'judge to academia transition CV', 'comparative law researcher CV'.
Frequently asked questions
Should I list French CNU qualification on a law CV?
Yes for any MCF or PR application to a French law faculty. State the qualification number, the section (1 Private Law, 2 Public Law, 3 Legal History), and the year obtained. For the agrégation du supérieur competition, add the rank (admissible, sous-admissible) if you have already competed. This frames your profile instantly for the hiring committee and avoids a paragraph of explanation in the cover letter.
How do I rank French and Anglo-American law reviews together?
For French reviews, use the HCERES section 1-3 ranking (Recueil Dalloz, RTDC, RFDA, JCP). For Anglo-American reviews, cite the Washington & Lee Law Journal Rankings or Bepress when available (Yale LJ, Harvard LR, Stanford LR, Cambridge LJ Tier-1). For European-law reviews (EUConst, ELJ, CMLR), cite the EUR or SSRN download rank. A Sciences Po Law, KU Leuven or Bonn committee reads both conventions fluently.
Is the template suitable for a senior attorney moving into academia?
Yes. Use a 'Practice experience' section listing firms, practice areas (M&A, constitutional litigation, antitrust, white-collar defence) and anonymised flagship matters. For clinical professorship roles (US law schools, UK clinical legal education programs, French écoles cliniques), add supervised student dossiers. Yale Law, Harvard Law and Sciences Po Law search committees value the practice-theory back-and-forth as a hiring signal — not a competing distraction.
