Academic Scholars – Shook Hardy & Bacon Student Fall

Academic Scholars – Shook Hardy & Bacon Student Fall 2026

Position Overview

Overview of the Program
The Shook Hardy & Bacon Scholars Program is a part of the Law School’s Academic Resources Program. Funding for this program comes from a grant from the law firm of Shook Hardy & Bacon. Shook Hardy and Bacon Scholars will lead a structured study group during the fall semester for a small group of 1L students, including international students. The study group will focus on one of the students’ doctrinal classes but will also help students generally as they learn about the U.S. legal system.

Scholars will provide participants with a role model for successful law student study skills.

Benefits
Scholars will be paid $15.50 an hour. Note that under law school rules students are not allowed to work more than 20 hours per week. Scholars generally work 6 to 10 hours each week.

Responsibilities:

• 35% General Responsibilities – Scholars will be assigned a group of roughly five students. Scholars will not specifically be tutoring students but will instead be helping them find answers to their questions and modeling successful law student study skills.
• 30% Attend Class – Scholars must attend all four hours of one of the following classes:
  • Civil Procedure (Professor Brett), which meets MTWR 11:25am – 12:20pm
  • Contracts (Professor Platt), which meets MTRF 1:35 – 2:30pm
  • Contracts (Professor Korzun), which meets TWF 9:15 – 10:10am and W 8:20 – 9:05am
  • Torts (Professor McAllister), which meets MTW 11:25am – 12:20pm and M 10:20 – 11:15am
• 25% Lead Weekly Study Group – Scholars will organize and lead an hour-long weekly study group for group participants using material covered in the doctrinal course they are attending.
• 10% Attend Training – Scholars will meet at the beginning of the fall semester and periodically throughout the semester with Professor Six for training, guidance, and instruction.

• Any KU Law student who is in good standing and will be enrolled as a third-year law student during the fall 2026 semester is eligible to apply. Scholars will be selected, in part, on students’ demonstrated success in law school generally and in the particular course. Three students will be selected for the fall 2026 semester. Students selected for the fall semester will have the option to continue as Scholars in the Spring 2027 semester.

During the semester term of the appointment, the student hourly must be enrolled in no fewer than 6 credit hours. For summer periods the student hourly must: (1) have been enrolled in no less than 6 hours in the past spring semester or (2) be pre-enrolled in the upcoming fall semester in no less than 6 hours or (3) be enrolled in summer session or (4) be admitted to study in the upcoming fall semester.

Student Hourlies may be undergraduate or graduate students. (Exceptions granted for GRA/GTA/GA appointments DO NOT apply to Student Hourly appointments).

(1) Student employees are not eligible for remote work arrangements unless an exception is approved by the unit leadership and HR.

(2) This is an hourly/non-exempt position. A student employee cannot hold an hourly/non-exempt position and a salaried/exempt graduate or undergraduate position (GRA/GTA/GA/RUA/RGA) concurrently.

Application Process:
In addition to the online application, apply by submitting your resume and brief cover letter or sending an email to Prof. Six at bsix.

• The cover letter or email should explain:
  Why you are interested in being a Scholar and can include a description of any qualities, skills, or experience you would bring to the program.
• Indicate which class or classes you are interested in and available to lead a study group for. (Scholars will be hired to lead one study group associated with one particular doctrinal class, but applicants with some flexibility about which class they can attend are desirable.)
• Information about how to best reach you over the summer.

Primary Campus: University of Kansas Lawrence Campus