Academic Scholars – Shook Hardy & Bacon Student
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Education / Teaching
University Professor, Academic, Tutoring
Job Description & How to Apply Below
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 spring semester for 1L students ranked in the bottom of the class. The study group will be tied to the students’ Constitutional Law class but will also focus on learning and practicing effective study skills. We are looking for up to four students for the spring semester to lead study groups for students.
Benefits
- Scholars will be paid $15.50 an hour. Note that law students are not allowed to work more than 20 hours per week. Scholars generally work 6 to 10 hours each week.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Attend Constitutional Law – Scholars must attend one of the following classes:
- Professor Rubenstein’s class, which meets Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 10:20 a.m.
- 11:15 a.m. OR - Professor McAllister’s class, which meets Mondays from 9:15 a.m.
- 10:10 a.m. and Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays from 10:20 a.m.
- 11:15 a.m.
- Professor Rubenstein’s class, which meets Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 10:20 a.m.
- You must be available to attend all four hours of class each week.
- Lead Weekly Study Group – Scholars will organize and lead an hour-long weekly study group for group participants. Study groups will meet virtually.
- Attend Training – Scholars will meet at the beginning of the spring semester and periodically throughout the semester with the Director of Academic Resources 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 spring 2027 semester is eligible to apply. Scholars will be selected, in part, on students’ demonstrated success in Constitutional Law and in law school generally.
- Students must be available to attend all four hours of one of the following classes:
Professor Rubenstein’s Constitutional Law class or Professor McAllister’s Constitutional Law class.
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.
Primary Campus:- University of Kansas Lawrence Campus
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