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Marquette Seeks Visitor

Our friends at Marquette pass along the following announcement:

Marquette University Law School invites applications for a one- or two-year visiting faculty position, to begin in the 2012-13 academic year. We are interested in candidates who can teach primarily in the Intellectual Property curriculum.  Candidates should have distinguished records of academic and professional achievement as well as the commitment to, and potential for, excellence in teaching and legal scholarship.  We welcome applications from all individuals whose backgrounds and experiences will enhance the diversity of our faculty.  Interested applicants should send a resume, together with a letter of interest, to Professor Chad Oldfather, Appointments Committee Chair (Chad.Oldfather@Marquette.edu).

 

Thomas Jefferson Law Seeks VAP's

More and more law schools seem to be seeking visiting assistant professors this year.  Here is another announcement, this time from TJSL:

THOMAS JEFFERSON SCHOOL OF LAW invites applications for visiting faculty positions in the 2012-13 academic year. We seek visitors for the fall and spring semesters to teach Torts, Contracts, Property, and Civil Procedure. Depending upon fit, the visits may be either a semester or a year. Entry-level and experienced applicants are welcome. Applicants should have a record of (or potential for) significant achievement as scholars and teachers. Members of minority groups and others whose backgrounds will contribute to the diversity of the faculty are especially encouraged to apply. Thomas Jefferson School of Law is an independent, fully ABA-approved, AALS member law school located in San Diego, California.

Applicants should e-mail a cover letter, resume, and other application materials to Alex Kreit, Faculty Appointments Committee, atakreit@tjsl.edu. Please put “Visiting Faculty Application,” followed by your name, in the e-mail subject line.

 

Updated 2012 Lateral Faculty Moves List

The new list, with all the additional moves I've managed to confirm, is here.

Boston University Law Seeks Health Law VAP

BU Law is seeking a visiting assistant professor specifically for their health law program.  You can get the details here. 

Mercer Law Seeks Visiting Professors

This just in:

Mercer University Law School in Macon, Georgia, is seeking applications for one and two-semester (full time) visitors during the 2012-13 academic year. Curricular needs include courses in civil procedure, administrative law, and statutory interpretation. Applicants with full-time law school teaching experience fitting the curricular needs are especially encouraged to apply. Along with a resume (PDF), an applicant should e-mail a single page cover letter (PDF) identifying the courses he or she is best prepared to teach. Applicants should e-mail Professor Stephen Johnson, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, at johnson_s@law.mercer.edu. 

Visiting Faculty List: 2012-2013 Edition

It's time for us to start putting together the faculty visitors list for next year.  To get the ball rolling, if anyone has news of visits for next year, please either post them in the comments below or email them to me (JDL14@case.edu) and I will set up the list and update it regularly.  Because it's so difficult to differentiate between VAPs, podium visits and look-see visits (and who knows how the heck to define a look-see visit in any event), I'll just keep the list simple and confine it to school being visited and home institution of relevant faculty.

Duquesne And Golden Gate Law Schools Seek Visitors

There two announcements just came across the transom:

Golden Gate University School of Law invites applications for a visiting position for the 2012-2013 academic year at the rank of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor or Professor. We are looking for an experienced teacher for our first year, two-semester, six-credit Civil Procedure courses. Golden Gate is a private university located in downtown San Francisco with a strong commitment to practical and clinical education and a diverse student body. All applicants should possess a strong academic record and be committed to outstanding teaching and scholarship. We especially welcome applications from women, members of minority groups, and others who will enhance and diversify our faculty. Contact: Rachel Van Cleave, Professor & Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Golden Gate University School of Law, 536 Mission St., San Francisco, CA 94105. rvancleave@ggu.edu

And

Duquesne University School of Law may have an opening for a visiting professor to teach Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure for one, or possibly both semesters, during the 2012-2013 academic year. We especially encourage applications from racial minorities, women, and others who would enrich the diversity of our academic community. Interested applicants should send a résumé, along with a letter of interest, to Faculty Recruitment Committee at lawrecruitment@duq.edu. Electronic submissions are preferred. Candidates are strongly discouraged from submitting an application by mail. Applications should be received by March 1, 2012.

 

 

Prawfsblawg Entry Level Law School Faculty Hiring List Starts Now

Here.

Dean Search Update: Brooklyn

About a week ago we posted on the four finalists for the Brooklyn deanship.  This article suggests that the current number is three.

Arizona State Seeks Tax VAP

From an email that I received this week:

The Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University is looking for a tax scholar for its Visiting Assistant Professor (VAP) program. The VAP program is designed for law school graduates who are planning to pursue a career as a legal academic. VAPs will be appointed for a one-year term that is renewable for an additional year, with the anticipation that the VAPs will participate in the Association of American Law Schools faculty recruitment process during the fall of their second year.

Interested Applicants should submit a cover letter, resume or curriculum vita, law school transcript, reference contact information, and an academic writing sample. Submit materials to Zachary Kramer, chair of the appointments committee, at Zachary.a.kramer@asu.edu.  Applicants can read about ASU’s VAP program at our website http://www.law.asu.edu/faculty/Faculty/VisitingAssistantProfessorProgram.aspx

 

Cleveland-Marshall Seeks Two Clinical Professors

Cleveland Marshall College of Law seeks applications for two  clinical professor positions to begin in the 2012-2013 academic year. The clinical professors will be non-tenure-track full-time members of the law faculty on 11-month contracts with full benefits and will be eligible for a long-term contract after five years.  CM  seeks to fill one position with a transactional lawyer and the other with an experienced litigator.

The complete posting, with full details, is here.

Campbell Seeks Visitor

Campbell Law School may hire a visitor to teach Sales (three credits) during Fall 2012 and Spring 2013.  In addition to Sales, the second course in the teaching package probably will include Business Organizations (three credits), Secured Transactions (three credits), Evidence (three credits), or Professional Responsibility (two credits).  Each of these five courses is taught each semester.

Interested candidates can send a c.v. to me (zinneckert@campbell.edu), along with information on preferred semester (or preference for both semesters) and the ideal course package.   Each course mentioned above is a required course, so teaching experience in each course to be taught is strongly preferred.

General information on the law school (located in Raleigh) is available here.

Villanova Law Seeks VAP's

The folks at Villanova Law are in the market for two visiting assistant professors for the 2012-13 school year.  A job announcement is here.

Dean Search Update: Brooklyn

The four finalists to become the next dean of Brooklyn Law School are Patton Boggs partner Nicholas Allard, Tulsa law dean Janet Levitt, former Cornell law dean and former Grinnell College president and current Washington University visiting law professor Russell Osgood, and Brooklyn law professor Lawrence Solan.

Handling Rejection

During this time of year, many faculty recruitment committees are charged with the unfortunate task of advising faculty hopefuls that they were not selected for the position. A recent article highlights feelings from the perspective of candidates and offers suggestions for improved rejection letters, but we seldom explore how this is handled by schools. Certainly, we all have friends and colleagues whom we've supported through this process, and we've provided an ear for them to vent about how long it took to hear anything, and heard (or personally experienced) the too-common examples of cryptic letters or e-mails informing candidates that the job went elsewhere. Some schools don't bother to acknowledge receipt of applications from candidates they're not interested in interviewing until the process has been completed. Law schools are charged with teaching students the importance of professionalism in all areas of practice, and this should extend to the dreaded notifications of rejections that they, themselves, send to applicants. Ideally, how should notifications of rejection be relayed? What steps can schools take to ensure this is handled appropriately -- and professionally?

Law School Lateral Hiring: Faculty Moves 2012

Third update - 2/12/12

The law school dean search situation is starting to firm up, so it's time to start tracking lateral moves again this year.  Historians may want to consult my lists from 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011. 

Each year I offer a few caveats.  This year, they are: a) the list is currently woefully incomplete; b) it will at times contain errors (which I will try to fix quickly), and c) I won't update the list frequently enough for some readers.   If you have information or corrections, please email me at thefacultylounge@gmail.com. 

American

Andrew Taslitz from Howard

Arizona

Derek Bambauer from Brooklyn

California - Davis

David Horton from Loyola-LA

California - Hastings

Scott Dodson from William & Mary

Jodi Short from Georgetown

Colorado

Jennifer Hendricks from Tennessee

DePaul

Michael Grynberg from Oklahoma City

Drexel

Dana Remus  from New Hampshire

Florida State

Garrick Pursley from Toledo

Courtney Cahill from Roger Williams

Hamline

Thaddeus Pope from Widener

Kate Kruse from UNLV

Harvard

Tomiko Brown-Nagin from Virginia

Indiana - Indianapolis

Nicholas Terry from St. Louis

Iowa

Robert Miller from Villanova

L. Song Richardson from American

Kansas

Corey Rayburn Yung from John Marshall (Chicago)

Houston

Jacqueline Lipton from Case Western Reserve

New Hampshire

Calvin Massey from Hastings

New York University

Adam Samaha from Chicago

Sujit Choudhry from Toronto

Northern Kentucky

Jon Garon from Hamline

Vanderbilt

Jim Rossi from Florida State

Wake Forest

Emily Meazell from Oklahoma

Washington & Lee

Brant Hellwig from South Carolina

West Virginia

Joshua Fershee from North Dakota

Kendra Huard Fershee from North Dakota

William & Mary

Jeffrey Bellin from SMU

Rutgers-Newark Hiring Announcement: Corporate Law

This semester, Rutgers-Newark is beginning an off-cycle faculty search:

Rutgers School of Law-Newark is seeking entry level and lateral faculty candidates for a tenure track corporate law position commencing July 1, 2012.  The School seeks candidates whose scholarship focuses on corporate governance, financial systems, corporate finance, securities regulation, or the Dodd-Frank financial reforms.  Interested candidates should contact Professor Gary Francione, chair of the appointments committee, by email at gfrancione@kinoy.rutgers.edu.

Lateral News: Dana Remus (Back To) Drexel

I'm very pleased to announce that my former colleague Dana Remus (formerly Dana Irwin) will be returning to Drexel University Earle Mack School of Law this fall as a tenured member of the faculty.  Professor Remus was an inaugural faculty member at Drexel.  In OT 2008, she clerked for Justice Alito and the next year moved back to her home state and joined the faculty at the University of New Hampshire.  She is currently visiting at Duke Law  and visited at St. Johns this past fall.  

Dean Search Update: St. Thomas (MN)

The University of St. Thomas School of Law (MN) has announced the membership of its search committee to replace outgoing law dean Thomas Mengler.  Details here.

Clearinghouse For Summer Teaching Positions

(This announcement is posted at the request of friend, and St. Thomas (FL) law professor, Katharine Van Tassel):

Although many law schools hire faculty members other than their own to teach summer school, both in the United States and to a lesser extent abroad, this has always been a haphazard process.  Given the success of sharing information about entry level teaching jobs over at Prawfs Blawg, establishing a general clearinghouse for law school summer teaching positions is likely to provide a great benefit for both law faculty and law schools across the country and the world. The Health Law Prof Blog has agreed to host the clearinghouse by posting all of the notices of teaching opportunities for the Summer of 2012.

Please share the following information in your announcement and send it for posting on the Health Law Profs Blog to either Jennifer Bard at jennifer.bard@ttu.edu or Katharine Van Tassel atkvantassel@stu.edu:

(a) the name of your school; (b) the name of the chair of your summer hiring committee and that person's contact information; (c) any particular subject areas in which your school is looking to hire; (d) the dates that the summer class(es) will be taught; and, (e) any other information you think might be relevant.