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Florida A&M Law Seeks LRW Faculty

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Florida A&M University College of Law welcomes applications for appointment to the position of Instructor of Law to teach the College of Law’s Legal Research and Writing I, II, and Appellate Advocacy courses on a full-time basis at its Orlando, Florida, location starting in the 2025-2026 academic year. The Legal Research and Writing courses are a two-semester, six-credit, required first-year offering, and the Appellate Advocacy course is taught in the second year. The faculty member will be responsible for developing the course collaboratively with other instructors on our team. In addition to shared responsibility for course development, this role will be responsible for the direct instruction each semester of two sections, each having approximately 15-20 students. This position is a full-time non-tenure track faculty position. Ideally, applicants should have teaching experience at the law school level, academic records denoting excellence, and a demonstrated commitment to teaching and service. The Instructor’s primary responsibilities include teaching classes, preparing assignments, critiquing student assignments, meeting with students, and judging oral arguments. Instructors teach in both the day and evening programs, depending on curricular needs. Instructors attend faculty meetings and serve on faculty committees.

Located in beautiful and sunny downtown Orlando - one of the most highly sought venues in the southeastern United States - the College is housed in a 160,000 square foot, state-of-the-art facility. Strategically situated in the heart of Orlando's thriving downtown business community, the College of Law lies within walking distance of federal and state courts, major law firms, art galleries and important civic arenas. The College of Law has a current enrollment of more than 500 full and part-time students. The student body is one of the most diverse in the nation. The College of Law boasts a diverse faculty composed of thoughtful and productive scholars from nearly every walk of legal life, including diplomatic, military, and government service, large and small private law practice, international organizations, and the judiciary. Increasing the number of minority lawyers in Florida able to practice law upon passing the bar is central to the College's statutory mission.

 

Hiring Announcement: Belmont University College of Law (Director of Field Placements)

From a recent email message:

The Belmont University College of Law invites applications for a full-time faculty position to serve as the Director of Field Placements to begin in Fall of 2025. In consultation with the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, the candidate can choose to join the faculty as an Assistant Professor of Law on tenure track or as an Assistant Professor of Legal Practice. The Director of Field Placements will be responsible for supervising and managing students participating in field placements and summer externships at local, regional, and national sites as part of Belmont Law’s Experiential Learning Program. The Director will be responsible for applicable instruction and curriculum development, site partner relationships, as well as management of all other aspects of administering the program in compliance with ABA Standards. This position will be a twelve-month appointment.

The Belmont University College of Law encourages applications from people whose background, life experiences, and scholarly approaches would contribute to the diversity of our faculty, curriculum, and programs. Applicants must possess a J.D. or equivalent degree from an accredited U.S. law school and must demonstrate a commitment to excellence in teaching, a passion for experiential learning, and a drive to grow the program to new levels.  Belmont is an EOE/AA employer.  Belmont College of Law reserves the right to exercise a preference for those candidates who support the goals and missions of the University.

If interested, please submit a letter of interest and curriculum vitae to the Chair of the Faculty Recruitment Committee, Associate Dean Deborah Farringer, using the recruitment committee’s email address - [email protected].  If you have questions about the position or Belmont University, please contact Associate Dean Farringer at [email protected].

Belmont University is a private, Christian university focusing on academic excellence and is located in the heart of Nashville, one of the fastest growing and most culturally rich cities in the country.  Belmont is the second largest private university in Tennessee with approximately 9,000 students. Belmont students come from every state, more than 35 countries, and all faiths. The Belmont faculty is dedicated to teaching, service, and active engagement in scholarship.  Ranked 91^st among ABA-Accredited law schools by U.S. News and World Report, Belmont Law’s median LSAT/GPA for the 124 students who entered the law school in August 2023 were 160 and 3.77 (75th percentile: 162 and 3.91; 25th percentile: 157 and 3.56).  Belmont’s ultimate bar passage rate for 2018 and 2019 was 100%, one of only a few law schools in the country to have achieved a perfect pass rate in those years, and Belmont Law had the highest pass rate in the State of Tennessee in July of 2023.

 

Willamette College of Law Seeks Tenure Track Faculty

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Assistant Professor of Law (Tenure Track)

Willamette University College of Law anticipates hiring at least one full-time entry-level Tenure Track faculty member to begin in Fall 2025. We are open to all areas of expertise and are especially interested in individuals who can teach Torts, Professional Responsibility, Employment Law, Labor Law, ADR and Client Counseling, Environmental and Natural Resources Law, and Evidence. A commitment to experiential and simulation-based learning is a plus. Applicants must possess strong academic credentials, a commitment to scholarship, and the skills necessary to communicate their expertise to colleagues and their students. Willamette believes that a diverse and inclusive community is essential to achieving academic excellence; accordingly, we seek candidates with demonstrated potential for growth and success as teachers and scholars, and whose professional and student-centered work will further inclusivity and diversity at Willamette. 

Willamette University is a small, highly selective private university of 2500 students with campuses in Salem and Portland, Oregon. Its undergraduate and graduate programs include the College of Law, the College of Arts and Sciences, Atkinson Graduate School of Management, the School of Computing and Information Sciences, and the Pacific Northwest College of Art.  The College of Law is located on the University’s main Salem campus, across the street from the State Capitol, Supreme Court, and State administrative offices. We are especially interested in applicants who are excited to live in the Willamette Valley, Portland, Salem, or the Pacific Northwest region. 

Candidates should apply at the Willamette University Jobs page, https://willamette.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/willametteuniversityjobs

and by email to Professor Andrew Gilden, Chair of the Faculty Appointments Committee, at [email protected] with a cover letter, CV, research agenda, writing sample, statement regarding how you anticipate your work furthering inclusivity and diversity, and at least three references.

American Tax Policy Institute Symposium: Revealing and Addressing Gender Bias in Tax Law and Policy, Oct. 17-18, 2024

The American Tax Policy Institute is pleased to announce a Symposium on “Revealing and Addressing Hidden Gender Bias in Tax Law and Policy” to be held on October 17 and 18, 2024, in Washington, DC, at the offices of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.

This program will explore the intersections between and among gender, taxation, and public policy. The goal of the Symposium is to shine a spotlight on gender issues in taxation and to bring consideration of gender impacts into mainstream discussions surrounding the enactment and administration of tax law and policy. The scope of the Symposium is broad, focusing not only on gender issues in U.S. tax law but also on gender issues in the tax laws of other countries; it will consider all taxes, including income, consumption, transfer, wealth-related, or other national-level taxes, as well as subnational taxes.

Law & Society Feminist Legal Theory CRN Call for Participation

Feminist Legal Theory Collaborative Research Network

Deadline: Tuesday, October 7, 2024

The Feminist Legal Theory Collaborative Research Network (FLT CRN) warmly invites you to participate in its sponsored panels sat the upcoming Annual Meeting on Law & Society to be held on May 22-25, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. Information about the conference (including registration and planning your visit) is already available on LSA's website.

We are especially interested in papers/presentations/book discussions that bring a critical feminist lens to the conversations about how the law is used to create inequalities and insularities. Proposals should embrace the character of the conference and address from an intersectional perspective how the law separates and treats subjects differently by gendering them in multiple ways.

The following non-exhaustive list is intended to provide examples of topic areas, and not to limit scholarly and creative engagement of feminist legal theory within the conference themes:

• Present-day Inequalities Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism
• Consequences of Neoliberal Economic and Social Policies
• Health & Environmental Crises such as HIV/AIDS, Covid 19, Monkeypox, Climate Change, Natural Disasters
• Military, Police, and Other Pervasive Violence against Marginalized People
• Access to Justice & Legal Empowerment Issues & Approaches
• Inequalities related to Reproduction and Reproductive Technologies
• Immigration & Displacement
• LGTBQ+ Discrimination
• Unequal and Separate Treatment of Children
• Legal Education & Inequality
• Discrimination based on Marriage & Family Formation
• State Criminalizing Practices predicated on Gender
• Feminization of Poverty
• Perspectives on Exploitation & Resistance Movements
• Transnational/International/Comparative Feminist Critiques
• Feminism and Legal History

We especially welcome proposals that would permit us to collaborate with other CRNs and that are multidisciplinary in approach. We strongly encourage colleagues from the Global South, indigenous colleagues, and colleagues from various minority groups to submit proposals.

The Feminist Legal Theory CRN reviews all papers for suitability. We will accept papers that conform to the theme of our Call for Papers and our mission to foster an environment of inclusivity and respect within feminist legal theory. Our deadline is well before the LSA deadline for submission, so if your paper is not accepted by this CRN you will have ample time to submit to the general LSA call for submissions.

Hiring Announcement: University of Miami School of Law

From a recent email message:

UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW

Location: Miami, FL

Subjects: Labor Law, Employment Law, Health Law, Civil Procedure, International Law

Start Date: August 1, 2025

The University of Miami School of Law seeks entry-level or lateral candidates to join our vibrant community beginning in Fall 2025. We welcome applications from outstanding scholars in any area of focus who will add to the diversity of our faculty, contribute to the intellectual life of the school, enhance our teaching mission, and engage in meaningful service. Our subject-matter interests include, but are not limited to, Labor & Employment Law, Health Law, Civil Procedure, and International Law (especially trade and international business).

Interested candidates should apply online for the position via the University of Miami employment portal at https://umiami.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMFaculty/ and submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, the names of three references, and teaching evaluations (if available) in PDF format. Questions can be directed to Professor John Newman, Chair, Faculty Appointments Committee, at [email protected]

The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Females, Minorities, Protected Veterans, and Individuals with Disabilities are encouraged to apply. Applicants and employees are protected from screening based on certain categories protected by Federal law.

Job Status: Full time

Employee Type: Faculty

Villanova Law seeks Anti-Poverty Fellow

The Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law seeks a visionary thinker, scholar, and educator with the diverse skills, background, and interests necessary to advance creative and innovative ways to solve the problem of poverty in the United States. The successful candidate will lead the Initiative to End Poverty and Inequality at Villanova University, an interdisciplinary enterprise housed in the Charles Widger School of Law. The Initiative to End Poverty and Inequality will support programmatic initiatives to generate concrete ideas and policy solutions to address the problem of poverty, including development of an annual symposium. The Initiative will approach the causes and effects of poverty with an interdisciplinary, evidence-based approach that prioritizes efforts that will yield concrete results and maximum advancement toward eliminating poverty.

More details on this position are available here: https://jobs.villanova.edu/postings/29601. Applications should be submitted in the same place, though questions may be directed to Vice Dean Michael Risch (risch at law.villanova.edu).

Villanova is a Catholic university sponsored by the Augustinian order. Diversity and inclusion have been and will continue to be an integral component of Villanova University's mission. The University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and seeks candidates who understand, respect and can contribute to the University's mission and values.

I Hear You Knockin' on Wood

In 1966, Eddie Floyd and Steve Cropper wrote "Knock on Wood" on a stormy night in Memphis at the Lorraine Motel, about two years before Martin Luther King would be assassinated in the same location.  At the time, the Lorraine was one of the few places in Memphis where Black and white people could meet together, or where Black people could stay in modern commercial accommodations. Over the years, virtually all of the great Stax acts stayed there, including Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, the Staple Singers, Otis Redding, and others. According to Steve Cropper, the thunderstorm gave them the idea for the refrain, "like thunder, lightning, the way you love me is frightening." The song was a hit for Eddie Floyd and has been covered many times over fifty years. Other "knockin'" songs on this post include Fats Domino's "I Hear You Knocking" and Little Richard's "Keep a' Knocking" (covering an earlier recording by Lil Hardin, as explained below).

CFP: Islamic and Jewish Law in the Modern Economy

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Islamic and Jewish Law in the Modern Economy”
Islamic and Jewish Legal Scholars Symposium May 5 & 6, 2025
University of Villanova School of Law, Villanova, Pennsylvania

Description: The Islamic and Jewish Legal Scholars Symposium invites submission of paper abstracts for a workshop hosted at Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law, May 5 & 6, 2025.

The symposium will explore the integration of pre-modern religious law and norms into the modern financial economy. We anticipate that papers will explore the tools used by religious traditions to construct their own commercial law in ways that both align with and diverge from modern state law. Comparative inquiries between Islamic and Jewish law are encouraged, although comparisons to other legal traditions and/or works related to one religious legal tradition are welcome.

Papers are welcome from a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to legal studies, including law, sociology, anthropology, politics, and history, from scholars based in law schools and other academic departments.

This symposium is organized by the Islamic and Jewish Legal Scholars Symposium, whose leadership includes Samy Ayoub (UT Austin), Michael Broyde (Emory University), Chaim Saiman (Villanova University), and Rabea Benhalim (University of Colorado).

Applying: Paper abstracts of no more than 500 words should be sent to Chaim Saiman ([email protected]) no later than Friday, January 31, 2025. Submissions are welcome from academics at all levels: tenured, pre-tenure, non-tenure track, fellows, visiting assistant professors, adjunct professors, graduate students, etc.

Funding: Meals and lodging will be provided for all attendees. Limited, additional travel funds may also be available.

CFP: AALS Clinical Conference 2025 Seeks Proposals

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The Planning Committee for the 2025 AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education welcomes proposals for programs in the following categories:

• Concurrent Sessions (60 minutes)
• Lightning Sessions (30 minutes)
• Poster Presentations
• Workshops

The dates of the 2025 Conference on Clinical Legal Education coincide with the 10 year anniversary of the police killing of Freddie Gray and the uprising in the streets of Baltimore that followed. In the intervening 10 years, the Baltimore uprising, the Black Lives Matter movement, and other movements and organizations fiercely, beautifully, and lovingly led the way toward necessary structural changes, including in the legal academy with the implementation of ABA Standard 303. Those same 10 years, however, saw threats to democracy and the rule of law worldwide, a climate increasingly unstable, uncertainty spurred by the emergence of generative AI across industries and education, lasting changes and barriers to the justice system and the profession as the result of COVID-19, the ascendence of a politicized and ethically compromised Supreme Court, and so many more. The clinical legal education community has historically been the first to advocate for changes to legal education, and this conference has served as the incubator for some of those changes. Now, with legal education, our profession, and our society facing pressures from so many external factors, it is more important than ever to come together and share our insights and ideas.

 

New Mexico Law Seeks Multiple Faculty

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Business and Commercial Law

The University of New Mexico ("UNM") School of Law invites applications for a faculty position in the areas of business associations, contracts, and other business and commercial law topics. Additional courses could include contract drafting, business planning, various intellectual property classes, and commercial law courses such as the UCC.  This faculty position is a full-time tenured or tenure-track position starting in Fall 2025. Entry-level and experienced teachers are encouraged to apply.

Offering a J.D. degree, the UNM School of Law is nationally recognized for innovative classes that combine law practice skills training with doctrinal instruction and a 10:1 student-to-faculty ratio. Our faculty is one of the most ethnically and racially diverse faculties in the country and our student body is similarly diverse.

We seek candidates with scholarly distinction or promise as well as a commitment to excellence in teaching.

We value candidates from varied backgrounds and perspectives in order to enhance student learning and the faculty’s mission of research, teaching, service, and community engagement in New Mexico, the United States, and the world. Women, underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities, individuals with disabilities, people who attended law school later in their careers, people from rural origins, first‐generation college graduates, veterans, and groups historically marginalized in American life are especially encouraged to apply.

All applicants should submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and list of references to the University of New Mexico Jobs website at this link: https://unm.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/18/home/requisition/30880?c=unm.

The general jobs website is https://unmjobs.unm.edu/. For best consideration, please apply by September 27, 2024. For more information, please contact:

Nathalie Martin, Chair, Faculty Appointments Committee - [email protected]

 

Call For Papers: Corporate and Securities Law (for Law and Society Conference)

From Prof J.S. Nelson (Pitt Law):
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Dear Faculty Lounge readers,

 
This is a call to participate in Law & Society CRN 46's programming. CRN 46 broadly covers Corporate and Securities Law in Society.

 

The 2025 Law & Society Association (LSA) Annual Meeting is scheduled for Chicago, Illinois, USA from May 22-25, 2025. The meeting will be hosted at the Hyatt Regency. This year’s sessions will take place in-person.

 

If you are a member of our CRN and on our CRN email list, we will send you several reminders of deadlines as they approach from our CRN's email list. Of course, if you would like to be removed from these emails at any point, simply let us know.

 

If you have been forwarded this message, are not on our direct CRN 46 mailing list and want to be, please fill out your information here.

 

Meanwhile, the 2025 LSA Call-for-Participation submission window is now open. 

 

The deadline for our Call for Submissions is October 15, 2024 at 5:00 p.m. ET (USA and Canada).

 

There are three types of sessions: (1) Paper Presentations; (2) Author-Meets-Reader Sessions; and (3) Roundtable Sessions.  Please note that you are limited to participating only once at LSA as a paper presenter, book author, or roundtable participant (full rules here). 

 

Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions. J.S. happens to be organizing both our LSA CRN and the ComplianceNet2025 conference in NYC that will be held the end of the same week as LSA so that international scholars can travel easily from one conference to another. If you are writing, please include "LSA CRN 46" in the title of your email.

 

We look forward to seeing you next summer! 

 

Best,

 

J.S. and Geeyoung  

 

Paper Presentations 

If you would like to present a paper (either completed or in progress) as part of one of our CRN’s paper sessions, please:  

 

(1) By October 15, 2024 at the very latest, submit your paper title and abstract directly to LSA via this link.

• Choose "Individual Paper” in the "Submission Type" drop down menu. 
• Paste your abstract in the "Proposal" portion of the submission form.  Your abstract must be under 2000 characters. 
• [VERY IMPORTANT] Select CRN 46 where prompted.
   

(2) Also by October 15, 2024, please send an email to [email protected] or [email protected] with your paper title and abstract, notifying us that you have submitted your paper directly to LSA. This will help us track your submission and make sure we can find your paper if it doesn’t appear on the list of CRN 46 papers provided by LSA.

 

(3) Please only submit a paper if you plan to the conference. When paper authors drop out post-submission, it can put the entire panel at risk of cancellation. 

 

Chair/Discussant Once we have a list of paper presentations associated with CRN 46, we will organize those presentations into paper sessions. Each paper session will need a Chair and a Discussant (who can be the same person). If you would be willing to serve in one or both of those roles, please let us know by October 15, 2024.

 

Author-Meets-Reader Sessions 

If you have a book (excepting edited volumes or textbooks) that has been, or will be, published in 2024, please consider whether you’d like to arrange an “Author-Meets-Reader” Session around your book!  Here is how LSA describes AMR Sessions: 

 

“An Author-Meets-Reader (AMR) is a session in which discussion is focused on one to three recently published scholarly books. The session must include the author(s) of the book, three designated “readers” per book (as applicable) who provide comments, and a session chair (who may be one of the readers). AMR panels are limited to books published in the year prior to the LSA Annual Meeting. For the 2025 Meeting, the books must have a publication date in 2024.”

 

If you are interested in organizing an AMR Session, please contact us by October 1, 2024, and we will work together to submit an AMR Session as part of the CRN. 

 

Roundtable Sessions 

If you would like to propose a theme for a Roundtable Session, please contact us by October 1, 2024, and we will work together to submit a Roundtable Session as part of the CRN. Here is how LSA describes Roundtable Sessions: 

 

“A Roundtable is a discussion-centered session that is organized around a common theme and does not have papers presented. Roundtables are the most flexible format offered at the meeting. Participants might organize debates, visual and musical performances, workshops, films, and other innovative formats.”

 

J.S. Nelson

Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh School of Law

Email: [email protected]

Hiring Announcement: University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, William S. Richardson School of Law

From a recent email message:

The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, William S. Richardson School of Law seeks to fill several faculty positions to begin in August 2025. We are hiring for an Assistant Professor (F3-9) or Associate Professor (F4-9) eligible for tenure upon appointment with expertise in Constitutional Law; an Assistant Professor (F3-9) with expertise in Criminal Law; and an Assistant Professor (F3-9) with expertise in Environmental Law. We welcome candidates who, in addition to one of those three fields, have expertise in Asian Legal Studies, Business Law, Family Law, Health Law, Native Hawaiian Law, Pacific Island Legal Systems, or Professional Responsibility.

We encourage candidates who are members of groups underrepresented in the legal academy to apply. Rank and salary commensurate with experience. Separate announcements of two additional positions will be forthcoming.

The Law School is located in Mānoa on the flagship campus of the University of Hawai‘i system. It reflects and embraces Hawai‘i’s diversity, location, and values, and recognizes its special responsibility to Hawai‘i and the Pacific region. The successful candidates will be expected to contribute to furthering UH Mānoa’s mission as a community-serving university committed to being a Native Hawaiian place of learning. The successful candidates should also be willing to contribute to and support the Law School’s new online JD program.