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Pace Law School (Westchester, NY) Seeks Laterals

My home institution just posted a revised announcement, because our search has now broadened to include laterals:

The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, located just outside of New York City in White Plains, New York, seeks to hire one or more full-time law professors to join our faculty beginning in the 2023-24 academic year. We welcome candidates in any field, and have particular needs in Business Law, Family Law, and experiential learning. We seek candidates with valuable professional and/or scholarly experience, a distinguished academic record, and a record of, or great potential for, scholarly achievement and exemplary teaching. We welcome applications from both entry-level and lateral candidates.

Part of Pace University, a private university with campuses in Manhattan and Westchester County, the Elisabeth Haub School of Law is centrally located within the New York metropolitan area. Haub Law is home to the New York State Judicial Institute, seven clinics, an extensive externship program, and an engaged faculty, making the school a central part of the New York State and New York City legal communities. Haub Law is also home to the nation’s #1 ranked environmental law program as well as top-ranked dispute resolution and trial advocacy programs.

Haub Law is committed to achieving equal opportunity in all aspects of University life, increasing the diversity of the campus community, and creating a more just, equitable, and inclusive institution. Candidates who have experience working with a diverse range of faculty, staff, and students, and who can contribute to a climate of inclusivity, are encouraged to identify their experiences in these areas.

Applications are encouraged from people of color, individuals of varied sexual and affectional orientations, individuals who are differently-abled, veterans of the armed forces or national service, and anyone whose background and experience will contribute to the diversity of the law school. Pace is committed to achieving completely equal opportunity in all aspects of University life.

Apply via this link: https://careers.pace.edu/postings/25675

The announcement mentions Business Law and Family Law, but the Appointments Committee is opening to hearing from candidates across fields. I'd be glad for more Tax colleagues, for sure!

Hiring Announcement: New England Law | Boston (Visiting Professor of Practice)

From an email message I received today:

New England Law | Boston is currently accepting applications for the position of Visiting Professor of Practice for the 2023-2024 academic year.

Visiting Professors of Practice will be expected to teach four courses in the academic year, at least one of which will be a core course; and to participate in all aspects of the New England Law community, in particular programs aimed at students’ experiential and professional development. Visiting Professors of Practice are expected to be in full-time residence at New England Law.

The law school is seeking applicants with significant post-graduate legal or closely related experience at a high level and strong potential for teaching. This year, the law school is particularly interested in applications from candidates with experience and interest in teaching in the areas of real property, commercial, family, administrative, health, ethics, trusts and estates, tax, compliance and intellectual property law. Visiting Professors of Practice are not expected to produce written scholarship while at the school as part of the position, but are encouraged to participate in the scholarly life of the law school and will be supported in their scholarly endeavors consistent with other academic positions at the school should they choose to do so.  Initial appointments are for one year, beginning August 1, 2023.  

Hiring Announcement: New England Law | Boston (Faculty Fellow)

From an email message I received today:

New England Law | Boston is currently accepting applications for the position of New England Law Faculty Fellow. The law school anticipates hiring multiple fellows for the 2023-2024 academic year. Fellows will teach three courses in the academic year, one or two of which will be core courses. Fellows will receive mentoring and guidance in teaching, research, and scholarship from New England Law faculty and participate in all aspects of the New England Law community. Fellows will receive research support, including research and travel funds. Fellows are expected to be in full-time residence during the fellowship.

New England Law is seeking applicants with at least three years of significant post-graduate legal experience and strong potential for teaching, research, and scholarship. This year, the law school is particularly interested in applications from candidates interested in teaching any of the traditional first-year doctrinal courses, as well as intellectual property, administrative law, health law, family law, ethics, tax and/or commercial law courses. Compensation for the fellowship is an annual salary of $75,000 and the New England Law employee benefits package.  Initial fellow appointments are for one year, beginning August 1, 2023.  New England Law expects that most fellows will serve for two years and participate in the law school hiring market during the second year of the fellowship.  New England Law permits fellows to apply for positions with the school after the first year of the fellowship, including on the tenure track, should they become available.

Texas Tech School of Law Seeks Visiting Con Law/Civil Rights Faculty

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Texas Tech University School of Law invites applications from exceptional individuals to fill a visiting faculty position for either the 2024 spring semester or the 2023-24 academic year (Requisition 32154BR/Visiting Professor). The Law School has curricular needs for Constitutional Law and Civil Rights Law. Candidates must be willing to teach both of these courses if applying for the Spring 2024 semester, and related courses for the Fall 2023 semester if applying for the entire academic year.

Applicants must possess a J.D. degree and have a commitment to or demonstrated record of exemplary teaching, scholarly distinction, and institutional or public service.  Experience working with diverse student populations and first-generation law students is highly desirable. Prior teaching experience, law practice experience, or service as a judicial clerk, is also preferred. Service to the School of Law and University is expected and may include relevant extracurricular activities. Although we recognize that external funding opportunities have traditionally been limited in legal academia, candidates who have strong records of scholarship supported by extramural funding or who have the proven capacity or clear potential to bring externally sponsored research to Texas Tech University are encouraged to apply.

Texas Tech University, located in Lubbock, Texas, is a state-supported National Research University with an enrollment that exceeds 40,000 students. In addition, Texas Tech University is a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI). The law school has approximately 431 students and 38 full-time faculty members. The law school is an integral part of the University and offers 10 dual-degree programs with other Texas Tech schools and colleges. The Lubbock metropolitan area is home to over 300,000 people, enjoys affordable housing, abundant sunshine, friendly people, and offers easy access to other parts of the country. For more information, visit our website at http://www.depts.ttu.edu/law.

 

Rumania, Rumania (Romania, Romania)

This classic Yiddish song was written by Aaron Lebedeff in the 1930s, and it has been a staple of klezmer music ever since. There is a 1947 recording of Lebedeff toward the bottom of this post.  But this is sort of a bait and switch, as I have also used this post as an opportunity to insert some unexpected Romanian rock music in between. There are five of them, but feel free to skip down to the rest of the Yiddish clips.

Hiring Announcement: South Texas College of Law Houston (VAP)

From an email message I received earlier today:

South Texas College of Law Houston (“STCLH”) invites applications for one or more Visiting Assistant Professor (“VAP”) positions for academic years 2023-25. The appointment as a VAP is designed as a two-year position, assuming satisfactory performance in the first year. There is a possibility for reappointment for a third year.

Our VAP program exists to help practitioners and others interested in legal teaching to develop their teaching skills and scholarship to transition to full-time academic positions. Members of minority groups and others whose backgrounds will contribute to the diversity of the faculty are especially encouraged to apply.

A VAP is eligible to teach any course offered by STCLH. The specific courses taught by a VAP are determined based on the interests and abilities of the VAP and the curricular needs of STCLH. Currently, our curricular needs include criminal law, criminal procedure, and LRW (legal research and writing). A VAP’s teaching load is normally two courses during one semester and one course during the other semester each academic year (i.e., a “2/1 load”).

Each VAP is assigned a faculty mentor who advises and assists the VAP in all aspects of teaching and scholarship to increase the VAP’s qualifications for being hired for a permanent position. VAPs are eligible and encouraged to attend and participate in faculty scholarship presentations and all other similar faculty events.

A VAP is eligible to be appointed to a permanent position on the STCLH faculty. The permanent hiring process for a VAP is the same as that for non-VAP candidates for permanent faculty positions.

Hiring Announcement: South Texas College of Law Houston (LRW)

From an email message I received earlier today:

South Texas College of Law Houston invites applications from both experienced and entry-level faculty for a full-time, tenure-track position teaching legal research and writing beginning in the 2023-24 academic year. Faculty teaching legal writing at South Texas College Houston are fully integrated tenure-track faculty members with the same benefits and scholarship and service requirements as doctrinal tenure-track professors. Legal writing faculty teach the required first-year legal writing course, which includes legal research, legal analysis, legal writing, and oral advocacy. Legal writing faculty develop assignments, meet with students individually as needed, and provide detailed feedback on students’ writing assignments. South Texas College of Law Houston has evening as well as daytime classes, so candidates should be available to teach in the evening during occasional semesters. We seek candidates with outstanding academic records who are passionate about legal writing and committed to both excellence in teaching and sustained scholarly achievement. Legal writing teaching experience is preferred but not required. Members of minority groups and others whose backgrounds will contribute to the diversity of the faculty are especially encouraged to apply.

Liberty University School of Law Seeks Faculty

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Liberty University School of Law invites applicants for a full-time associate professor in the residential Juris Doctor program.  The most competitive applicants will demonstrate a commitment to excellence in teaching and possess a strong Biblical worldview.  Additionally, faculty need to passionately support our mission to equip future leaders in law with a superior legal education in fidelity to the Christian faith expressed through the Holy Scriptures.  Liberty University School of Law is part of the broadest community in the world, namely the kingdom of God which encompasses every nation, ethnic group, and language. Accordingly, we welcome and encourage faculty candidates from across this diverse spectrum to apply.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Teach first-year, upper division required, and elective classes
• Engage in scholarship
• Mentor students
• Provide timely feedback in the form of assessments, grading, and other requested formats
• Follow guidelines, policies, and procedures as outlined in the faculty handbook

 

Northern Kentucky Law Seeks Academic Success and Bar Prep Directors

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NKU-Chase is looking to hire both a Director of Academic Success and Bar Preparation and an Assistant Director of Academic Success and Bar Preparation. 

Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase College of Law invites applications for the position of Director of Academic Success and Bar Preparation, with an anticipated start date of May 1, 2023.  This is a 12-month, full-time, non-tenure-track position, with an initial one-year appointment. The salary range for this position is $80,000 to $90,000 (plus benefits). 

The Director’s primary responsibility will be to help students develop the skills needed to reach their full academic potential for performance in law school and on the bar exam. Responsibilities include: (1) designing and implementing of academic support programs; (2) directing the law school’s bar exam preparation programs; and (3) teaching the law school’s academic support and bar preparation courses, along with other members of the Chase faculty. The Director will supervise and collaborate with of the Assistant Director of Academic Success and Bar Preparation. Candidates must be willing to provide academic support for students in the evening division. 

 

Hiring Announcement: Loyola University New Orleans College of Law

From a recent email:

Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, a Jesuit institution, invites applications for a clinic faculty position focused on family law. The Law Clinic advances a dual mission of providing experiential, live-client clinical experience for law students and outstanding legal representation to underserved clients and community partners. The Clinic is dedicated to fulfilling the Jesuit Mission of pursuing justice while educating persons for others by exposing students to critical legal needs in the community. Clinic faculty must have a demonstrated commitment to justice. The Clinic serves as a large, well-respected social justice law organization within New Orleans and around the country.

Loyola Clinical Programs currently include teaching in children’s rights, criminal defense, externships, family law, immigration, special education, and workplace justice.

The successful candidate must be eligible to practice law in Louisiana. The family law clinic faculty position is expected to collaborate with clinic law professors, students, staff attorneys, and staff in developing and maintaining outstanding work in all areas of instruction and practice including but not limited to: client selection, intake, and representation. All clinic faculty report to the Dean and the Law Clinic Director.

Illinois Urbana-Champaign College of Law Seeks Dean

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The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the premier public research university in the State of Illinois, invites nominations and applications for the position of Dean of the College of Law. The University of Illinois is a major land-grant university committed to excellence in research, teaching, public engagement, and international programs. We have a long tradition of shared governance and are committed to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion. The University seeks a visionary Dean dedicated to enhancing and strengthening the mission of the College and to furthering its commitment to excellence in research, teaching, outreach, and international programs.

As the chief academic and executive officer of the College, the Dean has primary responsibility for the faculty and academic professional staff development, budgetary oversight and planning, academic and curricular issues, fundraising, and facilities development.

The new Dean will be pivotal in positioning the College and University as national and international leaders in areas represented by the College. The Dean will provide visionary leadership that will position the College and the campus for continued innovation and success. The Dean will provide leadership for building and enhancing key partnership and collaborations with units across campus. The Dean will be a strong advocate and spokesperson for the College both on campus and with external partners and stakeholders, including alums. While enhancing the diversity of the College, the Dean will value the contributions of diverse faculty, staff, and students.

 

Taboo Trades Podcast: Marielle Gross on NFTs for Biobanking (with guest host Brian Frye)

This episode has two fabulous guests: Marielle Gross, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, and renaissance man, Brian Frye, the Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky.

 

 

Marielle provides clinical care at UPMC Altoona and her research focuses on the application of technology and elimination of bias as a means of promoting evidence-basis, equity and efficiency in women’s healthcare. Today, we’re discussing heny, Inc., a start up that Marielle founded that utilizes NFTs to allow breast cancer patients to remain connected to their biopsy results. When patients participate in research studies, their names and identifying features are taken off of their samples – in other words, they are deidentified. What this means is that if researchers find medically relevant information, they can’t pass that on to the patient. Nor can patients share in any of the profits that research on their tissue might generate. As we discuss in this episode, Marielle was inspired by the infamous Henrietta Lacks case to create a non-fungible NFT-like token that allows breast cancer patients to track and learn about research on their donated tumor and tissues.

 

That’s where Brian Frye comes in: he teaches courses on patent and intellectual property law, and has published widely about NFTs. Many of his articles are linked in the show notes. Brian is also a filmmaker. He produced the documentary Our Nixon (2013), which was broadcast by CNN and opened theatrically nationwide. His short films and videos have shown in the 2002 Whitney Biennial, the New York Film Festival, and the San Francisco International Film Festival, among other venues, and are in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art. If you don’t get enough of Brian in this episode, then make sure to listen to my earlier bonus episode: The Plagiarism Taboo with Brian Frye.

 

Further reading and listening:

 

Marielle S Gross, MD; Amelia J Hood, MA; Robert C Miller Jr, BA, Nonfungible Tokens as a Blockchain Solution to Ethical Challenges for the Secondary Use of Biospecimens: Viewpoint, JMIR Bioinform Biotech 2021;2(1):e29905) doi: 10.2196/29905; https://bioinform.jmir.org/2021/1/e29905

 

This Pitt professor’s startup applies NFTs to bioethics, Technical.ly, Sept. 13, 2022; https://technical.ly/startups/heny-nfts-bioethics-marielle-gross/

 

The Plagiarism Taboo with Brian Frye, https://www.buzzsprout.com/1227113/episodes/11050801

 

Frye, Brian L., NFTs & the Death of Art (April 19, 2021). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3829399 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3829399

 

Frye, Brian L., How to Sell NFTs Without Really Trying (September 25, 2021). 13 Harvard Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law 113 (2022), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3930430

 

Frye, Brian L., After Copyright: Pwning NFTs in a Clout Economy (November 25, 2021). 45 Colum. J.L.& Arts 341 (2022), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3971240 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3971240

 

Frye, Brian L., The Art of the Token (March 16, 2022). Stanford Journal of Blockchain Law & Policy, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4059574

 

Frye, Brian L., After Andy Warhol? (June 28, 2022). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4149015 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4149015

 

Ryan, Christopher and Frye, Brian L., Patents & Legal Expenditures (August 12, 2019). 51 U. Pac. L. Rev. 577-592 (2020), Roger Williams Univ. Legal Studies Paper No. 193, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3436410

 

Frye, Brian L. and Ryan, Christopher, Technology Transfer and the Public Good (November 3, 2018). Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer, Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3277721

 

Ryan, Christopher and Frye, Brian L., An Empirical Study of University Patent Activity (February 10, 2017). 7 NYU Journal of Intellectual Property & Entertainment Law 51-84 (2017)., Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2915243 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2915243

Drexel University Kline Law Seeks Associate Dean for Online/Non-JD Programs

Drexel University's Kline School of Law is seeking a new Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Online Education.  This individual will manage, and continue to strategically expand, the Law School’s online Master of Legal Studies, LL.M, and post-bac certificate programs and will strive to advance the Law School’s stake in the online learning space, while ensuring the delivery of a superior and accessible learning experience for the Law School’s online student population.  The law school's non-JD program is large and extensive, and it does not currently partner with an online program management company.  The law school creates, delivers and markets these programs exclusively using law school and university faculty and resources.  The Associate Dean will lead these efforts.

The law school prefers a candidate based in Philadelphia but is open to other candidates seeking a hybrid work engagement.  Interested candidates should apply ASAP.  Please direct any questions to Dean Dan Filler.

For further details, and to apply, go here

CFP: HODL and Horizons: How Technology is Changing the Legal Landscape

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Artificial Intelligence, Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), ChatGPT.  Over the last few years, the world has seen an exponential proliferation of technology across all industries. With new inventions comes new legal territory as our judicial system begins to determine the boundaries within which these new technologies must operate. How will NFTs work under data privacy and copyright law? What laws govern the Metaverse? How will law firms adapt to the changing work environment brought on by COVID, work automation, and hybrid-office demands? The Elon Law Review invites submissions for our Symposium exploring such legal developments involving tech and law.

The Fall 2023 Symposium will be held on Friday, September 22, 2023 with a reception the evening before on Thursday, September 21, 2023. The central topic of papers must revolve around technology and the law. An abstract of the scholarly paper to be presented should be submitted no later than Friday, March 24^th, 2023, to Chief Symposium Editor, KimberMarie Faircloth, at kfaircloth4@elon.edu. Please attach a resume or CV to your submission. Accepted proposals will be organized into symposium panels around the proposed themes. Final papers will be due by Friday, June 30^th, 2023, for both presentation at the Symposium and publication in the Symposium issue of the 2023 Elon Law Review.