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.