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Hiring Announcement: University of Oregon School of Law

From a recent email message:

The University of Oregon School of Law invites applications from entry-level and lateral candidates for two tenure-track positions at the rank of either assistant or associate professor:

· Business & Sports Law: https://careers.uoregon.edu/cw/en-us/job/533942

· Intellectual Property / Law & Technology: https://careers.uoregon.edu/cw/en-us/job/533943

Each position will start August 2025. Candidates of all viewpoints and employing any research methodology or approach are welcome to apply.

To apply for either position, applicants should submit (1) a letter of interest; (2) a current resume or CV; (3) a description of their research agenda; (4) a statement addressing their potential contribution(s) to diversity, equity and inclusion (see next paragraph); and (5) a list of references. To ensure consideration, application materials should be submitted by August 21, 2024, although applications will be accepted until the positions are filled.

As part of the application process, applicants must submit a statement about promoting equity, inclusion, and diversity in their professional careers. In evaluating such statements, the law school will consider an applicant’s awareness of inequities and challenges faced by students and faculty belonging to underrepresented or disadvantaged groups; track record (commensurate with career stage) of activities that reduce barriers in education or research for students and faculty belonging to underrepresented or disadvantaged groups; vision and plans for how their work will continue to contribute to the University of Oregon’s mission to serve the needs of our demographically and ideologically diverse state and student population and create an inclusive campus; and other relevant factors.

Hiring Announcement: UMKC School of Law (lawyering skills)

From a recent email message:

UMKC is the urban law school of the University of Missouri System and is located on a beautifully landscaped campus in the Country Club Plaza area of Kansas City, Missouri, a vibrant metropolitan area of more than two million people. UMKC School of Law offers courses leading to J.D., M.L.S., or LL.M. degrees for approximately 400 students. The law school benefits from a dedicated and diverse faculty and staff, a strong university with opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration, and exceptional community and alumni support. The law school includes a state-of-the-art teaching courtroom and an appellate courtroom. For more information, please visit our website: https://law.umkc.edu/

Job Description

The UMKC School of Law is hiring a Lawyering Skills faculty member at the rank of Assistant Clinical Professor or Associate Clinical Professor. The position is to (1) teach the first year Lawyering Skills sequence, along with one upper-level course based on the needs of the school and on the faculty member’s area of expertise, and (2) assist in our nationally recognized bar preparation program. The faculty member will teach and work with between 24-48 students per semester in the Lawyering Skills sections. Lawyering Skills faculty members have voting rights in faculty meetings.

This is a ranked, non-tenure track 9-month faculty appointment to begin in August 2025. There is opportunity for ranked promotion with multi-year contracts.

Our Legal Writing program is nationally recognized for excellence, rated in the top 20 schools in the US News & World Report ranking. The program is an autonomous but highly collaborative program. Faculty in the program work together to design problems, train and supervise teaching assistants, and develop curricula and pedagogies. We are looking for applicants who can serve our diverse student body, which includes students from multifarious cultures and underserved backgrounds and communities: https://law.umkc.edu/docs/lawyering-skills.pdf

Hiring Announcement: UMKC School of Law (business law and related fields)

From a recent email message:

The UMKC School of Law seeks to hire for an entry level or lateral tenure-track or tenured faculty position in Business Law and related fields, which will begin in Fall 2025. The School of Law is looking for faculty members with a strong commitment to educating lawyers for the twenty-first century and those who will actively participate in our collegial, collaborative community. We encourage applications from candidates who would add diversity to our faculty.

UMKC offers a wide range of traditional Business Law courses and also several projects-based and experiential learning courses and programs, some of which are interdisciplinary and involve interactions with departments in UMKC’s Henry W. Bloch School of Management and other academic units. As part of the J.D. program, students may earn a Business and Entrepreneurial Law Emphasis. Additionally, students with potential interest in business-related fields are presented with a variety of skills training options through a team-taught Transactional Lawyering Skills Lab course and other simulation courses, an Entrepreneurial Legal Services Clinic, an Intellectual Property Clinic, and competitions, internships, externships, and supervised independent study opportunities.

One component of the faculty position would be teaching a Business Organizations course. Beyond that, there is flexibility for candidates with business-oriented research and teaching interests to fashion a teaching package that might include a combination of courses from such subjects as Antitrust Law, Business Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions, Securities Regulation, Taxation of Corporations, co-teaching in the Transactional Lawyering Skills Lab course; and other courses such as Health Care Law or Business Planning where knowledge of organizational structures strongly overlaps. The teaching package might also include participation in one of our innovative projects-based interdisciplinary entrepreneurship courses operated out of the Law School-led Center for Law, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, which connects faculty, staff, and students from multiple UMKC academic units and other programs with projects and in many cases collaborators from other institutions and organizations. Many of the Law School’s entrepreneurship endeavors have been supported by funding from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. We also welcome the inclusion of one or more other courses that offer critical perspectives on business law, which the candidate might propose to enrich the Law School’s business curriculum.

Hiring Announcement: University of Mississippi School of Law

From a recent email message:

The University of Mississippi School of Law invites applications for an Assistant Professor of Practice whose primary responsibility will be directing the law school's Academic Success Program.

Job Responsibilities: 
•    Develops and administers the Academic Success Program which includes teaching courses, organizing and presenting workshops, designing programming for students, and analyzing and reporting on the effectiveness of the program.  The Academic Success Program includes a summer component for incoming academically at-risk students.
•    Coordinates closely with the Dean of Students, Assistant Professor of Practice for Bar Exam Support, and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs to develop programming and individual support for academic success and bar exam passage.
•    Directs the Advising Program, solicits faculty members participation, and initiates follow-up with students and participating faculty during the academic year.
•    Meets individually and regularly with students to develop and monitor academic recovery plans for individual students and to provide individualized instruction.
•    Promotes strategies to address potential barriers to academic success in diverse populations, including first-generation students, minority groups, and those with identified learning challenges.
•    This description identifies the key responsibilities and expectations for the position.  But it is not intended to encompass all the specific job-related tasks that may be identified in the future.
 

For additional information, please click here.

Call for Applications: ​​Clifford Scholar-in-Residence (Autumn 2024)

In Autumn 2024, DePaul College of Law will host a rising star in civil justice as the 5th annual Clifford Scholar-in-Residence. This program complements the Clifford Symposium, which has successfully brought together leading civil justice scholars for almost 30 years to share ideas and publish their work. In some years, the Clifford Symposium has highlighted “rising stars,” who have presented their work with in-depth commentary from senior scholars. 

​The Clifford Scholar-in-Residence program will continue the tradition of developing up-and-coming civil justice scholars. Past scholars include Zachary Clopton (Northwestern), Maria Glover (Georgetown), Pamela Bookman (Fordham) and Seth Katsuya Endo (Seattle). The 2024 Clifford Scholar will be selected by a committee of leading civil justice professors, led by Professor Stephan Landsman (DePaul and Brooklyn).

DePaul College of Law will host the Clifford Scholar for 1-2 days during Autumn 2024. The Scholar will participate in classes and faculty activities commensurate with their area(s) of expertise, culminating in a presentation of interest to the DePaul community. 

Preference will be given to full-time, tenure-track or tenured law professors 5-10 years into their scholarly career with the potential to become a nationally recognized scholar in civil justice.

An honorarium of $10,000 will be paid to the selected scholar-in-residence, in addition to reimbursement of travel expenses.  

To apply, please submit the following:

• CV

• Cover letter describing:

• Your interest in civil justice

• Your most recent scholarly work

• The proposed topic for your public presentation

Please submit these materials no later than Monday, August 19, 2024, to [email protected].

More info here.

 

Penn Wharton Legal Studies and Business Ethics Dept Seeks Faculty

This just in:

The Legal Studies and Business Ethics Department of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, is seeking applicants for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position. We welcome candidates working in any business-relevant area of law and/or ethics, but we are particularly interested in the following areas:

• Technology / artificial intelligence
• Corporate law / governance / purpose / responsibility
• Law and ethics of markets (antitrust / bankruptcy / consumer law)
• Inequality and discrimination
• Bioethics / health law
• Energy / environment / climate

The appointment is expected to begin July 1, 2025. Information about the Legal Studies and Business Ethics Department and the research expertise of its current faculty may be found at: https://lgst.wharton.upenn.edu.

 

Hiring Announcement: CUNY School of Law

From a recent email message:

The City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law seeks several qualified (unitary) tenure track candidates across a broad curricular spectrum, including one faculty position to teach Torts and other core doctrinal courses, one faculty position in CUNY Law’s vaunted Skills (academic success) program, and up to three faculty positions in CUNY Law’s nationally ranked clinical program, in areas including Health Law, Environmental Justice, Civil Rights, Immigration Law, National Security, and Workers’ Rights. Clinic faculty appointments will be in one of CUNY Law’s existing clinics: https://www.law.cuny.edu/academics/clinical-programs/. The Committee will consider lateral appointments at all levels for qualified candidates. Appointments are to begin no later than Fall 2025.

CUNY School of Law is a national leader in progressive legal education, being top-ranked for public interest law and for clinical programs. CUNY is also the most diverse law school in the nation and has both a three-year full-time day program and a four-year part-time evening program.