The Faculty Lounge

Taboo Trades Podcast: Welcome to Season 5!

Welcome to season 5 everyone! I’m Kim Krawiec at the University of Virginia School of Law, and the host of the Taboo Trades podcast. In this episode, I welcome this year's student co-hosts: Anthony Freyre, Kimberly Garcia, Laura Habib, Olivia King, Alyssa Lawrence, Alyssa Marshall, Alexa Rothborth, Nia Saunders, Tanner Stewart, Cyrus Tafti, John Henry Vansant, and Lauren White

 

William Tell

The "William Tell Overture"is most famous as the theme song to The Lone Ranger, on radio, television, and film. But of course it is a serious classical composition, the four-part introduction to Gioachino Rossini's opera of the same name, which premiered in 1829. William Tell was a legendary (or perhaps mythic) crossbow marksman, who led Swiss resistance to Austrian tyranny in the early Fourteenth Century, paving the way for the independence of the Swiss Federation. If Tell was actually a real person -- which seems unlikely -- he might or might not have shot an apple off of his son's head, a feat said to have saved both of them from execution.

In addition to The Lone Ranger, the fourth part of the "Overture," called "The March of the Swiss Soldiers," was also the theme to a British series The Adventures of William Tell. 

Part Four of the "Overture" has been transcribed for individual musicians from Franz Liszt to Glen Campbell (with occasional parodies).

University of Denver College of Law Seeks Faculty

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The University of Denver Sturm College of Law seeks applications from entry-level and lateral candidates for full-time, tenure-track faculty positions at the rank of Assistant, Associate, or full Professor of Law. Although we welcome candidates across all subject matter areas and methodological perspectives, we are particularly interested in candidates capable of teaching Torts, Civil Procedure, or Tax, as well as candidates interested in clinical teaching through our Student Law Office. We seek candidates with J.D. degrees (or their equivalents), outstanding academic records, relevant professional experience, a commitment to inclusive pedagogy, and the capacity to make future outstanding contributions in the realms of scholarship, teaching, and public engagement. The University of Denver and the Sturm College of Law are committed to building a diverse and inclusive educational environment and seek candidates whose research, teaching, service, and professional experiences can contribute to advancing these important institutional commitments. 

A full advertisement and application is available at https://jobs.du.edu/en-us/job/497560/assistant-associate-professor-open-rank-torts-civil-procedure-and-tax . Please send a copy of your application and/or any questions you may have to Bernard Chao, chair of our Faculty Appointments Committee, at [email protected]. Interested candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible, before October 1. 

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.