From a recent email message:
The University of Richmond School of Law is seeking applicants for a full-time faculty member to teach business law courses, including transactional skills courses. The position will begin in the summer or fall of 2025. The full position description and FAQ is here -- https://law.richmond.edu/faculty/hiring.html.
Our new hire will teach one section of Business Associations (our foundational business law course), Mergers & Acquisitions, and two transactional skills courses. The skills courses will emphasize experiential learning, allowing students to work on assignments that resemble the type of work they will do in practice and to develop skills as legal and business advisors to their clients. Candidates must have several years of practice experience in business transactional law and a J.D. from a U.S. accredited law school.
This is a non-tenure track position that focuses on teaching and mentoring students during the nine-month academic year. Depending on experience, a successful candidate will be hired as an Assistant or Associate Professor of Law, Legal Practice and will be eligible for promotion and five-year presumptively renewable contracts upon promotion to Professor of Law, Legal Practice.
The University of Richmond is a private university located just a short drive from downtown Richmond, Virginia. Through its five schools and a wide array of campus programming, the University combines the best qualities of a small liberal arts college and a large university. The University of Richmond is committed to developing a diverse workforce and student body, and to modeling an inclusive campus community that values the expression of difference in ways that promote excellence in teaching, learning, personal development, and institutional success. Our academic community strongly encourages applications that are in keeping with this commitment. For more information on the School of Law, please visit https://law.richmond.edu/.
Applicants should send a cover letter and resume to Professor Jessica Erickson at [email protected]. We encourage applicants to include information in their cover letter about their own transactional practice experience, their experience with teaching and mentoring, their views on the skills and competencies that lawyers in transactional practices need, and their anticipated approach to course design, inclusive pedagogy, assessment, and feedback. The committee will begin considering applications in mid-February and will start conducting Zoom screening interviews shortly thereafter.
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