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| Contact's full name: | Conrad Sturm |
| Title: | Director, Legal Writing and Advocacy Skills Program |
| Organization: | Qatar University College of Law |
| | P.O. Box 2713 |
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| | Doha |
| | qa
| | Phone: | +974 4403 5297 |
| Fax: | |
| Email: | conrad.sturm@qu.edu.qa |
| Website: | www.qu.edu.qa/law |
| Description: | Qatar University seeks two qualified candidates to join our team and teach legal writing and/or advocacy skills courses in the College of Law's prestigious LL.B. program. In addition to teaching these courses, the selected applicants will support the Legal Writing and Advocacy Skills Program by coaching moot court teams and/or leading other extra-curricular endeavors.
In only its second year, the Legal Writing and Advocacy Skills Program has brought legal writing, advocacy, and research skills that are foundational to common law systems to the mixed Qatari civil and common law system. In 2011, four American educated professors with diverse teaching and legal backgrounds joined the program.
Required qualifications for the position include a J.D. and at least two years of teaching experience, preferably in legal writing and/or advocacy skills. Practice and/or clerkship experience is recommended. Preference will be given to candidates who show great potential for development and service to the law school and who are willing to commit to the College of Law for a sustained period.
Benefits include:
- very competitive tax-free salary (no income tax or sales tax);
- potential yearly bonus and salary increase;
- furnished accommodation or housing allowance;
- annual round-trip air tickets for the faculty member and his or her dependents;
- health insurance for the faculty member and dependents;
- educational allowance for children (QR 45,000 per child for up to three children);
- annual two month summer leave, mid-year, and mid-semester breaks in accordance with the university's H.R. policies and calendar;
- generous conference travel support; and
- end-of-contract gratuity.
On the Arabian Gulf, Qatar has a rapidly growing economy, a richly diverse national and expatriate community, and ambitious development goals. Qatar is a wealthy, stable, and safe country with a very progressive and international outlook. In recent times, Qatar has played a prominent role in hosting negotiations and mediating regional disputes. Qatar has hosted various international events including the Doha Development Round of World Trade Organization negotiations, the 20th World Petroleum Congress (the first in the region), and the 2006 Asian Games. It looks forward to hosting the 2022 FIFA World Cup; another first for the region.
Located in the capital city of Doha, Qatar University is the oldest and most popular university in Qatar. It has considerable teaching and research expertise with students from over 52 nations. Moreover, it is undergoing unprecedented expansion as Qatar rapidly develops.
The College of Law, the country's sole law school, has a record of academic excellence and scholarly influence, and it aspires to be the premier law school in the region. It is committed to excellence in legal education in accordance with international standards. Over half its courses are in English, including its legal writing and advocacy skills courses, and it prepares students for success in the complex, competitive, and ever-changing worlds of law practice, business, public service, and teaching.
As the College of Law is seeking to fill these positions for the upcoming Fall 2012 academic year, we invite you to submit your application as soon as possible. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis, but the Faculty Recruitment Committee will meet to review all applications on February 15, 2012, and April 2, 2012. The positions will remain open until filled. Please direct a cover letter and your curriculum vitae to Conrad Sturm at the email address below. If available, recent teaching evaluations, transcripts, and reference letters will also be helpful.
Conrad Sturm
Director, Legal Writing and Advocacy Skills Program
Qatar University College of Law
Email: conrad.sturm@qu.edu.qa
Please feel free to visit the law school website at www.qu.edu.qa/law and the Human Resources homepage at www.qu.edu.qa
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| Position Type: | long-term |
| Faculty Vote: | Yes |
| Salary: | 80-89k tax free |
Students
Per Semester: | <40 |
| Submission Deadline: | 2012-04-02 |
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| Contact's full name: | Annecoos Wiersema |
| Title: | Chair, Appointments Committee |
| Organization: | University of Denver Sturm College of Law |
| | 2255 E. Evans Ave. |
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| | Denver CO 80208 |
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| | Phone: | 303-871-6525 |
| Fax: | |
| Email: | awiersema@law.du.edu |
| Website: | www.dujobs.org |
| Description: | The University of Denver Sturm College of Law anticipates hiring two full-time lecturer positions to begin in the 2012-2013 academic year. The positions will be in its first-year legal research and writing program called Lawyering Process. Lawyering Process is a required first-year, 2-semester course that uses small classes to teach legal research and writing, document drafting, and professional practice skills. These are 12 month positions effective July 1, 2012. At least two years of legal practice experience is required, and prior teaching experience is preferred.
If you are interested in applying, please visit the DU website: www.dujobs.org. Please feel free to contact Annecoos Wiersema, Chair, Appointments Committee (awiersema@law.du.edu) with any questions.
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| Position Type: | long-term |
| Faculty Vote: | Yes |
| Salary: | 60-69k |
Students
Per Semester: | 41-45 |
| Submission Deadline: | 2012-02-28 |
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| Contact's full name: | Ruth C. Vance |
| Title: | Professor of Law |
| Organization: | Valparaiso University School of Law |
| | 656 S. Greenwich St. |
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| | Valparaiso IN 46383 |
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| | Phone: | 219-465-7862 |
| Fax: | 219-465-7872 |
| Email: | Ruth.Vance@valpo.edu |
| Website: | |
| Description: | VALPARAISO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW is seeking a full-time legal writing professor for a long-term affiliation with the school of law through renewable contracts or tenure track subject to an applicant's experience and credentials. Valparaiso students complete a comprehensive three-year program of legal writing. The person hired will teach the first-year legal writing course, which is comprised of a two-credit course each semester. Librarians teach an additional two credits of legal research over the course of the first year. Legal writing professors are supported by student teaching assistants who work with students in small groups. This position brings with it full faculty benefits, including generous support for faculty travel, research grants for publication, and the like.
Valparaiso University is one of the highest ranked universities of its type in the region and is located in a charming college town near the shores of Lake Michigan; it is fifty miles from downtown Chicago. The city has excellent schools and affordable housing. The university is an equal opportunity employer; minorities and women are encouraged to apply. Any questions about the legal writing program may be directed to Professor Ruth C. Vance at (219) 465-7862 or ruth.vance@valpo.edu.
If you are interested in the position, please send a cover letter and c.v. to Professor Ruth C. Vance c/o Melissa Mundt, Associate Director of Academic Services, at Valparaiso University School of Law, 656 Greenwich Street, Valparaiso, Indiana 46383.
Research & Writing Faculty Teaching Position
Job Posting Disclosure Form
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At least one option must be checked for each of the four items below; but all options for any item may not be checked to avoid giving a specific answer, or in an effort to avoid specifying a legitimate range. Space is provided for additional textual explanations after each item. The completed form must appear within the body of an E-mail posting about a posting, and the completed form must be included within the text of any file attachment.
1. The position advertised:
__ a. is a tenure-track appointment.
_x_ b. may lead to successive long-term contracts of five or more years.
__ c. may lead only to successive short-term contracts of one to four years.
__ d. has an upper-limit on the number of years a teacher may be appointed.
__ e. is part of a fellowship program for one or two years.
__ f. is a part-time appointment, or a year-to-year adjunct appointment.
Additional information about job security or terms of employment, any applicable
term limits, and whether the position complies with ABA Standard 405(c):
A tenure track appointment is possible depending on the qualifications and experience of the candidate. Valparaiso's legal writing faculty is currently made up of tenured, tenure-track, long-term contract, and visiting professors.
2. The professor hired:
__x a. will be permitted to vote in faculty meetings.
__ b. will not be permitted to vote in faculty meetings.
Additional information about the extent of the professor's voting rights:
The faculty member will be able to vote in all matters except promotion and tenure decisions.
3. The school anticipates paying an annual academic year base salary in the range checked below. (A base salary does not include stipends for coaching moot court teams, teaching other courses, or teaching in summer school; a base salary does not include conference travel or other professional development funds.)
___ over $120,000
___ $110,000 - $119,999
___ $100,000 - $109,999
___ $90,000 - $99,999
__x_ $80,000 - $89,999
__x_ $70,000 - $79,999
__x_ $60,000 - $69,999
___ $50,000 - $59,999
___ less than $50,000
___ this is a part-time appointment paying less than $30,000
___this is an adjunct appointment paying less than $10,000
Additional information about base salary or other compensation:
Funding for professional development, including conference travel and research assistants, is provided.
4. The number of students enrolled in each semester of the courses taught by the legal research & writing professor will be:
__ a. 30 or fewer
__ b. 31 - 35
__ c. 36 - 40
_x_ d. 41 - 45
_x_ e. 46 - 50
__ f. 51 - 55
__ g. 56 - 60
__ h. more than 60
Additional information about teaching load, including required or permitted
teaching outside of the legal research and writing program:
Note: The Association of Legal Writing Directors requires and the Legal Writing Institute recommends that this disclosure form accompany all E-mail postings of teaching opportunities for legal research & writing professors sent to subscribers of the DIRCON and LRWPROF-L listservs. This form is not required for notices of academic support positions, for notices for writing specialists, or for other academic teaching opportunities, unless those positions require the teacher to teach courses required of a legal research & writing professor at the law school (however, we strongly encourage the optional use of the form for such appointments). A subscriber's failure to comply with these requirements on DIRCON may result in the loss of subscriber privileges.
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| Position Type: | long-term |
| Faculty Vote: | Yes |
| Salary: | 60-69k,70-79k,80-89k |
Students
Per Semester: | 41-45 |
| Submission Deadline: | 2012-02-28 |
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| Contact's full name: | Lori A. Roberts |
| Title: | Director of Legal Writing & Research |
| Organization: | Western State University College of Law |
| | 1111 North State College Boulevard |
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| | Fullerton CA 92561 |
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| | Phone: | 714-459-1145 |
| Fax: | |
| Email: | loroberts@wsulaw.edu |
| Website: | |
| Description: | Western State University College of Law invites applications for a full-time legal writing faculty position for the 2011-2012 academic year. The professor will teach two sections (approximately 40 students, total) of the first-year legal writing and research classes each semester. Along with the Director and Assistant Director, the professor will be full a participant in the curricular design and creative process involved in putting together the Legal Writing & Research courses, including developing course materials and writing problems. In addition, the professor will be responsible for scheduling appropriate weekly office hours for student meetings, attending monthly faculty meetings, and will also serve on at least one faculty committee.
The position offers an initial one-year contract, after which, the faculty member is eligible to apply for a presumptively renewable long-term contract (5 years). Long Term Contract Faculty are eligible for research grants and have the same voting right on all aspects of faculty governance as tenure-track faculty, except selection and promotion of tenured and tenure-track faculty.
Candidates must have a J.D. degree, strong academic credentials, excellent analytical, writing, and research skills, superior interpersonal skills, and a commitment to teaching in the legal research and writing field. A minimum of two years of legal practice and at least one year of teaching experience is highly preferred.
To apply, please send cover letter, resume, and list of three references to Lori A. Roberts, Director of Legal Writing & Research, at loroberts@wsulaw.edu. The application deadline is February 30, 2012.
Western State University College of Law is an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment practices on any basis including race, color, religion, national/ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran or marital status or other protected status covered by federal, state or local law.
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| Position Type: | long-term |
| Faculty Vote: | Yes |
| Salary: | 70-79k |
Students
Per Semester: | 41-45 |
| Submission Deadline: | 2012-02-30 |
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| Contact's full name: | Tracy Turner |
| Title: | Director of the LAWS Program |
| Organization: | Southwestern Law School |
| | 3050 Wilshire Boulevard |
| | |
| | Los Angeles CA 90010 |
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| | Phone: | 213-738-5736 |
| Fax: | |
| Email: | tturner@swlaw.edu |
| Website: | www.swlaw.edu |
| Description: | Southwestern Law School is seeking applicants for a full-time position as a professor of Legal Analysis, Writing and Skills (LAWS). Our innovative LAWS course offers first-year students six credits of instruction in core lawyering skills including research, writing, client counseling, oral advocacy, and professionalism. Entry-level appointment as an Associate Professor of Legal Analysis, Writing and Skills is for an initial contract of two years with the possibility of presumptively renewable five-year contracts after the third year. LAWS professors participate actively in the life of Southwestern and enjoy full faculty voting rights. The LAWS program has a director and shared core assignments, but faculty members each select and develop their own teaching materials and lessons. Applicants must have a law degree, strong academic record, and at least two years of post-law school experience demonstrating the potential for excellence in teaching legal writing and other practical lawyering skills. Teaching experience is preferred but not required. Southwestern is committed to faculty diversity. Applicants should anticipate a start date in July 2012. Please send a cover letter and resume to lawsad2012@swlaw.edu. You can address your cover letter to Members of the LAWS Hiring Committee. |
| Position Type: | long-term |
| Faculty Vote: | Yes |
| Salary: | 80-89k |
Students
Per Semester: | 41-45 |
| Submission Deadline: | 2012-02-20 |
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| Contact's full name: | Julia Lamber |
| Title: | Professor of Law |
| Organization: | Indiana University Maurer School of Law |
| | 211 S. Indiana Ave. |
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| | Bloomington IN 47401 |
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| | Phone: | 812-856-5536 |
| Fax: | |
| Email: | lamber@indiana.edu |
| Website: | http://www.law.indiana.edu/ |
| Description: | The Indiana University Maurer School of Law is seeking applicants for appointment as a full-time Lecturer to teach in the LLM program, including legal research and writing, beginning with the 2012-2013 academic year. Applicants must possess a J.D. degree, a strong academic record, an interest in teaching writing, and a sensitivity to the needs of international law students. Applicants with substantial practice experience and/or previous law teaching experience preferred. Initial appointment is for two years, renewable annually thereafter with the possibility of promotion and a long-term contract after six years. Applications from minority group members are welcomed. Salary range, depending on qualifications and experience, is in the mid-$50,000s for a 10-month appointment. The position also includes a generous benefits package.
The committee will begin to consider applications on February 13 and will continue to accept applications until the position is filled. To apply, please submit a statement of interest, resume, writing sample, and contact information for three references to Julia Lamber, Professor of Law at lamber@indiana.edu (or mail an application to Professor Lamber, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, 211 S. Indiana Ave, Bloomington, IN 47405).
Additional information about the Maurer School of Law is available at http://www.law.indiana.edu/
Indiana University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.
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| Position Type: | long-term |
| Faculty Vote: | Yes |
| Salary: | 50-59k |
Students
Per Semester: | 36-40 |
| Submission Deadline: | 2012-02-13 |
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| Contact's full name: | Suzannah Hicks |
| Title: | Assistant Professor |
| Organization: | Charlotte School of Law |
| | 2145 Suttle Avenue |
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| | Charlotte NC 28226 |
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| | Phone: | 704-971-8593 |
| Fax: | |
| Email: | shicks@charlottelaw.edu |
| Website: | http://www.charlottelaw.edu |
| Description: | Assistant Professor of Lawyering Process
Charlotte School of Law (CharlotteLaw) seeks full-time professors to teach legal writing in its Lawyering Process program for the 2012-13 academic year. Our mission is to provide a legal education that is student-centered, facilitates practice readiness, fosters personal integrity, and serves underserved communities.
CharlotteLaw's Lawyering Process program currently has 11 full-time professors and operates as a director-less, collaborative team. Lawyering Process Professors are expected to teach two lawyering process sections per semester, with a total of 20 students or less in each section. Scholarship in related areas is encouraged, but not expected. Lawyering Process professors are employed as a ten-month, non-tenure-track professional skills appointment, subject to long-term contract renewal, with full faculty voting rights. Salary is commensurate with education, qualifications, and experience.
We seek applications from experienced candidates with excellent academic records and demonstrated teaching ability. Applicants must have a law degree; excellent legal research, analysis, and writing skills; and the ability to work both independently and cooperatively. Prior teaching experience is preferred, and legal practice experience of 3+ years is required.
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THE CHARLOTTE SCHOOL OF LAW is located in North Carolina's most populous city - a dynamic community that combines warm Southern hospitality with a modern, world-class city.
Charlotte School of Law is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to developing a well-qualified and diverse faculty. Our mission is to provide a student-centered legal education where practical preparation is valued and where our students are committed to serving underserved communities. We seek to stimulate intellectual excellence and foster personal integrity in our students. The school is a member of the InfiLaw System, which includes Florida Coastal School of Law and Phoenix School of Law.
We are a law school that values motivation through inspiration, emotional intelligence as much as IQ, continuous improvement, measured outcomes, team goals, interdependence, and the creation of best practices. We are striving to create a culture of collegiality, integrity, dedication to teamwork, and a continuing commitment to improving self-awareness.
Application Procedure: Please send your resume, a cover letter, and three professional references to facultyappt@charlottelaw.edu. In your cover letter, please indicate that you are applying to teach legal writing in our Lawyering Process program. The resume and letter should be in Word or PDF format. For more information about us please explore our website: www.charlottelaw.edu. |
| Position Type: | long-term |
| Faculty Vote: | Yes |
| Salary: | 60-69k |
Students
Per Semester: | 36-40 |
| Submission Deadline: | 2012-03-01 |
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| Contact's full name: | Jo-Ann Verrier |
| Title: | Vice Dean, Administrative Services |
| Organization: | University of Pennsylvania Law School |
| | 3400 Chestnut Street |
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| | Philadelphia PA 19104-6204 |
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| | Phone: | 215-898-6746 |
| Fax: | |
| Email: | vicedean@law.upenn.edu |
| Website: | |
| Description: | Senior Fellow and Associate Dean, Legal Writing and Communication Skills
The University of Pennsylvania Law School, one of the nation's oldest and most distinguished law schools, offers a distinctive cross-disciplinary legal education "drawing on the depth and breadth of the University of Pennsylvania" and a supportive intellectual community for our scholars, staff, and students alike.
Penn Law seeks to appoint a full-time Senior Fellow and Associate Dean to its faculty to develop, administer, and teach in a newly expanded skills program in legal writing, drafting, and communication. This expanded program will build on Penn Law's strong first-year legal research and writing program in ways that prepare students for the realities of modern legal practice.
The Senior Fellow will design and implement a program giving students hands-on, practical, in-depth experience of the written and oral communication and presentation skills required of lawyers in today's increasingly technological and inter-disciplinary practice. This new program should offer a best-in-its-class curriculum that builds on but significantly innovates from the current legal writing program. Penn Law seeks to ensure that the expanded legal writing and communication program remains connected to the world of legal practice and continues to innovate in ways that reflect the changing nature of the legal practice. The Senior Fellow will develop the new curriculum in three broad areas.
First, the Senior Fellow will design and implement a new first-year legal research and writing program and a new LLM research and writing program that recognize the diverse communications skills needed for today's lawyers; the Senior Fellow will recommend the appropriate staffing and will have the assistance of the School's research librarians.
Second, the Senior Fellow will also design and implement with appropriate staff an upper level writing curriculum that builds on the required first year program but also recognizes the varied types of writing and communications skills used by lawyers in diverse practice settings.
Finally, the Senior Fellow will to the extent possible identify and implement ways to enhance the communications learning opportunities broadly. After gaining an in-depth understanding of the full Penn Law curriculum, the Senior Fellow will integrate and coordinate the program with analytical and doctrinal courses, clinical and practice courses, externships, pro bono learning, and the Penn Law Center on Professionalism programming.
The successful candidate must possess substantial practical experience in and a deeply-rooted passion for excellence in written advocacy and drafting and in communication strategies and techniques. He or she must present an inspiring vision for future directions that a premier legal writing and communication skills program should take. The ultimate goal, as with other Penn Law programs, is to educate law students to be skilled, experienced, reflective, cross-disciplinary practitioners.
Penn Law seeks candidates with strong practice experience, distinguished academic and professional achievement, dynamic teaching and supervisory skills, a track record of excellent team skills, and a collaborative approach. Penn Law recognizes that such candidates may come from a wide range of background and bring diverse experiences to the job. Candidates must have a minimum of five years of relevant practice experience; prior teaching and/or substantial experience mentoring new attorneys is desirable but not required. Candidates must hold a J.D. degree and be a member of a state bar.
Please submit all letters of interest with supporting CV/resume and other documents via e-mail to:
vicedean@law.upenn.edu
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| Position Type: | 1-4 years |
| Faculty Vote: | No |
| Salary: | 90+k |
Students
Per Semester: | 60+ |
| Submission Deadline: | 2012-03-01 |
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| Contact's full name: | Deborah B. McGregor |
| Title: | Assistant Director and Clinical Prof. of Law |
| Organization: | IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law |
| | 520 W. New York Street |
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| | Indianapolis IN 46202 |
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| | Phone: | 317/274-2608 |
| Fax: | 317/274-8565 |
| Email: | dmcgreg@iupui.edu |
| Website: | |
| Description: | Greetings,
We at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis are looking forward to working with a visiting professor during the 2012-2013 academic year and are now seeking to fill that position. Our visitor will teach the first-year Legal Analysis, Research, and Communication course, a graded course worth two credits each semester.
The ten-month contract begins on August 1, 2012. Applicants must have a juris doctorate degree from an accredited law school, excellent writing and analytical skills, and a strong academic record with experience in law practice or a judicial clerkship. Prior teaching experience is preferred. Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants without regard to age, disability, national origin, race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact any of us. Interested applicants should send a resume with three references and a writing sample by February 15 either via email to Deb McGregor at dmcgreg@iupui.edu or by mail to:
Professor Deborah B. McGregor
Assistant Director of Legal Analysis,
Research, and Communication
Clinical Professor of Law
Indiana University Robert H. McKinney
School of Law
530 West New York Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202
We look forward to hearing from you.
Regards,
Cynthia Adams cmadams@iupui.edu
Ken Chestek kchestek@iupui.edu
Jim Dimitri jddimitri@iupui.edu
Allison Martin martinad@iupui.edu
Deb McGregor dmcgreg@iupui.edu
Joan Ruhtenberg jruhtenberg@iupui.edu
Joel Schumm jmschumm@iupui.edu
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| Position Type: | long-term |
| Faculty Vote: | Yes |
| Salary: | 60-69k,70-79k,80-89k |
Students
Per Semester: | 36-40 |
| Submission Deadline: | 2012-02-15 |
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| Contact's full name: | Lisa Eichhorn |
| Title: | Director of Legal Writing |
| Organization: | Univ. of South Carolina School of Law |
| | Main & Greene Streets |
| | |
| | Columbia SC 29208 |
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| | Phone: | 803-777-7750 |
| Fax: | |
| Email: | eichhorn@law.sc.edu |
| Website: | |
| Description: | The University of South Carolina School of Law anticipates a possible opening for a full-time Legal Writing Instructor beginning August 2012. Each Instructor works with a teaching librarian to team-teach the 6-credit, year-long Legal Research, Analysis & Writing course to first-year students. Sections have 20 or fewer students, and each Instructor teaches two sections.
The position offers a 9-month contract, renewable based upon an annual review, during five probationary years. After this period, the successful Instructor will be eligible for presumptively-renewable five-year contracts. Salary is commensurate with experience. For an Instructor with no full-time teaching experience, the initial 9-month salary would likely be in the $50-56K range. Instructors are also eligible for a $10K stipend if they choose to teach a summer course.
Qualified candidates will have a J.D.; a distinguished academic record; strong analytical, research, and interpersonal skills; at least two years of practice experience; an abiding sense of humor; and astounding patience. Candidates must also demonstrate a passionate commitment to teaching legal writing. Prior teaching or tutoring experience is strongly preferred.
Applicants should email a cover letter and resume and the names of at least three references to Lisa Eichhorn, Director of Legal Writing, at eichhorn@law.sc.edu.
The University of South Carolina is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. People of all backgrounds are encouraged to apply. |
| Position Type: | long-term |
| Faculty Vote: | No |
| Salary: | 50-59k |
Students
Per Semester: | 36-40 |
| Submission Deadline: | 2012-05-01 |
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| Contact's full name: | Suparna Malempati |
| Title: | Associate Professor |
| Organization: | Atlanta's John Marshall Law School |
| | 1422 West Peachtree Street NW |
| | |
| | Atlanta GA 30309 |
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| | Phone: | 404-872-3593 ext. 134 |
| Fax: | |
| Email: | smalempati@johnmarshall.edu |
| Website: | www.johnmarshall.edu |
| Description: | ATLANTA'S JOHN MARSHALL LAW SCHOOL seeks applicants for a full-time (tenure-track) faculty position as Director of its Legal Skills and Professionalism Program.
Atlanta's John Marshall Law School has an innovative and dynamic tenure-track skills program consisting of eleven credit hours of first-year and upper-level required courses taught by approximately 15 tenure track skills faculty. The school is deeply committed to helping students achieve competency in practical skills prior to graduation.
The Director leads the legal skills faculty in making decisions regarding the direction and continuous improvement of the program. Responsibilities including training new skills faculty members; organizing the skills orientation program for first year law students; overseeing the syllabi for the required writing courses; and developing the common writing problems used by all sections; and chairing meetings of the legal skills faculty to discuss class content, teaching methods, and related questions. The Director has oversight over the electives skills courses to maintain consistency and quality, but course development is the primary responsibility of the skills professor who teaches that course.
In addition to directing the program, the Director also teaches in the program.
JMLS seeks a candidate who can carry out the duties of the Director mindful of the talents and needs of the other skills faculty and who will work with his or her skills colleagues, using strong leadership, communication, and consensus-building skills. Successful candidates will have excellent academic qualifications, at least five years of practice experience, strong scholarly potential, and a strong interest in the practical training of lawyers. Successful experience in teaching, leading colleagues in an academic setting, developing course syllabi, and drafting hypothetical problems for use as writing assignments is strongly preferred. The Director should also be committed to identifying opportunities for bringing further national recognition to the school's skills program.
Atlanta's John Marshall Law School encourages applications from candidates whose background would contribute to the law school's commitment to diversity. Atlanta's John Marshall Law School is an Equal Opportunity employer.
REQUIREMENTS: Please email (no hard-copies please) your CV and letter of interest no later than March 1, 2012. Send information to: Associate Professor Suparna Malempati, Atlanta's John Marshall Law School, smalempati@johnmarshall.edu. If you have any questions, please contact Associate Professor Malempati via email. For additional information, please visit www.johnmarshall.edu.
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| Position Type: | tenure |
| Faculty Vote: | Yes |
| Salary: | 70-79k,80-89k,90+k |
Students
Per Semester: | 41-45 |
| Submission Deadline: | 2012-03-01 |
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| Contact's full name: | Suparna Malempati |
| Title: | Associate Professor |
| Organization: | Atlanta's John Marshall Law School |
| | 1422 West Peachtree Street NW |
| | |
| | Atlanta GA 30309 |
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| | Phone: | 404-872-3593 ext. 134 |
| Fax: | |
| Email: | smalempati@johnmarshall.edu |
| Website: | www.johnmarshall.edu |
| Description: | ATLANTA'S JOHN MARSHALL LAW SCHOOL invites applications for tenure track faculty appointments in its Legal Skills and Professionalism Program to begin August 1, 2012. Applicants must meet high standards of professional accomplishment and superior academic performance, as reflected by achievements such as class standing, law review positions, Order of the Coif, judicial clerkships, published legal articles, and significant practice history.
Atlanta's John Marshall Law School has an innovative and dynamic skills program consisting of 11 credit hours of first-year and upper-level required courses taught by approximately 15 tenure track skills faculty. The school is deeply committed to helping students achieve competency in practical skills prior to graduation. The skills faculty will teach one section in the 1L writing program as well as one section of an upper level elective skills course.
John Marshall seeks applications from those who would be excellent classroom teachers, strong role models of professionalism and ethics, and who demonstrate exceptional promise as legal scholars. The Law School is committed to its historic mission, including diversity and service to traditionally underserved communities.
REQUIREMENTS: Please email (no hard-copies please) your CV and letter of interest no later than February 27, 2012. Specifically address your teaching interests and potential as a legal scholar. Send information to: Associate Professor Suparna Malempati, Atlanta's John Marshall Law School, smalempati@johnmarshall.edu. If you have any questions, please contact Associate Professor Malempati via email. For additional information, please visit www.johnmarshall.edu.
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| Position Type: | tenure |
| Faculty Vote: | Yes |
| Salary: | 60-69k,70-79k,80-89k |
Students
Per Semester: | 41-45 |
| Submission Deadline: | 2012-02-27 |
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| Contact's full name: | Susan Markus |
| Title: | Director, Legal Writing Center |
| Organization: | CUNY School of Law |
| | 65-21 Main Street |
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| | Flushing NY 11367 |
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| | Phone: | 718-340-4470 |
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| Email: | markus@mail.law.cuny.edu |
| Website: | |
| Description: | Help |
Job Description
Job Title: Law School Instructor
Job ID: 5352
Location: CUNY School of Law
Full/Part Time: Full-Time
Regular/Temporary: Regular
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GENERAL DUTIES
Performs teaching, research, and guidance duties at the CUNY School of Law in area(s) of expertise as noted below. Teaching responsibilities may include supervision of students in legal practice or other law-related activity. Shares responsibility for committee and department assignments, performing administrative, supervisory, and other functions as may be assigned.
CONTRACT TITLE
Law Instructor
FLSA Exempt
CAMPUS SPECIFIC INFORMATION
The Law School seeks applicants with a demonstrated commitment to our social justice mission for a full-time teaching position. The Law School Instructor hired in this cycle will primarily teach First-Year Lawyering Seminar, the foundational course in CUNY School of Law's nationally recognized lawyering curriculum, with particular focus on the training development of public interest/public service lawyers.
Spanning all three years of law school, the Law School's lawyering curriculum was hailed by the
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in its 2007 Report, Educating Lawyers:
Preparation for the Profession of Law. CUNY Law innovatively and successfully integrates students
learning of practical skills and the ethical demands of professional identity with their learning of legal theory and doctrine. The Law School's First-Year Lawyering Seminar teaches legal analysis, legal writing, professional responsibility, and other lawyering skills by integrating clinical methodology with
substantive, theoretical, and doctrinal material. Using simulation exercises and hypothetical cases,
students role-play lawyers, clients, judges, and/or legislators confronted by legal issues arising from material in their other first-year courses. The Lawyering Seminar focuses on the ways in which lawyers work and think in various areas of practice, with a focus on public interest law. Students develop their
analytic skills by writing and revising legal documents on which they receive feedback and critiques. They also acquire new qualitative skills, such as active listening, collaborative problem solving and decision-making, self-evaluation, and ethical reasoning. Students are encouraged to develop critical
awareness of the social, legal, philosophical, political, and psychological content of their work. The Law School views these perspectives as central to a future lawyer's understanding of his/her status and role,including the mandates and aspirations of the New York Rules of Professional Conduct. Second-Year Lawyering Seminar and required clinical courses in the third-year build on the skills learned in the first year. The Instructor may, in accordance with the law school's needs, teach additional lawyering seminars, a doctrinal course, and/or provide academic skill instruction or other program support. This position is full-time and the instructor will be expected to teach and/or assist with the design and
development of curriculum materials during the summer. The Law School Instructor will be responsible for committee work and such administrative, supervisory, and other functions as assigned. In their first two years of service, Law School Instructors may opt into participating in faculty meetings, pursuant to the CUNY School of Law Governance Plan. Instructors may assume other faculty governance responsibilities and serve on committees as appointed by the Dean or Committee on Committees. Upon reappointment for three or more years of continuous service, Law School Instructors may participate in
governance activities without an annual opt-in process. Law School Instructors will perform other relatedduties as necessary or as directed by the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.
This position may include weekend and evening hours
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
A J.D., L.L.B., or Ph.D. in a law-related discipline. Also required are demonstrated legal ability, the ability to teach successfully, interest in productive scholarship, legal work, or law-related work, and ability to
cooperate with others for the good of the institution.
OTHER QUALIFICATIONS
Demonstrated outstanding qualities of personality, character, legal ability and commitment to public service or public interest law. Minimum of five years experience, excellent writing skill, and substantial experience teaching in the areas of legal writing, lawyering, and legal analysis/legal methods. Additional doctrinal teaching experience, particularly in the area of commercial law.
COMPENSATION
$39,832 - $86,595; commensurate with experience.
BENEFITS
CUNY offers a comprehensive benefits package to employees and eligible dependents based on job title and classification. Employees are also offered pension and Tax-Deferred Savings Plans. Part-time employees must meet a weekly or semester work hour criteria to be eligible for health benefits. Health benefits are also extended to retirees who meet the eligibility criteria.
HOW TO APPLY
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For position inquiries contact:
Rosa Navarra
Coordinator of Faculty Recruitment
facutyappointments@mail.law.cuny.edu
CLOSING DATE
Open until filled, with review of resumes to begin February 15, 2012.
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EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
We are committed to enhancing our diverse academic community by actively encouraging people with disabilities, minorities, veterans, and women to apply. We take pride in our pluralistic community and continue to seek excellence through diversity and inclusion. EO/AA Employer.
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| Position Type: | 1-4 years |
| Faculty Vote: | Yes |
| Salary: | 80-89k |
Students
Per Semester: | <30 |
| Submission Deadline: | 2012-03-01 |
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