Closing Date: 15th October, 2025
Description:
Position Description:
Berkeley Law is one of the nation's great centers for legal education, ever exploring and pushing new intellectual boundaries while tackling urgent, real-world issues. The law school is also known for its vibrant and engaged community of students and scholars who are committed to providing leadership and making a difference on problems of local, national and global import. Currently ranked among the top law schools in the country, the School of Law has ambitious development goals as it looks to continue producing leaders in law, government, and society.
Berkeley Law invites applications from tenured and untenured lateral candidates for full-time, tenured and tenure-track faculty positions. We welcome applications from candidates across all areas of law, although subject areas of particular interest include business law, criminal law and procedure, evidence, health law, and national security law.
Berkeley Law strives to educate responsible, effective, and forward-thinking advocates who serve the public through legal practice, public policy, academic scholarship, and related fields. In doing so, the school addresses some of society's most pressing challenges by leveraging its strengths in teaching and research to improve law, policy, and public institutions. At the heart of Berkeley Law's public mission is a commitment to access, affordability, and empowering students from all backgrounds to pursue impactful careers across a wide range of professional paths.
Berkeley Law is committed to addressing the family needs of faculty, including dual career couples and single parents. We are also interested in candidates who have had non-traditional career paths or who have taken time off for family reasons, or who have achieved excellence in careers outside academia. For information about potential relocation to Berkeley, or career needs of accompanying partners and spouses, please visit: http://ofew.berkeley.edu/new-faculty. (http://ofew.berkeley.edu/new-faculty)
School: https://www.law.berkeley.edu/
Public Mission: https://www.law.berkeley.edu/public-mission/
Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
Application Requirements
Berkeley Law is one of the nation's great centers for legal education, ever exploring and pushing new intellectual boundaries while tackling urgent, real-world issues. The law school is also known for its vibrant and engaged community of students and scholars who are committed to providing leadership and making a difference on problems of local, national and global import. Currently ranked among the top law schools in the country, the School of Law has ambitious development goals as it looks to continue producing leaders in law, government, and society.
Berkeley Law invites applications from tenured and untenured lateral candidates for full-time, tenured and tenure-track faculty positions. We welcome applications from candidates across all areas of law, although subject areas of particular interest include business law, criminal law and procedure, evidence, health law, and national security law.
Berkeley Law strives to educate responsible, effective, and forward-thinking advocates who serve the public through legal practice, public policy, academic scholarship, and related fields. In doing so, the school addresses some of society's most pressing challenges by leveraging its strengths in teaching and research to improve law, policy, and public institutions. At the heart of Berkeley Law's public mission is a commitment to access, affordability, and empowering students from all backgrounds to pursue impactful careers across a wide range of professional paths.
Berkeley Law is committed to addressing the family needs of faculty, including dual career couples and single parents. We are also interested in candidates who have had non-traditional career paths or who have taken time off for family reasons, or who have achieved excellence in careers outside academia. For information about potential relocation to Berkeley, or career needs of accompanying partners and spouses, please visit: http://ofew.berkeley.edu/new-faculty. (http://ofew.berkeley.edu/new-faculty)
School: https://www.law.berkeley.edu/
Public Mission: https://www.law.berkeley.edu/public-mission/
Qualifications:
- Basic qualifications (required at time of application)
- Candidates must either: a) hold a J.D. or equivalent international degree by date of application, or b) hold a Ph.D. or equivalent international degree.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Ability to teach at least one 1L service course
- Ability to work with students from diverse disciplinary backgrounds.
- Ability to mentor a diverse student body, including those from non-traditional and underrepresented minority backgrounds.
- Ability to contribute to building an equitable, diverse, and interdisciplinary learning environment for all students, including those with nontraditional backgrounds.
Application Requirements
Document requirements
Reference requirements
- Curriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V.
- Statement of Research, Teaching, and Service - Please provide a statement discussing your scholarship, teaching and mentoring, and service.
- In discussing your scholarly research, we are interested in your accomplishments and future plans, for example, your publication record and/or future agenda as well as any awards, presentations, or efforts to build an equitable, diverse, and scholarly field.
- In discussing your teaching interests, we are interested in, for example, your experiences, approach to teaching and mentoring, including working with students from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, accomplishments and future plans to mentor, teach, and build an equitable and inclusive learning environment for all students through curriculum design, classroom environment, and pedagogy.
- In describing your service, we are interested in, for example, your prior and proposed academic, professional and/or public service activities that align with our School's public mission. This could include efforts to build an equitable and diverse learning environment for all students, participating in professional organizations, serving on committees that advance the goals of the School or institution, and conducting outreach activities that remove barriers and support increased participation of individuals from all backgrounds.
- Authorization to Release Information Form - A reference check will be completed only if you are selected as the candidate to whom the hiring unit would like to extend a formal offer. Download, complete, sign, and upload the Authorization to Release Information form.
Reference requirements
3 required (contact information only)
Apply link: https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05134
Help contact: marcina.b1464@berkeley.edu
