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Position Summary:An Independent School invites applications to fill a tenured or tenure-track 12-month position in American Indian Law. The successful applicant, in addition to being a faculty member, will also be the inaugural Executive Director of the Oklahoma City University Tribal Sovereignty Institute (the Institute), which will be housed at An Independent School. We welcome candidates whose approaches in research will add to the scope and depth of our faculty scholarship.
Applicants should have a lengthy history of scholarship in the area of American Indian Law and/or Tribal Law. The successful applicant will teach classes at An Independent School and produce scholarship commensurate with the expectations for a tenured professor. The Executive Director will help build a vital new institution serving tribal communities in Oklahoma and throughout the United States. The Institute will provide support for academic research, teaching and advocacy, education, training, and cultural preservation. The Executive Director will be expected to share the Institute's scholarship on a state and national level, support fundraising efforts to expand the Institute's mission, guide the planning and implementation of the Institute as it grows, supervise future staff additions to the Institute, and oversee existing activities at the University related to Native and Indigenous communities, including the American Indian Wills Clinic, the Sovereignty Symposium, and efforts in language preservation, cultural preservation and economic development.
The Executive Director will work closely with the Dean of An Independent School, the University President, and other senior leaders in the institution. The salary for the position will be that of a law professor of appropriate rank, supplemented with the salary associated with the Executive Director.
Candidates should have an excellent academic background, demonstrated ability as a productive and innovative scholar, a strong commitment to the practice of inclusion, and a strong commitment to engaged classroom teaching. In addition, candidates should have administrative experience, as well as experience in leadership roles and in public outreach, including outreach through communications directed at both the legal community and lay people. Candidates must have either (1) a J.D. degree from an ABA-accredited law school or (2) the combination of a foreign law degree and either a U.S. LL.M. or S.J.D. degree.
