Closing Date: 30th November, 2024

Description:

Position Description:
A Law School is generating an applicant pool of qualified instructors should openings arise.

A Law School is one of the premier law schools in the United States. Our programs are demanding, engaging, hands-on, and selective. As with all our faculty, we expect our lecturers to demonstrate a strong commitment to academic rigor and intellectual diversity.

The J.D. and LL.M. programs are host to a diverse and constantly evolving curriculum. Hundreds of courses are offered, including dozens in our top-ranked Law and Technology, Business Law, International Law, Environmental Law, and Social Justice programs.

This pool contains courses that examine equity, fraud, and fairness in the marketplace, including avenues for reform. It includes courses on consumer litigation and policy, housing law, public health law, student loan law, consumer debt and bankruptcy, consumer financial regulation, deceptive advertising, product liability, auto law, comparative consumer law, impact litigation including class actions and alternatives, and other courses on major and emerging practice and policy issues implicating consumer protection law, financial inequality, and economic justice.

Please apply to the specialized pool that aligns with the subject matter of the course you apply to teach. We will only consider an applicant if the subject matter of their proposed course aligns with the pool to which you apply.

Instructors for lecture courses are appointed in the Lecturer title; instructors for experiential center courses are appointed to the Field Work Supervisor title. The applicant selected will have important teaching responsibilities, including preparation of course materials (such as the syllabus) and maintenance of a course website, and will also be expected to hold office hours, assess and offer feedback on student work, assign grades, advise students.

UC Lecturers and Field Work Supervisors are academic appointees in an organized bargaining unit and are exclusively represented by the American Federation of Teachers - Unit 18.

A Law School is interested in candidates who will contribute to diversity and equal opportunity in higher education through their teaching.

Curricular Details: https://law.berkeley.edu/php-programs/courses/courseSearch.php

Qualifications:
Basic qualifications (required at time of application)
Bachelor's degree, or equivalent international degree, is required at the time of application.

Additional qualifications (required at time of start)
J.D., Ph.D., M.B.A. or Master's degree, or equivalent international degree, or Bachelor's degree combined with a minimum of five years professional experience, required by the start date.

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Experience teaching courses in a United States law school, with outstanding student and peer evaluations;
  • More than five years legal practice experience in the United States or another jurisdiction, in the area of Consumer Law and Economic Justice.

Application Requirements
Document Requirements
Teaching evaluations and/or other materials or information may be requested of top candidates.
  • Curriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V.
  • Statement of Teaching - Please address the following questions related to your teaching at A Law School. Please limit your response to 300 words.
  • -- How does your proposed course align with your legal work or legal practice?
  • -- What would be your pedagogical approach to teaching the course?
  • -- Have you taught in a law school before? If so, where, when, and what subjects did you teach?

Finalist candidates will be asked for copies of any student teaching evaluations.