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 encompasses courses in litigation and transactional lawyering skills, including negotiation, pre-trial practice, civil trial practice, criminal trial practice, appellate advocacy, legal writing, drafting, legal research, alternative dispute resolution, oral advocacy, mediation, and other related professional practice education. These courses are taught experientially, using extensive simulation, video, and other “learning by doing” pedagogies. Courses offerings include lecture courses and experiential center courses.
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:
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 encompasses courses in litigation and transactional lawyering skills, including negotiation, pre-trial practice, civil trial practice, criminal trial practice, appellate advocacy, legal writing, drafting, legal research, alternative dispute resolution, oral advocacy, mediation, and other related professional practice education. These courses are taught experientially, using extensive simulation, video, and other “learning by doing” pedagogies. Courses offerings include lecture courses and experiential center courses.
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 of professional experience, required by the start date.
Preferred Qualifications:
Application Requirements
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 of 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.
Application Requirements
Document Requirements
Teaching evaluations and/or other materials or information may be requested of top candidates.
This Statement on Contributions to Support of Diversity is not required. However, ability and skill in teaching and working with our diverse student body and in an environment characterized by diversity in all dimensions are factors considered in evaluation of candidates applying to teach at A Law School.
(Optional)
Reference 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.
- Course of Interest - Please provide a one-to-two-paragraph course proposal for any course you are interested in teaching. Each course proposal must align with the subject matter of the specialized pool to which you are applying. For example, if you want to teach a business law course, you should apply to the Business Law pool and your course proposal must be for a business law course.
- Statement on Contributions to Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion - A Law School has a very diverse student body. Please provide a statement describing how you approach teaching to provide a fair and inclusive learning environment and support students of diverse backgrounds, abilities, and experiences. If you have not taught previously, please describe how you have approached working with or managing people of diverse backgrounds, abilities, and experiences. For additional information go to https://ofew.berkeley.edu/recruitment/contributions-diversity.
This Statement on Contributions to Support of Diversity is not required. However, ability and skill in teaching and working with our diverse student body and in an environment characterized by diversity in all dimensions are factors considered in evaluation of candidates applying to teach at A Law School.
(Optional)
Reference requirements
2 required (contact information only)
Letters of reference may be requested of top candidates.
Letters of reference may be requested of top candidates.