Description:

Founded in 1887, Cornell Law School is a top-tier law school. We offer a 3-year JD program for about 200 students per class, a one-year LLM program for about 90 students from countries throughout the world, and a doctoral (JSD) program for about 2-3 new students per year. Cornell Law School has 41 tenured and tenure-track faculty, including 20 with chaired faculty positions; and 15 clinical professors in the legal research and writing program and in clinics at the local, national, and international level. Our faculty is consistently ranked among the top in the country for scholarly productivity and influence, and has pre-eminence in many areas, including quantitative and qualitative empirical legal studies, international and comparative law, and robust doctrinal scholarship in core fields. Our school is committed to being recognized as the leader among law schools at combining inspiring theoretical, doctrinal, and experiential teaching with cutting-edge scholarship in a supportive, intellectually rich community, so that our graduates can achieve excellence in all facets of the legal profession.

The Lawyering Program at Cornell Law School seeks candidates for a full-time visiting faculty position during the 2027-2028 and 2028-2029 academic years.

The Lawyering course is a year-long course (two credits each semester) that introduces first-year students to lawyering skills, with an emphasis on legal writing, legal analysis, oral-presentation skills, and legal research. Lawyering faculty collaborate to ensure a uniform core curriculum, but they retain substantial academic freedom. Law librarians teach the research component of the course. The visiting faculty member will teach one section of the Lawyering course (approximately 35 students) each semester.

This appointment is for a two-year term. Salary and benefits are competitive and include a budget for research and travel.

Qualifications: Applicants must have a J.D., excellent academic credentials, a strong writing background, and substantial legal-practice experience. Teaching experience is also preferred.

To apply: Interested candidates should apply via https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32535. Please submit a cover letter, curriculum vita, the names of and contact information for three references, and two writing samples.

To ensure maximum consideration, please submit all application materials by September 30, 2026. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, with priority given to early applicants.

Consistent with Cornell's practice, appointment to academic positions requires candidates to disclose relevant information about their prior employment, including whether they have been found to have violated institutional or employer policies related to or governing unlawful discrimination and harassment, academic and research misconduct, or financial misconduct.

Questions may be referred to Michelle Whelan, Chair of the Faculty Appointments Lawyering Program Subcommittee, maf282@cornell.edu.

The expected starting salary for this position is $90,000-$99,999.

Pay Range:
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Pay Ranges:
The hiring rate of pay for the successful candidate will be determined considering the following criteria:

Prior relevant work or industry experience.
Education level to the extent education is relevant to the position.
Academic Discipline
Unique applicable skills.

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