August 2023

Baylor Law is looking to hire for multiple tenure-track positions and for someone to lead our Academic Success Program this year.

Baylor Law School seeks candidates for three tenure-track positions to fill several curricular needs. We seek highly credentialed individuals with practical experience who are interested in teaching courses in Constitutional Law, Criminal Law and Procedure, Business and Transactional Law, and Intellectual Property (Patent). 

We also seek a motivated and experienced candidate with excellent teaching and collaborative skills to lead our Academic Success Program. The ideal candidate will be a creative, organized, and compassionate leader who is eager to engage extensively with students from matriculation through their admission into the bar. This position is a full-time faculty, non-tenure-track lecturer position. The successful candidate should be available to start ideally no later than January 1, 2024, but the start date is negotiable.

More information about the positions is available here: www.baylor.edu/law/facultystaff/index.php?id=980341

Baylor Law has a small student body and a collegial faculty deeply devoted to the mission of the Law School. Our primary focus is to train students to become practice-ready upon graduation. Please direct questions about our open positions to Laura_Hernandez@baylor.edu or Matthew_Cordon@baylor.edu.

Tulane University Law School invites applications from entry-level and early tenure track lateral candidates for one or more tenure-track faculty positions.  We welcome applications from candidates with teaching and research interests in all topics, but we are particularly interested in candidates who focus on commercial law, torts, civil/comparative law, race and the law, environmental law, constitutional law, and tax law.  Candidates who are not participating in the AALS faculty recruitment process should apply through Interfolio, at this link (https://apply.interfolio.com/127945).  Please direct any questions about this position to Adam Feibelman at afeibelm@tulane.edu. To learn more about the law school, visit our website at https://law.tulane.edu/. Tulane University is committed to creating a community and culture that foster a sense of belonging for all. We are a recognized employer and educator valuing AA/EEO, Protected Veterans, and Individuals with Disabilities. We encourage all qualified candidates to apply. We are intentionally seeking candidates who are committed to fostering equity, diversity, and inclusion in support of Tulane’s strategic initiatives. 

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS HIRING ANNOUNCEMENT

August 17, 2023

Washington University School of Law invites applications from entry-level or lateral candidates for tenure-track and tenured positions, to begin in the fall of 2024. We are searching for entry level, tenure-track faculty, particularly in private law, as well as tenure-track or lateral appointments in family law, health law, intellectual property and/or technology and the law, and empirical legal analysis.

Candidates must have at a minimum a JD or, in certain cases, the equivalent in a related field. Entry level candidates should have strong scholarly potential and a commitment to excellence in teaching. Lateral candidates should have demonstrated scholarly excellence and evidence of teaching success. Strong candidates will demonstrate the ability to create inclusive classrooms and environments in which students can learn and thrive. Duties for all faculty will include engaging in research and producing scholarship, teaching assigned courses, advising students, and participating in law school and university governance and service. The committee will be reviewing entry-level applications submitted through the AALS Faculty Appointments Register, but we also invite submissions outside of the FAR process.

Candidates who are not applying through the FAR process may submit applications directly to Professor Adrienne…

The Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University is pleased to invite applications for up to three entry-level or junior lateral tenure-track faculty members, to begin in Fall 2024. We seek candidates with a strong record or promise of significant scholarship and a demonstrated commitment to excellence in teaching who will bring diverse experiences and perspectives to enrich our law school community. We are seeking candidates across all subject areas, with particular interest in candidates who will teach courses in the following areas: Civil Procedure; Constitutional Law; Contracts; Criminal Law; Property; and Torts. We are also interested in candidates with research and teaching interests in Environmental Law and in Technology and the Law.

The Associate Professor of Law will be responsible for, but not limited to, the following:

  • Teaching substantive courses in agreed-upon doctrinal areas
  • Research, publishing and contributing to the national and local legal scholarly community
  • Supporting efforts to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment for faculty, staff, and students.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Juris Doctor degree

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS:

Applications should be submitted electronically at https://hofstra.peopleadmin.com and include the following: a letter of application, CV, scholarly agenda, proposed job talk topic or paper, and the names and contact information for…

Florida State University College of Law invites entry-level and lateral candidates to apply for tenure-track and tenured positions to begin August 2024. Candidates in all academic areas are encouraged to apply, although business law subjects will be hiring priorities.

FSU Law also invites applications and nominations for the Tobias Simon Chair in Public Law. The Chair was established in honor of Tobias Simon, a well-known civil rights lawyer and late professor at the College of Law. Candidates must hold a J.D., Ph.D., or equivalent degree, have significant experience (5 years minimum) in teaching and/or practice, and be qualified for appointment as a tenured, full professor. Candidates must have a distinguished publication record in a public law field, including, but not limited to, civil rights and civil liberties, international law, and public policy.

If interested in either/both opportunities, please send a letter of application and curriculum vitae to:

Professor Wayne Logan, Chair
Appointments Committee
Florida State University College of Law
Tallahassee, FL 32306-1601
wlogan@law.fsu.edu

FSU is an Equal Opportunity/Access/Affirmative Action/Pro Disabled & Veteran Employer.

FSU’s Equal Opportunity Statement can be viewed at: www.hr.fsu.edu/PDF/Publications/diversity/…

There are quite a number of law schools hiring in the business law area this year, but if you are on the market, do not forget about business schools. Below are a few recent postings:

Baylor University (Chair in Accounting & Business Law)

Fairfield University

Indiana University

Middle Tennessee State University

University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)

University of St. Thomas (St. Paul, MN)

And here are my thoughts (from a decade ago!) on the differences I found moving from law school teaching to business school teaching. 

A new opinion this week tells us that “Defendant, Intermed Resources TN, LLC, [is] a Tennessee limited liability company that markets medical equipment.”  Camber Spine Technologies v. Intermed Resources TN, LLC, No. CV 22-3648, 2023 WL 5182597, at *1 (E.D. Pa. Aug. 11, 2023). The opinion later, though, tells us that Intermed is a “Tennessee limited liability corporation.” It was right, before it was wrong. 

The United States Supreme Court has told us that the test for general personal jurisdiction for LLCs is the same test that is used for corporations. Daimler AG v. Bauman, 571 U.S. 117, 123 (2014). Unfortunately, in that case, Justice Ginsburg referred to “MBUSA” as “a Delaware limited liability corporation.” MBUSA is an LLC, not a corporation. It’s a little less clear in cases of specific jurisdiction, so there is least some potential litigation value in the getting this right, in addition the more general principle of being accurate. 

Camber Spine was one the case calling an LLC a corporation that I found this week. Last week there were four more: 

  1.  Ocean Tomo LLC v. Golabs, Inc., No. 22 C 4966, 2023 WL 4930348, at *2 (N.D. Ill. Aug. 2,

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Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center Seeking to Fill
Two Tenure Track Positions in Business Organizations and Criminal Law/Evidence

 The Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center is pleased to announce that it is currently seeking outstanding applicants for two tenure-track appointments to its full-time faculty starting in August 2024. The law school welcomes applications from candidates interested in teaching Business Organizations, Criminal Law, and Evidence.

Ideal candidates must have a J.D. degree from an ABA accredited law school and a commitment to teaching in an environment dedicated to excellence in teaching and mentoring of students. We look for innovative faculty with a preference for both practice and teaching experience. Applicants must demonstrate a commitment to service to legal education and to the wider community as well as a desire to engage in the intellectual life of the Law Center. With one of the most diverse student bodies in the country, Touro Law Center is dedicated to the aims of diversity and strongly encourages applications from women and minorities.  Applicants are expected to be willing and capable of teaching in-person and remotely and be familiar with best practices in both modalities. 

Touro Law Center, a member of the…

I recently became a Corporate Law Jotwell contributing editor.  My first jot, TOWARD A NON-BINARY VISION OF DISCLOSURE REGULATION, promotes Lisa Fairfax’s article: Dynamic Disclosure: An Exposé on the Mythical Divide Between Voluntary and Mandatory ESG Disclosure, 101 Tex. L. Rev. 273 (2022).  The crux?

At its core, Lisa Fairfax’s Dynamic Disclosure: An Exposé on the Mythical Divide Between Voluntary and Mandatory ESG Disclosure embraces mandatory disclosure rules in the spirit in which they have been enacted and employed in U.S. federal securities regulation. The article also, however, articulates the independent and cooperative value of voluntary disclosure as an important piece of the regulatory puzzle. . . . Her insightful and diplomatic treatment of the subject matter is a breath of fresh air in ongoing debates about both the regulation of ESG disclosures specifically and mandatory disclosure as a component of securities regulation more generally.

Read the jot.  But more importantly, read Lisa’s excellent article!

The AALS Professional Responsibility Section invites papers for its program “2024 New Voices Workshop.” The goal of this audience interactive workshop is to provide a forum for new voices and new ideas related to professional responsibility (PR), broadly defined.

Many scholars might address PR without realizing it. We are interested in your potential contributions whether you are an evidence scholar writing about the attorney-client privilege, a feminist interested in gender dynamics that affect lawyering, a critical race scholar commenting on how power plays out in legal systems, an ethicist exploring the moral foundations of the rules governing lawyering, or something entirely different.

Toward that end, we encourage you to submit a proposal even if you are pursuing scholarship on PR for the first time, even if you question whether your ideas really do relate to PR, and even if you are reticent to submit for some other reason.

The selected papers will be presented at the AALS Annual Meeting in January of 2024.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:

The Workshop will be an opportunity to nurture the growth of a broad scholarly community in the field of Professional Responsibility and Legal Ethics. As such, it is a place to take risks and develop…