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Professor Heminway brought nearly 15 years of corporate practice experience to the University of Tennessee College of Law when she joined the faculty in 2000. She practiced transactional business law (working in the areas of public offerings, private placements, mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, and restructurings) in the Boston office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP from 1985 through 2000.

She has served as an expert witness and consultant on business entity and finance and federal and state securities law matters and is a frequent academic and continuing legal education presenter on business law issues. Professor Heminway also has represented pro bono clients on political asylum applications, landlord/tenant appeals, social security/disability cases, and not-for-profit incorporations and related business law issues. Read More

ST. JOHN’S UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW seeks entry-level and lateral candidates to join our dynamic faculty. We are deeply committed to equity, inclusion, and anti-racism, and are particularly interested in candidates who will enrich the diversity of our faculty. We are open to a variety of teaching and scholarly interests including Business and Transactional Law, Constitutional Law, Dispute Resolution, Environmental Law, Race and the Law, and Technology and the Law and have a special interest in Trusts and Estates.

St. John’s Law School is located in New York City in the borough of Queens, one of the most diverse urban communities in the United States. We are part of St. John’s University, a Catholic, Vincentian, metropolitan, and global institution with campuses in New York, Rome, and Paris. The Law School and University are committed to academic excellence and to providing an education for all people, especially those lacking economic, physical, or social advantages.  Many St. John’s Law students are the first in their families to attend law school; many are the first in their families to attend college. By providing our graduates with the skills and values to successfully participate in a global legal profession, the Law School serves as…

The Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, invites applications from entry-level and lateral candidates for up to two full-time tenured/tenure-track faculty positions to begin the 2025-2026 academic year.

We welcome applications from candidates across all areas of law, although subject areas of particular interest include: Pennsylvania, State, and Federal Constitutional Law, and Legal Research and Writing. Candidates with the ability and interest in potentially teaching other courses within the first year of legal study, particularly Contracts and Torts are preferred. Other areas of interest include Emerging Technologies, Business Law, Commercial Law, Health Law, and Employment/Labor Law. Candidates must be available to teach in-person, although some courses may include remote and/or hyflex teaching.

For additional details, see the full hiring announcement: Apply – Interfolio

The Belmont University College of Law invites applications for two tenure-track or tenured faculty positions to begin in Fall of 2025. Belmont is specifically seeking candidates in the areas of business law, intellectual property law, contract/commercial law, and law and technology courses.

The Belmont University College of Law encourages applications from people whose background, life experiences, and scholarly approaches would contribute to the diversity of our faculty, curriculum, and programs. Applicants must possess a J.D. or equivalent degree from an accredited U.S. law school and must demonstrate strong scholarly potential and a commitment to excellence in teaching.  Belmont is an EOE/AA employer.  Belmont College of Law reserves the right to exercise a preference for those candidates who support the goals and missions of the University.

If interested, please submit a letter of interest and curriculum vitae to the Chair of the Faculty Recruitment Committee, Associate Dean Deborah Farringer, using the recruitment committee’s email address – lawfaculty.recruitment@belmont.edu.  If you have questions about the position or Belmont University, please contact Associate Dean Farringer at deborah.farringer@belmont.edu.

Belmont University is a private, Christian university focusing on academic excellence and is located in the heart of Nashville, one of the fastest growing and…

This just in from friend-of-the-BLPB Arthur Laby:

We are hiring at Rutgers Law School. This position of Assistant or Associate Professor is in our Camden location, just across the river from Center City Philadelphia. Our focus is on candidates with scholarly and teaching interests in Tax, Business Organizations, Contracts and/or Constitutional Law.  Please apply here: https://jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/230914. 

Stoll Keenon Ogden PLLC’s Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) guidance, about which I posted back in June, was recently updated.  You can find the update here.  Hat tip to friend-of-the-BLPB Tom Rutledge from Stoll Keenon Odgen on this development. 

I know many are struggling to interpret and apply the CTA.  I appreciate the work firms and individual lawyers are undertaking to help enlighten that effort.  Please feel free to send me links to guidance you may have seen that you believe to be particularly useful.

Widener Law Commonwealth seeks entry-level or pre-tenure lateral faculty members to fill three or more tenure track positions starting in the 2025-2026 academic year. We have specific needs in our year-long Contracts and Property courses.  As to the rest of the teaching package, we have flexibility, but we have particular needs in the areas of Legal Methods, Administrative Law, Commercial Law, Environmental Law, and Intellectual Property.  
 
Established in 1989, Widener Law Commonwealth is an independently accredited law school within Widener University.  Located in Harrisburg, PA, the law school’s location in the capital of Pennsylvania provides impactful experiences for both our faculty and students.  
 
WLC is a dynamic community of teachers and scholars.  We pride ourselves on our dedication to our students, our engagement with teaching, and our scholarly impact.  Many of our scholars are actively engaged in law reform efforts at both the state and federal level.
 
The law school is committed to fostering an environment in which faculty, staff, and students from a variety of backgrounds, cultures, and personal experiences are welcomed and can thrive. Faculty and staff are active participants in our work to enhance diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.  We welcome applications

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StetsonLawLogoSTETSON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW seeks to fill four entry-level or lateral tenure-track positions.  Our hiring needs will focus on candidates willing and eager to extend our existing institutional strengths and help us build into new areas of excellence. We specifically seek candidates with expertise in the areas of legal research and writing, public and private international law, transactional and corporate law, advocacy, elder law, professional responsibility, data privacy, cybersecurity, and compliance. We also seek candidates who will build upon our teaching depth in all our first-year courses.

Stetson Law was Florida’s first law school, founded in 1900.  Stetson Law has a national reputation for its advocacy program, ranked #1 in the nation, and its legal writing program, ranked #3 in the nation, by U.S. News and World Report.  It also boasts renowned centers, institutes, and clinics in various fields, such as advocacy, elder law, higher education, biodiversity and the environment, legal communication, Caribbean law, and veterans law. 

Stetson Law is part of a private university, which includes a College of Arts and Sciences, a School of Music, and a School of Business Administration, the latter of which supports the law school’s joint JD/MBA program.  Stetson nurtures a vibrant intellectual…

The University of Missouri School of Law invites applications for multiple tenure-track or tenured positions. We are seeking candidates with a strong commitment to scholarship, teaching, and public service; a strong academic record; and either legal practice experience or advanced academic training. A J.D. or Ph.D. in a related field is required.
 
Our hiring needs are flexible, and we invite candidates in any subject matter to apply. We are especially interested in applicants planning to teach Property, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Environmental Law, and corporate law topics.
 
Lateral candidates may be considered for hiring under Mizzou Forward. Mizzou Forward is a transformational effort to strengthen research innovation and improve the lives of people around the world. The initiative is an investment by the University of Missouri to hire up to 150 world-class faculty over the next several years. A successful Mizzou Forward candidate is a research leader with a robust publication and citation record, national awards and/or membership in national academies and external research funding or publication of at least one book. Candidates will also be committed to student success and university service. 
 
The University of Missouri-Columbia is the flagship campus of the University of Missouri system

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The Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University invites applications for up to three entry-level or junior tenure-track or newly-tenured faculty members, to begin in Fall 2025. We seek candidates with a strong record of or potential for significant scholarship and commitment to excellence in teaching who will bring diverse experiences and perspectives to enrich our law school community. We seek candidates across all subject areas, but have particular interest in fulfilling curricular needs in Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Property, Environmental Law, and Intellectual Property.

Located on Long Island, less than thirty miles from midtown Manhattan, Hofstra Law is known as an innovator in legal education, from being one of the first schools to implement clinical education as a means of graduating practice-ready lawyers to recent advancements in experiential learning and interdisciplinary programming.  Hofstra’s strong national reputation is the product of a demonstrated commitment to attracting and supporting talented and productive faculty through summer research grants, sustained teaching load reductions, and other resources for both teaching and research initiatives. 

Applications should be submitted electronically at this link on the Hofstra portal and include the following: 

• A letter of application
• CV
• Scholarly agenda
• Proposed job talk …

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ALBANY LAW SCHOOL, in New York’s Capital City, invites applications from entry-level and lateral candidates for multiple faculty positions beginning in July 2025. We are committed to the diversity of our student body and faculty. We seek candidates with experience in teaching and mentoring students from groups historically excluded from higher education and the legal profession and whose work advances critical thinking on questions of importance to society. We welcome applications from qualified candidates across all areas and specializations, from core first-year classes to specialty upper-level courses. In addition, we have particular interest in candidates with expertise in the following primary areas: business law (including contracts, corporate, commercial and transactional law courses); clinic (including the Director of the Immigration Law Clinic and Director of a new Housing Clinic); Introduction to Lawyering. Secondary areas include: administrative law, legislation, regulation, tax, law & technology, intellectual property, criminal law, evidence, constitutional law and environmental/energy law.
As part of our unitary tenure system, tenure-track opportunities are available across all positions. In addition, Albany Law School is poised to begin new programming that will increase online opportunities for our students and our faculty. Applicants should express their potential interest in teaching in

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