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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

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 …

ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE/PROFESSOR OF LAW
 
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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THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY ROSENBERG COLLEGE OF LAW invites applications for an entry-level or lateral, tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, beginning in August 2025. The College is seeking to fill needs in several areas of law, up to two faculty positions this year. We are interested in considering candidates who teach and/or research in Commercial Law, Contracts, Secured Transactions, and Bankruptcy as well as others not included in this list of priorities. We may consider an applicant for a full Professor position. The Rosenberg College of Law is an important part of a major research university and offers a collegial and supportive atmosphere for its faculty, staff, and students. Applicants should have a J.D. or equivalent law degree, a record of high academic achievement, and a demonstrated potential for excellence in teaching and in scholarly productivity. Salary for this position will be commensurate with experience.

To receive consideration for this position, applicants must apply through the University of Kentucky’s Integrated Employment System at https://ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/540069 where they can submit a letter of application and resume. Please send any questions to Faculty Appointments Committee Chair Alan Kluegel, alan.kluegel@uky.edu, or by mail at the University of…

Institute for Law & Economics
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

THIRD ANNUAL JUNIOR FACULTY
BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL LAW WORKSHOP

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

            The Institute for Law & Economics (ILE) at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School is pleased to announce its second annual Junior Faculty Business and Financial Law Workshop.  The Workshop will be held in person on November 22, 2024 at Penn Carey Law.

            The Workshop supports and recognizes the work of untenured legal scholars in the business and financial fields, including accounting, banking, bankruptcy, corporations, economics, finance, tax and securities, while promoting interactions with such scholars, selected tenured faculty and practitioners.  By providing a forum for the exchange of creative ideas in these areas, ILE also aims to encourage new and innovative scholarship in the business and financial arena.

            Approximately 6-8 papers will be chosen from those submitted for presentation at the Workshop.  One or more senior scholars and practitioners will comment on each paper, followed by a general discussion of each paper among all participants.  The Workshop audience will include invited untenured scholars, faculty from Penn Carey Law, The Wharton School, and…

The School of Law at Texas Tech University invites applications for a full-time, 9-month tenure-track Professor of Law position to begin in August of 2025.  The position is open to both entry-level candidates and candidates who are on the tenure-track or tenured at another school.  Candidates who satisfy Texas Tech University’s requirements to be hired with tenure will also be eligible to hold the Frank McDonald Endowed Professorship in business law.

Required Qualifications

In line with TTU’s strategic priorities to engage and empower a diverse student body, enable innovative research and creative activities, and transform lives and communities through outreach and engaged scholarship, applicants should have experience or demonstrated potential for working with diverse student populations at the undergraduate and/or graduate levels within individual or across the areas of teaching, research/creative activity, and service.

Specific required qualifications are:

  1. Candidates should have a J.D.;
  2. Candidates should have a demonstrated potential for excellence in research, teaching, and service; and
  3. Candidates should have demonstrated potential for excellence in the areas of Contracts and in corporate/business law, such as Business Entities, Securities Regulation, Mergers & Acquisitions, and related courses.

Preferred Qualifications

In addition to the required qualifications, individuals with the following preferred qualifications are…

The University of Oregon School of Law invites applications from entry-level and lateral candidates for two tenure-track positions at the rank of either assistant or associate professor:

Each position will start August 2025. Candidates of all viewpoints and employing any research methodology or approach are welcome to apply.

To apply for either position, applicants should submit (1) a letter of interest; (2) a current resume or CV; (3) a description of their research agenda; (4) a statement addressing their potential contribution(s) to diversity, equity and inclusion (see next paragraph); and (5) a list of references. To ensure consideration, application materials should be submitted by August 21, 2024, although applications will be accepted until the positions are filled.

As part of the application process, applicants must submit a statement about promoting equity, inclusion, and diversity in their professional careers. In evaluating such statements, the law school will consider an applicant’s awareness of inequities and challenges faced by students and faculty belonging to underrepresented or disadvantaged groups; track record (commensurate with career stage) of activities that reduce barriers in education or research for students and faculty belonging…

UNIVERSITY of MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY
SCHOOL of LAW

Job Description

The UMKC School of Law seeks to hire for an entry level or lateral tenure-track or tenured faculty position in Business Law and related fields, which will begin in Fall 2025. The School of Law is looking for faculty members with a strong commitment to educating lawyers for the twenty-first century and those who will actively participate in our collegial, collaborative community. We encourage applications from candidates who would add diversity to our faculty.

UMKC offers a wide range of traditional Business Law courses and also several projects-based and experiential learning courses and programs, some of which are interdisciplinary and involve interactions with departments in UMKC’s Henry W. Bloch School of Management and other academic units. As part of the J.D. program, students may earn a Business and Entrepreneurial Law Emphasis. Additionally, students with potential interest in business-related fields are presented with a variety of skills training options through a team-taught Transactional Lawyering Skills Lab course and other simulation courses, an Entrepreneurial Legal Services Clinic, an Intellectual Property Clinic, and competitions, internships, externships, and supervised independent study opportunities.

One component of the faculty position would be teaching a Business Organizations course.

We do not often talk or write about the scholarship our students produce.  A number of my students have won prizes for their work; more have seen their work published (in one case I know of, three times!).  I wish I had said more about all of that as it was happening.

Today, I want to promote the work of a rising 3L that I am working with on a project.  He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy.  His name is Caleb Atkins.

Caleb recently completed work on an article in the area of healthcare regulation, a big topic in the State of Tennessee, as you may know.  Healthcare is a big business in Tennessee.  Many of our students get jobs in that field. 

I became interested in Caleb’s research while he was working on it because of my knowledge of the merger that underlies and inspired his inquiries.  The consolidation of healthcare facilities in various parts of the United States can have alarming effects on people.  His article provides illustrations.  I just love that Caleb has taken on this work as a student.  Months ago, I asked if I could share his work…