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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

 Ave Maria School of Law seeks applicants for an entry-level tenure-track position to begin in the 2026-2027 academic year.  In particular, we seek faculty teaching in the 1L areas of Contracts and Property, which at Ave Maria involve significant student contact. Candidates may also be requested to teach a section of business law courses such as Business Organizations or Commercial Law from time to time. Applicants must have a Juris Doctorate or equivalent degree and a strong academic record.  Responsibilities will include teaching, scholarship, and service to the Law School and community.

Ave Maria offers students a distinctive legal education marked by the integration of the Catholic faith and the law. Students are trained to reflect critically on the law and to understand that all areas of legal practice serve the common good. The Law School emphasizes the importance of faith and community among its faculty, staff, and students, and desires applicants attracted by, and supportive of its mission. The Law School community is small but close-knit and seeks faculty members who will participate in, and contribute to, its continued growth.

Ave Maria School of Law recognizes the inherent value and dignity of all members of the human family. The…

From Mirit Eyal:

The University of Alabama School of Law is seeking a Clinical Assistant Professor in Business Law to serve as Director of the Entrepreneurship Clinic.

We are looking for candidates with significant practice experience in areas directly related to entrepreneurship, startups, or small business law. We will also consider those with adjacent practice experience (including tax law) that can effectively transfer into the clinic setting. Candidates with a business or tax related LLM and direct experience in formal entrepreneurship, startups, and small business practice will be strongly preferred.

The position announcement and application details can be found here:  careers.ua.edu/jobs/…

Position Overview

This is a faculty search for up to two entry-level or lateral candidates open as to the rank upon the qualifications of the candidate and the needs of the college.

Performance Objectives

The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law seeks to hire up to two entry-level or untenured lateral candidates who focus on (1) corporate law, including with scholarly interests in AI, (2) intellectual property, including with scholarly interest in AI, or (3) constitutional law and complementary areas.

The positions will begin in the 2026-2027 academic year.

Education and Experience Requirements

Required:

  • Juris Doctor (JD) or equivalent education
  • Experience in (1) corporate law, including with scholarly interests in AI, (2) intellectual property, including with scholarly interests in AI, or (3) constitutional law and complementary areas.

How to Apply

To be considered, please submit your application electronically via Workday at https://osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/job/Columbus-Campus/Open-Faculty-Search_R133644-1.

Required application materials:

Cover letter
Curriculum Vitae (CV)
Statement of Research
Statement of Teaching and Mentoring

The above items must be added as attachments to your application at the time that you submit your application in Workday.  The application deadline is August 29, 2025 at midnight.

Additional Information

The College

 The Ohio State University Michael E.

I recently had the privilege of jotting on an insightful article written by friend-of-the-BLPB Kish Parella (Kishanthi Parella, Corporate Governance & International Law, 76 Ala. L. Rev. 417 (2024)). You can find the jot here. Read it for a summary of the article’s thesis and impact. But my bottom line is this:

Parella’s work is compelling at the current moment given U.S. and global uncertainties regarding judicial and governmental enforcement. In addition to the earlier mentioned tariff wars, armed conflicts between Russia and Ukraine and in Gaza represent potentially large destabilizing forces in international political and economic relations that may impact the existence or effectiveness of traditional adjudicative and regulatory enforcement. Parella’s work suggests that stakeholder governance may provide a pragmatic and valuable way forward to better ensure corporate compliance with international law and, as a result, transnational corporate financial and operational sustainability.

It is a good read, full of interesting and consequential observations relevant to business associations law and international law (which is an intersection that Kish’s work often explores).

NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW invites applications for anticipated openings for one or more entry-level tenure-track faculty positions beginning August 2026.

Duties include engaging in high-quality teaching and research, as well as being an active participant in law-school and university service.

Qualifications include a J.D. degree from an ABA-accredited law school; ability to engage in high-quality teaching; ability to engage in high-quality research; and ability to be an active participant in law school and university service.

Preferred qualifications include a record of scholarly publication, teaching experience (particularly in a law school), legal-practice experience, a strong law-school record, law-journal membership, and clerkship experience.

We are particularly, but not exclusively, interested in candidates to teach torts, property, business law, immigration, or health courses.

If you wish to apply or have questions, please contact Professor David Rosenfeld, Chair of the Appointments Committee, at niucol@niu.edu. Preference will be given to applications received by October 1, 2025, though applications will be accepted until the position or positions are filled.

To be officially considered for the position or positions, a cover letter, résumé, and contact information for three current professional references will be required to be uploaded to NIU’s applicant-tracking system.

NIU Law is…

This just popped into my mailbox earlier today and is worth broad distribution. Thanks to Terri Pulley Radwan for passing this along.

The Stetson Business Law Review’s annual symposium, to be held in February 2026, will focus on Real Property Law. Information regarding the symposium and proposal submissions are attached. Please consider a submission if you write in the area, and please forward to colleagues who might be interested in participating in the symposium. You may reach me at radwan@law.stetson.edu with any questions.

THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY ROSENBERG COLLEGE OF LAW invites applications to fill three regular title series tenure-track faculty positions at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, beginning in August 2026. The positions will be 9-month appointments corresponding with the University’s fall and spring. The College welcomes applications from candidates across all areas of law and particularly from persons whose teaching interests span multiple subjects. Contracts, business law, and commercial law are among the subjects sought. 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. Successful applicants will be expected to distribute their work effort as follows: 45% of effort into teaching, 45% of effort into research, and 10% of effort into service. We are interested in applicants with a wide variety of professional and academic experiences and backgrounds. Salary for this position will be commensurate with experience.  

To receive consideration for this position…

Tenured Faculty – Cornell Law School

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.

Cornell Law School invites applications from experienced candidates for one or more senior-level faculty positions commencing in the 2026-2027 academic year. Particular focus will be given…

Suffolk University Law School in Boston seeks to fill an entry-level, tenure-track faculty position, starting in 2026-2027.  We seek candidates with strong academic and professional backgrounds who show promise of high achievement in scholarship, teaching, and service. We welcome future colleagues who would contribute to any of our faculty’s broad research perspectives, including quantitative or qualitative empiricism; critical, historical, comparative, or philosophical approaches; and doctrinal or policy analysis. Our search will focus on candidates with a primary interest in Tax Law, but we will also consider  a candidate’s potential to contribute to our curricular needs in other areas, including Criminal Law, Labor & Employment Law, Property Law, Torts, and our Concentrations.

Although we will be considering candidates through the AALS Faculty Appointments Register, we encourage candidates with a particular interest in Suffolk Law to submit a direct application through our Jobvite page as soon as possible, as we will begin reviewing applications immediately. Candidates should include in their Jobvite application a curriculum vitae and research agenda, with a cover letter addressed to Professors Erin Braatz and Joshua Weishart, Co-Chairs of the Appointments Committee.

Suffolk University does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, religion, national origin, sex, gender…

Candidates must complete the online application which requires creating an account, uploading a resume or CV, and providing basic demographic information. In addition, applicants should submit a cover letter, a current CV, a published or unpublished academic article, a brief research agenda, and an indication of teaching interests (if not listed on the CV) to the chair of

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