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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

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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Out with the old; in with the new.

It’s almost time for a new academic year to start. Like spring, it can be a time of renewal. That is certainly true for me this year.

With my new position as director of our business law program at Tennessee Winston Law, I got a new office. My office move has provided me with many opportunities for reflection. They have been bittersweet.

The pictures above are of the office I inhabited on and off for over 15 years, taken just after I finished moving my last things out. Most of my colleagues thought I would never leave this place. Truthfully, I didn’t ever really got a chance to properly move in originally. (Due to some poor planning and last-minute shenanigans, my assistant was forced to move my books and boxes into the office while I was at the Association of American Law Schools annual meeting one year.) The mess that my office became just rolled on from there . . . .

Some of what I found in the move has been quite amusing. I marveled at all the hard copies of bar reference letters, tenure letters, etc. that I had in…

Institute for Law & Economics 
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School  

FOURTH ANNUAL  
JUNIOR FACULTY BUSINESS & 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 Fourth Annual Junior Faculty Business & Financial Law Workshop. The Workshop will be held in person on January 23, 2026 at or near Penn Carey Law.  

The Workshop supports and recognizes the work of pre-tenured scholars in tenure-track positions in the business and financial fields, including corporations, securities, finance, accounting, banking, bankruptcy, tax, and general business law, 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 to 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 pre-tenured scholars, faculty from Penn Carey Law, The Wharton School, and other institutions, practitioners…

Loyola University New Orleans College of Law is now accepting applications for several tenure-track or tenured positions to begin August 1, 2026. Loyola’s curricular needs include Arbitration, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law, Employment Law, Environmental Law, Family Law, Health Law, Immigration Law, Intellectual Property, Legal Ethics and related courses. If you are interested in applying, please submit curriculum vitae and cover letter to leonhard@loyno.edu.  All ranks will be considered.


About the College of Law
The College of Law is located in one of the most culturally diverse cities in the United States, with unique cuisine, museums, historical sites, and a flourishing arts and music community. New Orleans is the seat of the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, Louisiana Supreme Court, Louisiana Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal, as well as other lower courts. The College of Law has a student population of approximately 500 students, over forty faculty members, active clinics that have spearheaded numerous social justice reform efforts, and summer abroad programs. Its location in Louisiana, one of the world’s best known “mixed jurisdictions,” provides unique opportunities for comparative and international law scholarship. Loyola University is…

Business lawyers understand that corporate directors and officers owe fiduciary duties to the firm. These duties include responsibilities to provide oversight, which are colloquially known under Delaware law (and beyond) as Caremark duties, based on a flagship Delaware Supreme Court opinion, In re Caremark Int’l Inc. Derivative Litig., 698 A.2d 959 (Del. Ch. 1996). Although historically understood by many (yours truly included) as either a separate fiduciary duty of good faith or a component of the fiduciary duty of care, oversight obligations under Delaware law currently are classified as a component of the fiduciary duty of loyalty. According to the Delaware Supreme Court, “because a showing of bad faith conduct … is essential to establish director oversight liability, the fiduciary duty violated by that conduct is the duty of loyalty.” Stone ex rel. AmSouth Bancorporation v. Ritter, 911 A.2d 362, 370 (Del. 2006).  

Successful Caremark claims are difficult to plead and prove, given the relatively high burden of showing bad faith conduct. Historically, almost all claims alleging a breach of Caremark duties in Delaware courts have been dismissed before trial for failure to state a claim. Recently, a case involving Meta Platforms, Inc. directors and officers, including Mark…

The University of Iowa College of Law seeks applicants for one or more tenure-track faculty positions. We have a strong interest in applicants who possess excellence in their academic and professional backgrounds. Entry-level and lateral candidates are welcome to apply.

The College of Law’s primary hiring interest is in business, corporate, and commercial law.

Consistent with the mission and responsibilities of a top-tier public research university, we are interested in candidates who are recognized scholars and teachers and who will participate actively in the intellectual life of the College of Law. In addition, we desire candidates with a demonstrated ability to maintain effective and respectful working relationships with the campus community to uphold a standard of cultural competency and respect for differences. We also desire candidates who would bring significant new scholarly strengths to the College of Law. Candidates who can contribute to these goals are encouraged to apply and to identify their strengths in these areas.

To apply, candidates should submit a letter of interest, CV, a list of three references, a law school transcript, and teaching evaluations (if applicable) through Jobs@UIOWA, https://jobs.uiowa.edu, refer to Requisition #75664.

Successful candidates will be required to self-disclose any misconduct history or…

The University of California College of the Law, San Francisco (“UC Law San Francisco,” formerly “UC Hastings”) seeks to hire an entry-level or lateral tenure-track or tenured faculty member to be a productive and impactful scholar and to establish and teach an in- house transactional clinic. As part of UC Law’s Community Justice Clinics, the clinic should serve disenfranchised and disempowered clients or communities while teaching students about the law, legal practice and the role of the law in the quest for social justice. The start date for the position is July 1, 2026. We are interested in applications from entry-level candidates and from professors with clinical teaching experience in the academy.

Applicants should have a serious interest in UC Law San Francisco and living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Candidates should send a CV, statement of research and teaching interests, a one- to two-page transactional clinic proposal, prior course evaluations (from the three most recent years of teaching, if available), and representative publications in .pdf format to Professor of Law Abe Cable, Appointments Committee Chair (appointments2025@uclawsf.edu), with the subject heading “Faculty Position.” The clinic proposal should address in appropriate detail the candidate’s vision for the clients…