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St. Mary’s University School of Law, the oldest Catholic university in the Southwest and the only law school in San Antonio, Texas, is seeking exceptional candidates for tenured and tenure-track faculty positions to start in the 2027-2028 and 2028-2029 academic years. We are building on our deep history of academic excellence and servant leadership, and we are eager to welcome new members into our vibrant intellectual community. 

We are particularly interested in candidates with outstanding academic credentials, successful practice experience, a demonstrated record of scholarly research and publication, and a dedication to teaching excellence. We place great emphasis on fostering a supportive and engaging learning environment, and we are eager to find candidates who excel in the classroom and inspire students to achieve their best.

We are open to passionate and innovative teachers and scholars in all areas, including but not limited to civil procedure, contracts, property, and legal writing. We are hiring one clinical professor in any subject area, with a preference for criminal law specialization.  

We do  have opportunities for some select Chair appointments for strong lateral candidates in the areas of business law (to include tax), international law, natural resources, and oil and gas. These include the…

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW
Location: East Lansing, MI
Start Date: August 15, 2027

Michigan State University College of Law invites applications from entry-level and lateral candidates for full-time, tenure-track faculty positions with an expected start date of August 15, 2027. We welcome applications from candidates with exceptional educational, teaching, and scholarship credentials across all areas of law, although subject areas of particular interest include Law and Technology, Indian Law, Animal Law, Administrative and Regulatory Law, Bankruptcy Law, Business Law (with a particular emphasis on Corporate Governance), Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Procedure, Evidence, Family Law, and International Law. We also seek applications from entry-level and lateral applicants to lead our Transactional/Entrepreneurship Clinic; and to serve as The Alan S. Zekelman Professor of International Human Rights Law. Finally, we seek applications from distinguished tenured faculty for The Schaefer Chair in Family Law. The College of Law seeks applicants with a commitment to excellence in teaching and scholarly achievement, in line with MSU College of Law’s recent academic and scholarly trajectory.

Michigan State University is the nation’s premier land-grant university, established in 1855. More information about the College of Law can be found at www.law.msu.edu.

Please submit application materials to:…

The ELC, Cornell’s only transactional law clinic, is in its eighth year of operation. The ELC provides pro bono transactional legal services to startup businesses and entrepreneurs who are not yet ready or able to engage paid legal counsel, but who need assistance setting the legal foundation for their businesses. The ELC’s clients include both for-profit and not-for-profit businesses that are poised to create jobs, contribute to community economic development, and promote innovation. Some clients are local in their focus, and others have the potential to have an impact far beyond New York State. Law students working

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In deleting old email messages, I found one on this job opening unopened from last month. Sorry for the delay in posting!

We’re delighted to share that Cornell is hiring a transactional clinician to be based in Ithaca in the Entrepreneurship Law Clinic and the Blassberg-Rice Center for Entrepreneurship Law. 

David Reiss recently joined Cornell’s faculty to launch a new section of the ELC at the Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island, establishing Cornell’s first New York City-based law clinic in January 2025. Our search this year is for a co-director based in Ithaca. The new hire will have full-time teaching responsibility in the ELC, working alongside David. The appointment will be to the long-term, presumptively renewable, contract track for permanent clinical faculty at Cornell Law School, with voting rights and academic leave rights consistent with the other permanent clinicians.  

The full job posting is linked and attached.  

The application deadline is September 30, but we encourage candidates to apply early. If you have any questions, feel free to contact David (david.reiss@cornell.edu) and Beth (mbl235@cornell.edu). 

Friend-of-the-BLPB Will Moon has notified us that the University of Maryland is hiring a tenure-track or tenured position for its small business clinic.

The advertisement is linked below:
Job Description – Tenure-Track Professor, Small Business Clinic (250000O9)

Will suggests that the best way to apply is through the Taleo link found in the advertisement. While the position mentions “tenure track,” Will confirms that the committee is reviewing applications from both pre-tenured and tenured faculty.

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/…

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…

The first webinar hosted by the Association of American Law Schools Section on Leadership for the 2025 membership year is scheduled for Thursday (March 6) from 1 pm – 2 pm ET/12 pm – 1 pm CT/11 am – 12 pm MT/10 am – 11 am PT.  The speaker is Elsbeth Magilton, Lecturer and Director of Externships at the University of Nebraska College of Law.  She will be speaking on “Law Students Learning to Lead through Non-Profit Board Service.”  The abstract for her talk is set forth below.  

This presentation showcases the work of attorneys on nonprofit boards, how the Nebraska Law Nonprofit Board Service Program has succeeded at Nebraska, and what challenges it is still overcoming. The program places law students with an area nonprofit board of directors for an academic year to observe, support, and engage with the nonprofit governance process, under the mentorship of an attorney board member. The Nonprofit Board Service Program “courses + shadow experience” model is an opportunity for students to learn about board service, engage with area attorneys and nonprofits, and reflect on how they can use their developing professional skills to benefit and lead in their community.

The session will…

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW invites applications for a full-time tenure, tenure-track, or long-term contract faculty position to direct our Entrepreneurial Law Clinic.  The faculty member will join a vibrant clinical program that has 15 full-time clinicians who teach, practice, and lead. We welcome interest both from those new to clinical legal teaching and from experienced clinicians; an appointment could be made to Associate Clinical Professor, Associate Professor, Clinical Professor, or Professor.

We seek dynamic candidates who are excited about clinical legal education, deeply committed to the academic enterprise, and able to collaborate with diverse groups inside and outside our university. We also welcome candidates who possess the capacity and inclination to support and advance law reform.  Commitment to principles of experiential learning and clinical pedagogy is central to the position; those who are not already conversant with these principles should be committed to developing in this domain.  The faculty member will have primary responsibility teaching and supervising students in the Entrepreneurial Clinic at our in-house law firm (Lincoln Square Legal Services, Inc.).  They will also have primary responsibility for selecting clients and matters and structuring the overall design and goals of the clinic.

In its current form, the highly…