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MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW HIRING ANNOUNCEMENT

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.

Established in 1855, Michigan State University is the nation’s premier land-grant university, offering more than 400 academic programs across diverse disciplines. MSU is known for its commitment 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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Tina L. Stark Emory Law, October 2007

Transactional lawyering and the education of transactional lawyers has been transformed by Tina L. Stark (Weisenfeld). You may have known her for her wonderful books–Drafting Contracts: How & Why Lawyers Do What They Do and Negotiating and Drafting Contract Boilerplate are on my bookshelves and those of so many others. You may have heard her speak at a conference or symposium.

Yet, many of us also knew Tina on a more personal level. Some of us had her as an instructor or as a colleague. Long a consultant and advisor to law schools, bar associations, and legal employers on transactional legal education and training, Tina also held full-time administrative and teaching appointments at Emory University School of Law and Boston University School of Law and was a visitor at Fordham University School of Law. Earlier in her career, she was an adjunct law professor at Fordham Law and the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University.

Tina passed away earlier this week. But her presence will continue to be felt in so many ways. She and I initially bonded over our not only our love of teaching plainly…

The William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in Business Law to begin in Fall 2026. We seek candidates with a demonstrated record or strong potential for excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service.

We welcome applicants whose research and teaching interests include business associations, corporate law, commercial law, securities regulation, entrepreneurship, or related areas. The successful candidate will join a collegial and interdisciplinary faculty committed to teaching excellence, community engagement, and advancing justice in Hawaiʻi and beyond.
 
Applications must be submitted through the University of Hawaiʻi’s official Work at UH portal.

For full consideration, please apply by November 12, 2025.
 
For inquiries, please contact Professor Alina Ng Boyte at aboyte@hawaii.edu.

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). 

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/…

Earlier this week, The University of Tennessee Frank Winston College of Law (yes, a new name, with a great story behind it!) announced my appointment as the incoming director of the Clayton Center for Entrepreneurial Law. You can find the full story here. I posted the news on social media earlier in the week. Thanks to those of you who commented and contacted me in response to those posts.

As I said there and have told many of you, I am truly excited to take on this new role for the academic program in which I have worked for 25 years–the program that brought me to Tennessee and the College of Law in 2000 after nearly 15 years of practice up in Boston, Massachusetts. I assume the directorship on August 1. I am grateful to the center’s interim director, Brian Krumm, who has ably managed the center since the 2024 retirement of longtime director George Kuney.

The Clayton Center is rooted in entrepreneurship, being the namesake of James L. Clayton, a 1964 graduate of the Winston College of Law who is the founder of Knoxville-based Clayton Homes, Inc., now a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

I was quoted earlier this week (Monday) in a Business Insider article, “Elon Musk has a lot to gain if Trump wins. A Harris presidency is more uncertain.” The article is behind a paywall (sorry!), but at the time this is being posted, an aol.com version is available. In any event, this post offers my two quotes with some context.

On the potential for bias against Elon Musk in a Harris administration:

“One would hope that governmental units would be immune to political pressures,” Joan MacLeod Heminway, a law professor at the University of Tennessee, told BI. “But people in those units are humans and may inadvertently scrutinize proposals coming from entities owned or controlled by Elon Musk.”

In response to a question about the inclusion of Elon Musk in a Trump administration:

“There are ethical rules mandating compliance with various types of obligations, including conflict-of-interest reporting, for certain types of government positions,” Heminway said. “Elon Musk may not want to take on these obligations.”

Now, we will wait and see what actually transpires. The article notes that “Trump has already incorporated some of Musk’s policy proposals into his campaign, with plans to establish a government efficiency commission…

We are excited to welcome our colleague Erik Gerding, the Director of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Division of Corporation Finance, together with members of his staff, to The University of Tennessee College of Law a week from today. Information about the visit is included below.  If you are in the neighborhood, stop by!

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