The Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, invites applications from entry-level and lateral candidates for up to two full-time tenured/tenure-track faculty positions to begin the 2025-2026 academic year.

We welcome applications from candidates across all areas of law, although subject areas of particular interest include: Pennsylvania, State, and Federal Constitutional Law, and Legal Research and Writing. Candidates with the ability and interest in potentially teaching other courses within the first year of legal study, particularly Contracts and Torts are preferred. Other areas of interest include Emerging Technologies, Business Law, Commercial Law, Health Law, and Employment/Labor Law. Candidates must be available to teach in-person, although some courses may include remote and/or hyflex teaching.

For additional details, see the full hiring announcement: Apply – Interfolio

The Belmont University College of Law invites applications for two tenure-track or tenured faculty positions to begin in Fall of 2025. Belmont is specifically seeking candidates in the areas of business law, intellectual property law, contract/commercial law, and law and technology courses.

The Belmont University College of Law encourages applications from people whose background, life experiences, and scholarly approaches would contribute to the diversity of our faculty, curriculum, and programs. Applicants must possess a J.D. or equivalent degree from an accredited U.S. law school and must demonstrate strong scholarly potential and a commitment to excellence in teaching.  Belmont is an EOE/AA employer.  Belmont College of Law reserves the right to exercise a preference for those candidates who support the goals and missions of the University.

If interested, please submit a letter of interest and curriculum vitae to the Chair of the Faculty Recruitment Committee, Associate Dean Deborah Farringer, using the recruitment committee’s email address – lawfaculty.recruitment@belmont.edu.  If you have questions about the position or Belmont University, please contact Associate Dean Farringer at deborah.farringer@belmont.edu.

Belmont University is a private, Christian university focusing on academic excellence and is located in the heart of Nashville, one of the fastest growing and most culturally rich cities in the country.  Belmont is the second largest private university in Tennessee with approximately 9,000 students. Belmont students come from every state, more than 35 countries, and all faiths. The Belmont faculty is dedicated to teaching, service, and active engagement in scholarship.  Ranked 91st among ABA-Accredited law schools by U.S. News and World Report, Belmont Law’s median LSAT/GPA for the 124 students who entered the law school in August 2023 were 160 and 3.77 (75th percentile: 162 and 3.91; 25th percentile: 157 and 3.56).  Belmont’s ultimate bar passage rate for 2018 and 2019 was 100%, one of only a few law schools in the country to have achieved a perfect pass rate in those years, and Belmont Law had the highest pass rate in the state of Tennessee in July of 2023.

This just in from friend-of-the-BLPB Arthur Laby:

We are hiring at Rutgers Law School. This position of Assistant or Associate Professor is in our Camden location, just across the river from Center City Philadelphia. Our focus is on candidates with scholarly and teaching interests in Tax, Business Organizations, Contracts and/or Constitutional Law.  Please apply here: https://jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/230914. 

Stoll Keenon Ogden PLLC’s Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) guidance, about which I posted back in June, was recently updated.  You can find the update here.  Hat tip to friend-of-the-BLPB Tom Rutledge from Stoll Keenon Odgen on this development. 

I know many are struggling to interpret and apply the CTA.  I appreciate the work firms and individual lawyers are undertaking to help enlighten that effort.  Please feel free to send me links to guidance you may have seen that you believe to be particularly useful.

Widener Law Commonwealth seeks entry-level or pre-tenure lateral faculty members to fill three or more tenure track positions starting in the 2025-2026 academic year. We have specific needs in our year-long Contracts and Property courses.  As to the rest of the teaching package, we have flexibility, but we have particular needs in the areas of Legal Methods, Administrative Law, Commercial Law, Environmental Law, and Intellectual Property.  
 
Established in 1989, Widener Law Commonwealth is an independently accredited law school within Widener University.  Located in Harrisburg, PA, the law school’s location in the capital of Pennsylvania provides impactful experiences for both our faculty and students.  
 
WLC is a dynamic community of teachers and scholars.  We pride ourselves on our dedication to our students, our engagement with teaching, and our scholarly impact.  Many of our scholars are actively engaged in law reform efforts at both the state and federal level.
 
The law school is committed to fostering an environment in which faculty, staff, and students from a variety of backgrounds, cultures, and personal experiences are welcomed and can thrive. Faculty and staff are active participants in our work to enhance diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.  We welcome applications from members of historically underrepresented groups.
 
We are looking for candidates with strong academic backgrounds, commitment to excellence in teaching, and demonstrated potential to be productive scholars.  Candidates must possess at least a JD degree or its equivalent.  
 
Application can be submitted by submitting a cover letter, CV, and list of three references to the appointments committee at clsappointments@wumail.onmicrosoft.com.  Please contact Professor Robyn Meadows, Appointments Committee Chair (rlmeadows@widener.edu), with any questions.
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 and is one of only 33 public universities in the country belonging to the Association of American Universities, a group of elite research universities. As both a research and land grant university, we have extraordinary opportunities for interdisciplinary interaction. In addition, Columbia is a wonderful college town halfway between St. Louis and Kansas City that is regularly ranked as one of the most livable cities in the country.
 
Application Procedure: Review of applications will begin August 15, 2024 and continue until the position is filled. To apply, please submit a cover letter, CV, and references for job ID 52095 at hr.missouri.edu/job-openings. Inquiries should be directed to Associate Dean Sandra Sperino at sandra.sperino@missouri.edu or 573-882-1799.
 
Additional information about the School of Law is available at www.law.missouri.edu. The University of Missouri is an equal opportunity/ADA institution. The University of Missouri is fully committed to achieving the goal of an inclusive academic community of faculty, staff and students. We seek individuals who are committed to this goal and our core campus values of respect, responsibility, discovery and excellence. To request ADA accommodations, please call the Disability Inclusion and ADA Compliance Manager at 573-884-7278.

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 community, situated on a beautiful campus, just minutes from Florida’s Gulf Coast, in the Tampa Bay area, the nation’s 17th largest metro area. We encourage potential applicants to visit our website at https://www.stetson.edu/portal/law/ to learn more about our school, our community, and our programs. 

Stetson encourages applications from women, persons of color, LGBTQ+ candidates, and others who will contribute to our stimulating and diverse cultural and intellectual environment. Stetson’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy is available at: https://www.stetson.edu/law/career/nondiscrimination-policy-for-employers.php.

Applicants should email a cover letter that explains your teaching and scholarly interests, attaching a current curriculum vitae and contact information for at least three professional references.  Please send the email to Professors Rebecca Morgan and Stacey-Rae Simcox at facultyappointments@law.stetson.edu.  You may also apply by paper mail to Professors Morgan and Simcox, Stetson University College of Law, 1401 61st Street South, Gulfport, FL 33707.  The Faculty Appointments Committee will continue to review applications until positions are filled. 

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 topic or paper

Questions may be directed to Alafair Burke and Dan Greenwood, Co-Chairs of the Faculty Appointments Committee, at Alafair.S.Burke@hofstra.edu and Daniel.Greenwood@hofstra.edu, respectively.

This week I just direct your attention to various items.

First, the NYSE recently proposed a rule change that would exempt closed end funds from the requirement of holding annual shareholder meetings.  Closed-end funds are frequently the subject of activist attacks – here I blogged about a Second Circuit case that struck down a takeover defense measure in a Nuveen fund – so a rule change here would be, you know, significant.  Anyway, here is the link to the comments the SEC has received, and the one I found particularly useful, was by the Working Group on Market Efficiency and Investor Protection in Closed-End Funds, which is a collection of law and business professors.

Second, Project 2025 is all in the news these days as a preview of what a second Trump administration might look like, and it turns out, there are proposals for changes to the federal securities laws.

We have the usual conservative stuff, like, get rid of disclosure requirements pertaining to “social, ideological, political, or ‘human capital’ information that is not material to investors’ financial, economic, or pecuniary risks or returns.”  Obviously, the issue here, unaddressed in the document, is that most commenters would agree that only financially material information should be required; the disagreement is over what that means.  And that becomes very obvious in the document, because it singles out the climate change disclosure rules as expensive and therefore ripe for repeal, but it never argues that they require disclosure of immaterial information (though to be fair, the document is full of proposals to repeal climate change-related regulation, and I haven’t read all of it; maybe somewhere else there’s an argument that climate change is financially immaterial).

Anyway, there’s also a proposal that three SEC commissioners be permitted to override the Chair with respect to placing items on the agenda, and pace Jarkesy, they’d allow defendants to choose whether their cases are heard in federal court or administrative courts (which incidentally seems similar to a proposal by Christopher Walker and David Zaring, though their paper is not cited). 

Digital assets would be commodities unless the holder has a contractual right to a share of earnings, or, in the case of liquidation, a claim on the assets.

They’d also simplify firm categories to public, private, and small (based on public float or – interestingly, beneficial owners rather than street name owners), and remove accreditation requirements.  Which as I understand it would functionally mean that companies could choose whether to file registration statements or not.  Intriguingly, however, they do propose to:

Abolish Rule 144 and other regulations that restrict securities resales and instead require a company that has sold securities to provide sufficient current information to the market to permit reasonable investment decisions and secondary sales.

I’m not sure how that proposal interacts with the earlier proposal to segment the market cleanly into public, private, and small firms, but there you go. 

Third, a historian at the University of Delaware, Professor Dael Norwood, is researching Delaware’s history of permitting corporations to vote in local elections; he’s blogged about his findings here and here.

And finally, here is a story about how the new trend of retail stores locking up products is backfiring, because it makes it harder for customers to actually, you know, buy stuff.  What intrigues me is how it seems as though stores are making these decisions based more on vibes than actual data, and rejecting the obvious solutions like hiring more staff to police the aisles (or even just to open the cabinets).  Efficient markets are supposed to force corporate managers to make more reasoned choices, no?  But apparently the heuristic “employees are an expense, do everything but hire people” is very tough to combat.  Even at companies like Walmart, which adopt pay for performance metrics.