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Boston University Professor of Law /Associate Professor of Law, School of Law in BOSTON, Massachusetts
BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, a top-tier law school with an international reputation, is a community of leading legal scholars, teachers, students, and alumni, who are dedicated to providing one of the finest legal educations in the world. Since our doors opened in 1872, we have admitted and enrolled accomplished students to our program regardless of their race, sex, and religion. The breadth and depth of our curriculum and scholarship as well as our innovative spirit are distinctive in U.S. legal education.
Boston University School of Law invites applications from both entry-level and experienced candidates for multiple positions with a projected start date of July 1, 2025. The search is broad and not limited to particular subjects, but we have especially strong teaching needs in Civil Procedure, Contracts, Criminal Procedure, Property, Trust and Estates, American Indian Law, AI Regulation, Professional Responsibility, Alternative Dispute Resolution, International Law and International Development & Project Finance, Intellectual Property, Bankruptcy, Housing Law, Sexuality/Gender/Gender Identity and the Law, and Land Use Law.
Required Skills
Experienced candidates should have a distinguished record of scholarly achievement, effective teaching, active service, and a distinguished record of inclusion. Junior lateral and entry-level, tenure-track candidates should have demonstrated potential for high scholarly achievement, teaching excellence, service, and a record of inclusion. We are additionally seeking candidates for the Director of our Student Innovations Law Clinic (Clinical). Please see that individual posting for a full description.
Our university community welcomes differences, encourage open-minded exploration, and upholds freedom of expression. At Boston University School of Law, we are dedicated to building a just, inclusive, and engaged community of faculty, staff, and students. We recognize we have more work to do to achieve this vision. Boston University School of Law is committed not only to the ideals of faculty diversity and inclusion but also to the work of creating and implementing practices that combat exclusion and inequity by race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, religion, and other identities subject to historical subordination. We also strive to foster a more inclusive intellectual culture that represents and encourages a broad range of intellectual traditions and approaches to the law. We welcome expressions of interest from applicants of all identities, intellectual traditions, and perspectives.
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Applicants should send a letter of interest and a C.V. as soon as they are able to the Faculty Appointments Committee at lawappts@bu.edu. Applications are being reviewed immediately and on a continuing basis, with priority given to those who submit early in the fall semester and are submitted prior to October 1, 2024. All open faculty positions are pending budgetary approval.
To learn more about the law school, visit our website at www.bu.edu/law.
BU conducts a background check on all final candidates for certain faculty and staff positions. The background check includes contacting the final candidate’s current and previous employer(s) to ask whether, in the last seven years, there has been a substantiated finding of misconduct violating that employer’s applicable sexual misconduct policies. To implement this process, the University requires a final candidate to complete and sign the form entitled “Authorization to Release Information” after execution of an offer letter.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, natural or protective hairstyle, religion, sex, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, military service, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, or because of marital, parental, or veteran status. We are a VEVRAA Federal Contractor .
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