Lecturer in Law, School of Law

Lecturer in Law, School of Law
£42,149 - £50,296 per annum

Department

Ranked 3rd in the UK for Research Power (Times Higher Education research power measure, Research Excellence Framework 2021), Essex Law School is recognised across the world for taking excellence in research and excellence in education equally seriously. As one of the largest law schools in the UK, we offer a wide range of courses to our students. Alongside our single-honours LLB, we deliver joint LLBs with various other subjects such as human rights, politics, philosophy, business, finance, and criminology and run an award-winning joint English and French law degree. At the postgraduate level, we have courses in subjects including human rights (both LLMs and interdisciplinary MAs), business and commercial law, international trade law, maritime law and international law. We have launched an LLM Corporate Responsibility and Business Law programme. The appointee will demonstrate a commitment to providing an engaging, innovative curriculum that meets the modern needs of our diverse student body.

Duties of the Role

The School of Law is recruiting a lecturer join our diverse community of scholars, who will be able to contribute to teaching of corporate responsibility, business law and corporate governance. An ability to also contribute to teaching in Contract Law on the LLB or Commercial Conflict of Law on the postgraduate curriculum is desirable. The successful candidate will deliver innovative and engaging teaching, supervision and learning support to our students, select appropriate methods of assessment and feedback to learners, supervise student projects, and undertake leadership duties. They will also produce high-quality research in their area of legal expertise.  

Skills and qualifications required

Applicants will have a relevant doctoral level research degree or equivalent professional experience/practice or be close to completion of a PhD, as well as having an undergraduate/postgraduate degree in law (or equivalent professional experience). They will have experience in teaching at undergraduate/postgraduate levels, or demonstrable potential to engage in teaching and learning support in engaging and innovative ways.

A full list of essential requirements can be found in the ‘Person Specification’ attached.

We particularly welcome applications from those from an ethnic minority as they are under-represented in the School of Law.

At the University of Essex, internationalism and diversity is central to who we are and what we do. We are committed to being a cosmopolitan, internationally oriented university that is welcoming to staff and students from all countries, faiths and backgrounds, where you can find the world in one place.

Please see the attached job pack, which contains a full job description and person specification which outlines the full duties, skills, qualifications and experience needed for this role plus more information relating to the post. We recommend you read this information carefully before making an application.  Applications should be made on-line, but if you would like advice or help in making an application, or need information in a different format, please contact [email protected]

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