Assistant/Associate Professor of Legal Writing

Rank

Assistant/Associate Professor

Position Summary

The University of Alabama School of Law seeks qualified applicants for the position of Assistant/Associate Professor of Legal Writing. The successful candidate must demonstrate a strong commitment to contributing to the growth, development, and improvement of the legal writing program and a willingness to collaborate with colleagues on core assignments and teaching strategies. Duties include teaching two sections in the first-year legal writing program and developing an upper-level writing or drafting course. The successful candidate also may be eligible to coach a moot court team for additional compensation.

Detailed Position Information

The University of Alabama School of Law seeks qualified applicants for the position of Assistant/Associate Professor of Legal Writing. The successful applicant must demonstrate a strong commitment to contributing to the growth, development, and improvement of the legal writing program.

This is a 9-month position and does not include the possibility of tenure. The position will be on a contract basis with an initial three-year term and the possibility of additional three-year terms.

Working under the supervision of the Law School’s Director of Legal Writing, our legal writing faculty collaborate with colleagues on core assignments and on teaching strategies but otherwise select and develop their own materials and lessons. The successful candidate will teach two sections in the first-year program and will also develop an upper-level writing or drafting course and teach that course twice during the three-year contract. The successful candidate, in consultation with the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Director of Legal Writing, may be eligible to coach a moot court team for additional compensation.

Applicants must have a law degree from an ABA-accredited law school and a strong academic record. Applicants must demonstrate effective legal writing skills and should be admitted to and in good standing with a state bar. Preference will be given to applicants with four or more years of legal experience and to applicants with teaching experience. Salary and benefits will be nationally competitive. All applications are confidential to the extent permitted by state and federal law.

All applicants must apply for this position through the University of Alabama’s job site at https://careers.ua.edu/jobs/search/law. Applications must include a resume, cover letter, list of three references, and a writing sample. Applications will be received until the position is filled, but preference will be given to applications received by April 20, 2026.

Minimum Qualifications

Applicants must have a law degree from an ABA-accredited law school and a strong academic record. Applicants must demonstrate effective legal writing skills and should be admitted to and in good standing with a state bar.

Preferred Qualifications

Preference will be given to applicants with four or more years of legal experience and to applicants with teaching experience.

Instructions and Required Materials for Application

Applications must include a resume, cover letter, list of three references, and a writing sample. Applications will be received until the position is filled, but preference will be given to applications received by April 20, 2026.

About the Division/College/School

If you are interested in joining an outstanding law school with a strong academic community, enviable student bar passage and employment rates, a low student-to-faculty ratio, and curricular offerings with breadth and depth, all within a supportive and diverse environment, then Alabama Law is the place for you.

Alabama Law has long been an excellent place to seriously engage in both teaching and scholarship, and the academic community is taking notice. Members of our faculty are engaging a wide range of issues that are at the heart of debates over substantive and procedural law, public policy, historical understandings, and philosophical values. Their scholarship is published in leading university presses including Oxford, Harvard, Cambridge, Princeton, Yale, and NYU.

Our faculty’s academic engagement benefits our students, not only in the classroom but also as they enter the profession. Employment numbers for Alabama Law graduates nationwide continue to be a solid marker of the quality of our students and of the education they receive here. Recent data also indicate that Alabama Law is ranked among the top law schools for the percentage of graduates who secure federal judicial clerkships.

At the heart of what makes Alabama Law a superb place are our people—faculty, staff, and students. Here, you will find an impressive, motivated, and diverse community of colleagues. You can see and hear their contributions, not only in classrooms and hallways, but in other venues across the nation.