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Job #JPF04872
- Law / School of Law / UC Berkeley
Position overview
Position title: Lecturer
Salary range: The UC academic salary scales set the minimum pay at appointment. See the following table for the current salary scale for these positions: https://www.ucop.edu/academic-personnel-programs/_files/2024-25/july-2024-scales/t15.pdf. The current full-time salary range for these positions is $68,247 - $192,040.
Percent time: Generally part-time; 5 - 100%
Anticipated start: July 1, 2025 or later
Review timeline: Completed applications will be reviewed when openings arise. Appointments for the fall semester are usually reviewed in January and for the spring semester in July. Applicants who remain interested in consideration after the final deadline will need to submit a new application.
Position duration: Positions may be for one semester or for the full academic year, with the possibility of renewal. Appointments may be renewed based on need, funding, and performance.
Application Window
Open date: March 31, 2025
Most recent review date: Tuesday, Apr 15, 2025 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Applications received after this date will be reviewed by the search committee if the position has not yet been filled.
Final date: Tuesday, Mar 31, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Applications will continue to be accepted until this date, but those received after the review date will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled.
Position description
Berkeley Law is generating an applicant pool of qualified instructors to teach courses in our Legal Studies program should openings arise.
Legal Studies is an interdisciplinary undergraduate major that engages the meanings, values, practices, and institutions of law and legality. The faculty of Berkeley Law’s Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program (JSP) has primary responsibility for the Legal Studies program at UC Berkeley. JSP faculty and other Law faculty teach a curriculum that examines how law shapes, and is shaped by, political, economic, and cultural forces. The major is designed to stimulate critical understanding of and inquiry about the theoretical frameworks, historical dynamics, and cultural embeddedness of law.
General Duties: In addition to teaching responsibilities, general duties include holding office hours, assigning grades, advising students, preparing course materials (e.g., syllabus), and maintaining a course website.
To receive full consideration for any openings please submit a complete application. Completed applications will be reviewed when openings arise.
Candidates who are interested in remaining in the pool after the final date will need to submit a new application.
Berkeley Law is interested in candidates who will contribute to diversity and equal opportunity in higher education through their teaching.
UC Lecturers are academic appointees in an organized bargaining unit and are exclusively represented by the American Federation of Teachers - Unit 18.
Curricular Details: http://legalstudies.berkeley.edu
Qualifications
Basic qualifications (required at time of application)
J.D. degree or equivalent international degree, or Ph.D. degree or enrollment in a Ph.D. degree (or international equivalent) program at the time of application.
Additional qualifications (required at time of start)
J.D., Ph.D., or equivalent international degree is required by start date. Experience teaching at the postsecondary level is required by start date.
Preferred qualifications
Experience teaching courses in a United States law school, with outstanding student and peer evaluations;
More than five years legal practice experience in the United States or another jurisdiction, in the area of Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility.
Application Requirements
Document requirements
- Teaching evaluations and/or other materials or information may be requested of top candidates.
- Curriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V.
- Statement of Teaching - Please address the following questions related to your teaching at Berkeley Law. Please limit your response to 300 words.
- --- How does your proposed course align with your legal work or legal practice?
- --- What would be your pedagogical approach to teaching the course?
- --- Have you taught in a law school before? If so, where, when, and what subjects did you teach?
- Finalist candidates will be asked for copies of any student teaching evaluations.
- Course of Interest - Please provide a one-to-two-paragraph course proposal for any course you are interested in teaching. Each course proposal must align with the subject matter of the specialized pool to which you are applying. For example, if you want to teach a business law course, you should apply to the Business Law pool and your course proposal must be for a business law course.
Reference requirements
- 2 required (contact information only)
- Letters of reference may be requested of top candidates.
Apply link: https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04872
Help contact: academicpositions@law.berkeley.edu
