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/2025-26/represented-july-2025-scales/t15.pdf. The current full-time salary range for these positions is $70,977-$199,722.
Percent time: Generally part-time; 5 - 100%
Anticipated start: Summer 2026 or later
Review timeline: Applicants are considered for positions as needs arise; the existence of this applicant pool does not guarantee that a position is available. The applicant pool will remain in place for 12 months; those interested in remaining in the applicant pool beyond the advertised final closing date must reapply.
Position duration: Positions may be for one semester or for the full academic year, with the possibility of renewal. The possibility of reappointment is based on need and subject to the terms of the bargaining agreement
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.
The department seeks qualified candidates who possess subject matter expertise and teaching knowledge in the following course subjects, and who can support the success of all students through inclusive curriculum, classroom environment, and pedagogy.
- Foundations of Legal Studies
- Policing
- Theories of Law & Society
- Theories of Justice
- Aims & Limits of Criminal Law
- Feminist Rights Movements
- Philosophy & Law in Ancient Athens
- Cybersecurity in Context
- Data, Prediction, and Law
- Human Rights & War Crimes Investigations Methods
- Ethical AI
- Law & American Empire in the Pacific
- International Courts and Human Rights
- Law, Judicial Politics, and Rights in Latin America
- Law & Rights in Authoritarian States
- Supreme Court & Public Policy
- Wall Street / Main Street
- Monetary Law and Regulation
- History of Political Economy
- Law & History of Economic Institutions of Capitalism
- Law & Economics (micro)
- Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship
- Intimate Partner Violence
- Human Rights Research & Practice
- International Law & International Relations
- Law & Development
- Sexuality & Gender
- Punishment Culture & Society
- Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation
- Sex, Reproduction, and Law
- Crime & Criminal Justice
- Access to Justice
- American Legal & Constitutional History
- Law, Politics, and Society
- Sociology of Law
- Special Topics in Legal Studies
- Immigration and Citizenship
- Immigrant Rights Movements
- Restorative Justice
- Other Legal Studies course subjects (please specify in your Cover Letter)
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. All work must be performed in the United States, whether in person or online.
Most courses are offered in-person on the UC Berkeley campus with a few synchronous online courses offered in the summer. All courses are offered Mon. - Fri, 8am - 9:05pm U.S.A. Pacific Time. All work must be performed in the United States, whether in person or online.
Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States at the time of hire. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
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