Tutorial Fellowship in Law, and Associate Professorship of Law Oxford, England
Job description
The appointment will initially be for five years at which point, upon completion of a successful review, the post holder will be eligible for reappointment to retirement age.
The appointee will have, or be on the way to establishing, a record of internationally recognised scholarship and research and will be required to provide a high standard of teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including the supervision of research students.
The successful candidate will be expected to engage in advanced study and research in Law, and to give high quality tutorials, classes, lectures, and supervision at both undergraduate and graduate levels. For the College, teaching is sought in two of the following subjects: Roman law, contract law, land law, trusts. Applications are particularly sought by the Faculty from those who have research interests and teaching experience in at least one of the following areas: Civil Procedure, Conflicts of Law, Legal History.
The Faculty and College offer an exciting research and teaching environment and an attractive financial package to the successful applicant. Salary range between £50,300 – £67,541 per annum plus additional benefits.
Please refer to the Further Particulars for details of the wider benefits offered by the University and St Edmund Hall.
Associate Professors who are awarded the title of full professor may receive from the University an additional salary payment of £2,931 per annum.
View Further Particulars Here
How to apply
There is no application form for this post, but applications must include:
- A completed cover sheet with your full contact details (email address, postal address, at least one contact telephone number), the names and contact details of three referees, and an indication of where you first heard about this post.
- A covering letter or statement explaining how you meet the selection criteria set out above. This should be no longer than 2 sides of A4 (in a standard 11- or 12-point font).
- A full CV, including a list of publications.
Applications should be sent by email to [email protected] by the deadline for applications, which is 12 noon (UK time) on Tuesday, 11 April 2023. Applications received after this time will not be considered.
All applicants will be sent an emailed confirmation of receipt of their application as soon as possible after it arrives. This will be sent to the email address given in the application unless specified otherwise by the applicant.
Should you have any queries about how to apply, please contact the HR Manager at St Edmund Hall via [email protected].
Candidates seeking Recognition of Distinction (i.e. the title of Professor) upon appointment must make this clear in their application.
All candidates who are invited to interview will be asked to submit TWO items of written work, published or unpublished, by email. These items should be about the length of a book chapter, thesis chapter or academic article.
Referees
You are advised to contact your referees, before applying, to ensure that they are aware of your application and the requirements for the post and to ensure that they would be content to write a reference for you if asked to do so, in the event that you are shortlisted. Your application should include for each referee their name, position, relationship to you, postal address, email address and contact telephone number and whether you give permission for us to contact them. Shortlisted candidates will be asked to contact their referees and ask them to submit the references directly to us.
Interviews are expected to be held in Oxford on Thursday, 11 or Friday, 12 May or during the week commencing Monday, 15 May 2023.
If you would like to discuss this post and find out more about joining the academic community at Oxford, please contact the Senior Tutor at St Edmund Hall, Dr Robert Wilkins ([email protected]), or Professor Robert Burrell in the Faculty of Law ([email protected]). Questions about the application process should be addressed to the College HR Manager ([email protected]).
The Faculty of Law is an Athena Swan Bronze Award holder. Applications are particularly welcome from women and black and ethnic minority candidates, who are under-represented in senior academic positions in Oxford.
Recruitment Monitoring
Please also consider completing an online Equal Opportunity Monitoring Form. A paper copy can be found HERE. Submission of this form is voluntary and does not form part of the selection process, but we would be grateful if you are willing to return it with your application to assist us with our equal opportunity monitoring.
