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Director, Legal Studies
Location: Berkeley, CA
Salary: Commensurate with experience.
This is a three-year renewable contract position at 100% time.
Expected Start Date: July 1, 2015
Job Description:
The Legal Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley
School of Law seeks a full time academic coordinator and lecturer for
the position of Director of Legal Studies. The Legal Studies Program was
founded more than 35 years ago as one of the nation’s first
interdisciplinary majors for undergraduates in law and legal studies.
Along with the graduate program in Jurisprudence and Social Policy, the
Legal Studies Program is committed to providing a substantive liberal
arts curriculum on law and legal institutions, practices, and
discourses. Legal Studies currently serves approximately 250
undergraduate students. Its teaching faculty consists of 19 scholars
from a range of disciplines, including sociology, political science,
history, economics, psychology, and law, supplemented by regular
lecturers.
The Director of Legal Studies will be responsible for the day-to-day
administration of the program as well as working with the Associate Dean
for Jurisprudence and Social Policy to evaluate and revise the program.
The Director of Legal Studies will be the chief faculty adviser to all
Legal Studies undergraduate majors, organizing and overseeing our honors
program and advising students writing honors theses. The Director of
Legal Studies will select and hire graduate students to serve as
Graduate Student Instructors, resolve student academic problems that
arise, and supervise multiple staff persons who carry out advising and
course scheduling for Legal Studies. In addition, the Director will work
with the Associate Dean for Jurisprudence and Social Policy to carry
out curricular and budgetary planning for the department; and manage
staff shared by Legal Studies, Jurisprudence and Social Policy, and the
Center for the Study of Law and Society. The Director will collaborate
with the Associate Dean for Jurisprudence and Social Policy to develop
and implement the International Program in Legal Studies. The Director
will operate as our liaison to the College of Letters and Sciences, to
faculty teaching Legal Studies-related curriculum across campus, and at
national conferences on Legal Studies. The Director will also teach in
the Legal Studies Program. Teaching responsibilities will constitute up
to 50% of the position responsibilities and would normally include
teaching the Legal Studies Honors Pro-seminar in the fall of each year
in addition to courses in the
More information is available
here. The final deadline for applications is
January 15, 2015.
