Visiting Assistant Professor

Harvard Law School is soliciting applications for the position of Visiting Assistant Professor beginning with the 2011-2012 academic year.  We seek applicants with substantial legal practice experience — a minimum of three years in government, non-profit, or private practice, not including time spent as a law clerk — who have a strong interest in an academic career, but who have not yet completed enough scholarly work to make a regular tenure-track appointment possible.

Appointments will be for a term of two years.  Each appointee will teach a regular course load and will be expected to produce one or more substantial pieces of scholarship.  During the second year of the appointment, he or she will likely enter the tenure-track teaching market.

Each Visiting Assistant Professor will have access to the full range of resources offered by Harvard University.  He or she will be provided a private office, library privileges, health benefits, a research budget, a budget for travel, and an annual salary of $125,000.

Applications must be received by January 3, 2012. Each application should include the following materials:

1. Résumé or CV, including references
2. Electronic copies of transcripts from all undergraduate, law, and graduate schools attended
3. Research agenda. This should be no more than 2,000 words describing the applicant’s area(s) of research interest and at least one scholarly writing project.
4. At least one writing sample that demonstrates the applicant’s writing and analytical abilities and ability to generate interesting, original ideas. The writing sample can be unpublished work, such as a student paper or an early draft of a current project. An applicant who already has scholarly publications related to law should submit copies.
5. At least two letters of recommendation that focus on the applicant's scholarly potential (these should be sent directly by the recommender to the email address below).

Please send applications electronically to:

oaa@law.harvard.edu

With the subject line:  

Visiting Assistant Professor Application

Decisions will be made by March 1.