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Boston University Visiting Lecturer, Lawyering Program, School of Law, Boston University in BOSTON, Massachusetts
BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, a top-tier law school with an international reputation, is a community of leading legal scholars, teachers, students, and alumni who are dedicated to providing one of the finest legal educations in the world. Since our doors opened in 1872, we have admitted and enrolled accomplished students to our program regardless of their race, gender, and religion. The breadth and depth of our curriculum and scholarship as well as our innovative spirit are distinctive in U.S. legal education.
Boston University School of Law is seeking a candidate to join the Lawyering Program as a Visiting Lecturer for the 2025 – 2026 academic year. The Lawyering Program provides intensive instruction in legal research, writing, and analysis, introduces students to other critical lawyering skills like client interviewing and oral advocacy, and engages the students in an in-depth transactional simulation. The Visiting Lecturer will teach two sections of approximately fifteen to twenty students, providing classroom instruction and individualized feedback on writing assignments. Each section of the course is also supported by a research librarian and three 2L or 3L Lawyering Fellows. Additional responsibilities include attending program meetings, judging 1L moot court arguments, and having conferences with students on major assignments. The Lawyering Program’s collaborative environment will allow the Visiting Lecturer to draw upon the Program’s carefully designed assignments and exercises, while maintaining substantial curricular latitude, including in selecting assignments
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The Visiting Lecturer will receive a one-year contract beginning on July 1, 2025. This is a non-renewable 12-month, non-tenure track appointment with no voting rights. Candidates must have a degree from an accredited law school, excellent writing and analytical skills, and a strong academic record. Prior legal practice and/or clerkship experience required. Experienced legal writing teachers as well as those seeking to enter the profession are encouraged to apply.
Boston University School of Law anticipates commencing a search for a permanent full-time faculty member next year and the Visiting Lecturer will be eligible to apply, although will not receive preferential treatment in that search.
Our university community welcomes differences, encourage open-minded exploration, and upholds freedom of expression. At Boston University School of Law, we are dedicated to building a just, inclusive, and engaged community of faculty, staff, and students. We recognize we have more work to do to achieve this vision. Boston University School of Law is committed not only to the ideals of faculty diversity and inclusion but also to the work of creating and implementing practices that combat exclusion and inequity by race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, religion, and other identities subject to historical subordination. We also strive to foster a more inclusive intellectual culture that represents and encourages a broad range of intellectual traditions and approaches to the law. We welcome expressions of interest from applicants of all identities, intellectual traditions, and perspectives.
BU conducts a background check on all final candidates for certain faculty and staff positions. The background check includes contacting the final candidate’s current and previous employer(s) to ask whether, in the last seven years, there has been a substantiated finding of misconduct violating that
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Applicants should send a letter of interest, C.V., and a list of three references to lawappts@bu.edu. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis with priority given to those who apply by January 17.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, natural or protective hairstyle, religion, sex, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, military service, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, or because of marital, parental, or veteran status. We are a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.
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