Law - Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Law - 525090

Department/Organization
218131 - General Law Studies

Rank
Professor

Position Summary
The University of Alabama School of Law seeks qualified applicants for the position of Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Law for the Spring and Fall 2025 semesters. The successful candidate will teach Federal Jurisdiction, Complex Litigation, and/or other related courses as agreeable with the Dean and Law School administration. The successful candidate will also assist the Career Services Office in developing placements and programming for the Law School's Judicial Externship Program.

Detailed Position Information
The University of Alabama School of Law seeks qualified applicants for the position of Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Law for the Spring and Fall 2025 semesters. The successful candidate will teach Federal Jurisdiction, Complex Litigation, and/or other related courses as agreeable with the Dean and Law School administration. The successful candidate will also assist the Career Services Office in developing placements and programming for the Law School's Judicial Externship Program.

Candidates must have a J.D. from an ABA accredited law school or an equivalent degree (such as a Ph.D. in a related field). Candidates also must possess academic credentials or practice experience demonstrating both expertise in the relevant subject area(s) and the potential for outstanding classroom instruction. We welcome applications from candidates who approach scholarship from a variety of perspectives and methods.

This solicitation is for a 1-year appointment (Spring and Fall 2025). This position is non-tenure earning and does not lead to security of position. Salary and benefits will be nationally competitive. All applications are confidential to the extent permitted by state and federal law.

Minimum Qualifications
J.D. from an ABA accredited law school and academic credentials or practice experience indicative of expertise in relevant subject area(s) and potential for outstanding classroom instruction.

Preferred Qualifications
Candidates with judicial experience preferred.

Instructions and Required Materials for Application
Please submit a CV/resume and letter of interest.

About the Division/College/School
If you are interested in joining an outstanding law school with a strong academic community, enviable student bar passage and employment rates, a low student-to-faculty ratio, and curricular offerings with breadth and depth, all within a supportive and diverse environment, then Alabama Law is the place for you.

Alabama Law has long been an excellent place to seriously engage in both teaching and scholarship, and the academic community is taking notice. Members of our faculty are engaging a wide range of issues that are at the heart of debates over substantive and procedural law, public policy, historical understandings, and philosophical values. Their scholarship is published in leading university presses including Oxford, Harvard, Cambridge, Princeton, Yale, and NYU.

Our faculty’s academic engagement benefits our students, not only in the classroom but also as they enter the profession. Employment numbers for Alabama Law graduates nationwide continue to be a solid marker of the quality of our students and of the education they receive here. Recent data also indicate that Alabama Law is ranked among the top law schools for the percentage of graduates who secure federal judicial clerkships.

At the heart of what makes Alabama Law a superb place are our people—faculty, staff, and students. Here, you will find an impressive, motivated, and diverse community of colleagues. You can see and hear their contributions, not only in classrooms and hallways, but in other venues across the nation.

About the University
The University of Alabama is located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, named one of Travel + Leisure’s 25 Best College Towns and Cities in the U.S. As one of the nation’s premier universities, UA offers bachelor’s, master's and doctoral degrees in nearly 200 fields of study. With more than 1,400 acres of tree-lined academic core campus and over 300 state-of-the art facilities, UA has been ranked among the most beautiful and most impressive college campuses in the South, in the state of Alabama and in the nation.

In Fall 2023, the Capstone set a new enrollment record with more than 39,000 students, including more than 8,200 in the freshman class. The current enrollment includes students from every county in Alabama, every state in the nation and 92 countries around the world. More than 1,100 National Merit Schol