Lecturer in Financial Law (Education)

Salary: Grade 7 £46,292 to £54,534, including London Weighting Allowance

Campus: Strand Campus

Contact: For an informal discussion to find out more about the role please contact Anat Keller, anat.keller@kcl.ac.uk

Job description

The Dickson Poon School of Law is seeking to appoint to a Lectureship an outstanding candidate with teaching expertise and research interests in Financial Law. This is a post on the Academic Education Pathway, which emphasises teaching, scholarship and innovation. The successful candidate will wish to gain further experience in a research-informed teaching role contributing to our on-line and on-campus delivery of Financial Law. The successful candidates will also be actively involved in the administration and academic life of a world leading law school.

The teaching will include support for small group classes in the successful online International Corporate/Financial and Commercial Law LLM programmes and on-campus International Financial Law pathway (LLM). The successful candidate will also undertake public engagement activities and carry out administrative duties in the Dickson Poon School of Law.

The successful candidate will be responsible to the Executive Dean.   

The Dickson Poon School of Law at King’s College London is one of the oldest law schools in England and recognised globally as one of the best law schools in the world. It is ranked 15^th in the world and 4^th in the UK in the QS World University Rankings for Law 2020. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) exercise, research in the School was rated as number one in the UK.

The Dickson Poon School of Law embraces equality, diversity and inclusion. We attract students and staff from across the world, from many different backgrounds, with a variety of ethnicities, religions, and sexual and gender identities. We promote flexible working as a key enabler of inclusion. We particularly encourage and welcome applications from women, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates, and from candidates who are LGBTQ+ and/or have a disability. 

The Dickson Poon School of Law is housed in the East Wing of Somerset House, a Grade One listed building, on the College’s Strand Campus, no more than a couple of minutes’ walk from the Royal Courts of Justice and Inns of Court and midway between Westminster and the City of London. The School’s location has always enabled it to have excellent contacts with practitioners and policy-makers, and there is a strong tradition of engagement with the legal profession.

The Dickson Poon School of Law has a long-standing reputation for excellence in the laws of England and Wales, European, International and Transnational Law. The School’s research interests cover all areas of public and private law and include the philosophy and sociology of law as well as doctrinal, empirical, historical, interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to the study of law. Its educational offering covers a broad range of legal disciplines and is home to a vibrant postgraduate research community. It also has a Professional Law Institute and a Legal Clinic.

• Of particular relevance to this role are the School’s Online International Corporate/Financial and Commercial Law LLM and on campus LLM programmes with specialist pathways, including an International Financial Law pathway.

Contract Type

This post will be offered on an indefinite contract.

This is a full-time post

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