UOD1088: Senior Lecturer in Environmental Law (Teaching & Research)

We are seeking an exceptional candidate to enhance excellence in teaching and research in the Dundee Law School.

The successful candidate will be an international environmental lawyer, expected to take a leading role in the development of our environmental law curriculum, working across our taught programmes and PhD supervision and working with colleagues across the School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law and the wider University.

Specialist expertise may come from across any area of international environmental law. We would be especially interested in candidates with expertise in international climate change law, transboundary water law, the law of the sea, ESG law, or biodiversity and nature conservation.  We welcome applications from those working from doctrinal, theoretical, contextual, and/or interdisciplinary perspectives, and applications from practitioners.

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work in cross-school interdisciplinary initiatives including within the UNESCO Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science https://www.dundee.ac.uk/water and the planned new University-wide Sustainability Institute, which will also be hosted in the School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law

In addition to teaching and administrative duties, the successful candidates should have a clearly articulated research strategy and will undertake excellent research with demonstrable impact. Pursuit of external grant funding and published research papers are essential along with a strategy for knowledge exchange.

Your priorities will include:

• Lead on the enhancement and development of our specialist teaching in international environmental law;
• Contribute to the development and delivery of both undergraduate and postgraduate modules;
• Contribute to academic and / or practice-based research in Law, producing outputs at the highest level (REF 3* and 4*), publishing in high quality research journals and presenting work at international conferences;
• Use of innovative teaching methods to deliver high quality and effective teaching at all levels to equip students with the skills, attributes and experience required for their future careers;

Who we’re looking for someone who has:

• PhD in Law or a cognate discipline OR an equivalent professional qualification in Law and experience of practice at a high level;
• Ability to develop research objectives, projects and proposals;
• Ability to conduct individual or collaborative research projects and publish high quality internationally excellent publications;
• Ability to take a proactive approach to the development of research strategies;

For further information about this position please contact Head of Division of Law, Professor Sarah Hendry S.M.Hendry@dundee.ac.uk . To find out more about the Division of Law please visit www.dundee.ac.uk/law

The diversity of our staff and students helps to make the University of Dundee one of the top universities in the UK.  Family friendly policies, staff support networks for BME and LGBT staff, membership of Athena Swan and Stonewall, as well a full range of disability services, create an enjoyable and inclusive place to work.

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