UOD1089: Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law (Teaching & Research)

We are seeking an exceptional candidate to enhance the excellence in teaching and research in the Dundee Law School. Dundee Law School offers a wide range of core and optional modules, and we deliver degrees in both Scots and English Law.

The successful candidate will be expected to take a leading role in the development of our commercial and corporate law curriculum, working across our LLB and taught LLM programmes and PhD supervision.

Specialist expertise may come from across areas of corporate or commercial law, for example corporate governance, international sales, e-commerce, commercial arbitration, banking and financial services, international taxation, fin tech, or the relationship between law and technology. Depending on their specialism, the successful candidate will lead work on developing shared provision with the School of Business, or with the Leverhulme Centre for Forensic Science, or on leading our suite of LLM programmes.

In addition to teaching and administrative duties (including student recruitment) 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. Applications are welcome from practitioners wishing to develop a career as an academic researcher.

Your priorities will include:

• Lead on the enhancement and development of our core and optional teaching in commercial and / or corporate law, including with other Schools in the University;
• 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

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