Associate Professorship of Taxation Law in association with St Hugh's College

The successful candidate will be both a member of the Faculty of Law and a Non-Tutorial Fellow at St Hugh’s College. The person appointed will join one of the largest and most distinguished groups of legal scholars in the world. They will have, or be well on the way to establishing, a record of internationally recognised scholarship and research and will be required to provide a high standard of research-led teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including the supervision of research students.

 

The successful candidate will have an undergraduate degree in law or proof of equivalent legal competence; a doctorate in a relevant subject or an established record of accomplishment in a relevant field of research that shows the capacity for original research that a doctorate would reflect; a record of high-quality research and publications in the field of taxation law commensurate with career experience, and the potential to produce further significant output of a recognised international quality during the tenure of the post; the ability to teach and assess high-achieving students in undergraduate and postgraduate taught courses, including the MSc in Taxation, which teaching may fall on weekends or outside term time, and to provide supervision and research leadership for postdoctoral fellows, doctoral and Master’s-level students; the ability to play a major part in developing the Faculty’s research and teaching programme, including participating in the design of graduate-level courses and promoting the development of high-quality internationally recognised research; the ability to work as part of a team; the ability to establish networks in the field of taxation law at national and international level, and to demonstrate leadership potential; the ability to present research findings effectively to fellow academics, professionals, policymakers and informed members of the public; a commitment to good citizenship and proven administrative and pastoral skills, including the ability to work efficiently with Faculty and College administration and the ability to deal with the pastoral needs of students; and a willingness to contribute to the life of the College.

 

Queries about the Faculty of Law should be directed to the Vice-Dean, Professor Donal Nolan donal.nolan@law.ox.ac.uk (who will be a member of the selection committee). Queries about the application process should be directed to the Law Faculty HR Manager, Emma Gascoigne (recruitment@law.ox.ac.uk).  

 

The closing date for applications is 12 noon (UK time) on Tuesday 6 January 2026.  Interviews will be held on Monday 9 February 2026.

 

The Faculty of Law is an Athena SWAN Bronze award holder. Applications are particularly welcome from women and Black and ethnic minority candidates, who are under-represented in senior academic positions in Oxford.

 

A video entitled ‘Demystifying Oxford: Academic Hiring at the Faculty of Law’ can be found  here.

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