Instructor

Position Detail: Full-Time, Teaching
FLSA Status: Exempt
Compensation: $39,832-$86,595, commensurate with experience
Job ID: 1596
Closing Date: Open until filled, review of resumes to begin 10/30/09

GENERAL DUTIES

Performs teaching, research, and guidance duties at the CUNY School of Law in area(s) of expertise as noted below. Teaching responsibilities may include supervision of students in legal practice or other law-related activity. Shares responsibility for committee and department assignments, performing administrative, supervisory, and other functions as may be assigned.

CAMPUS SPECIFIC INFORMATION

The Law School seeks applicants with a demonstrated commitment to our social justice mission for a full-time teaching position. The Law School Instructor hired in this cycle will primarily teach First-Year Lawyering Seminar, the foundational course in CUNY School of Law's nationally recognized lawyering curriculum, with particular focus on the training development of public interest/public service lawyers. Spanning all three years of law school, the Law School's lawyering curriculum was hailed by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in its 2007 Report, Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law. CUNY Law innovatively and successfully integrates students learning of practical skills and the ethical demands of professional identity with their learning of legal theory and doctrine. The Law School's First-Year Lawyering Seminar teaches legal analysis, legal writing, professional responsibility, and other lawyering skills by integrating clinical methodology with substantive, theoretical, and doctrinal material. Using simulation exercises and hypothetical cases, students role-play lawyers, clients, judges, and/or legislators confronted by legal issues arising from material in their other first-year courses. The Lawyering Seminar focuses on the ways in which lawyers work and think in various areas of practice, with a focus on public interest law. Students develop their analytic skills by writing and revising legal documents on which they receive feedback and critiques. They also acquire new qualitative skills, such as active listening, collaborative problem solving and decision making, self-evaluation, and ethical reasoning. Students are encouraged to develop critical awareness of the social, legal, philosophical, political, and psychological content of their work. The Law School views these perspectives as central to a future lawyer's understanding of his/her status and role, including the mandates and aspirations of the New York Rules of Professional Conduct. Second-Year Lawyering Seminar and required clinical courses in the third-year build on the skills learned in the first year.

The instructor may, in accordance with the law school's needs, teach additional lawyering seminars, a doctrinal course, and/or provide academic skills instruction or other program support. This position is full-time and the instructor will be expected to teach and/or assist with the design and development of curriculum materials during the summer.

The Law School Instructor will be responsible for committee work and such administrative, supervisory, and other functions as assigned. In their first two years of service, Law School Instructors may opt into participating in faculty meetings, pursuant to the CUNY School of Law Governance Plan. Instructors may assume other faculty governance responsibilities and serve on committees as appointed by the Dean or Committee on Committees. Upon reappointment for three or more years of continuous service, Law School Instructors may participate in governance activities without an annual opt-in process.

Law School Instructors will perform other related duties as necessary or as directed by the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

A J.D., L.L.B., or Ph.D. in a law-related discipline. Also required are demonstrated legal ability, the ability to teach successfully, interest in productive scholarship, legal work, or law-related work, and ability to cooperate with others for the good of the institution.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Demonstrated outstanding qualities of personality, character, legal ability, and commitment to public service or public interest law. Minimum of five years practice experience, excellent writing skills, and substantial experience teaching in the areas of legal writing, lawyering, and legal analysis/legal methods. Additional doctrinal teaching experience, particularly in the area of commercial law.

BENEFITS

CUNY offers a comprehensive benefits package to employees and eligible dependents based on job title and classification. Employees are also offered pension and Tax-Deferred Savings Plans. Part-time employees must meet a weekly or semester work hour criteria to be eligible for health benefits. Health benefits are also extended to retirees who meet the eligibility criteria.

HOW TO APPLY

Visit CUNY.edu and click on the "Careers at CUNY First" link to access the online application. Search for "cuny law" and you will be able to apply directly online.

For position inquiries contact:
Maureen McCafferty
Coordinator of Faculty Recruitment
facultyappointments@mail.law.cuny.edu

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
The City University of New York is an Equal Opportunity Employer which complies with all applicable laws and regulations, and encourages inclusive excellence in its employment practices.