Tenure or Tenure-Track Professor of Law

The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, William S. Richardson School of Law seeks to fill two legal writing faculty positions: (1) a tenured Professor or Associate Professor of Law who could also be appointed as the Director of Legal Writing, and (2) a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Law. The Law School is in the process of transitioning its 1L legal writing program from a hybrid adjunct program to a coordinated course staffed entirely by tenured or tenure-track faculty whose primary teaching and scholarship interests are in legal writing. The successful candidates will have an opportunity to bring their fresh perspectives to help reshape the course and contribute to our broader, ongoing efforts to revamp the 1L curriculum.

If appointed as the Director of Legal Writing, the new senior hire will have responsibility for overseeing the 1L legal writing program. Specific and additional duties will be assigned by the Dean of the Law School.

We encourage candidates who are members of groups underrepresented in the legal academy to apply. Rank and salary commensurate with experience.

The Law School is located in Mānoa on the flagship campus of the University of Hawai‘i system. It reflects and embraces Hawai‘i’s diversity, location, and values, and recognizes its special responsibility to Hawai‘i and the Pacific region. The successful candidates will be expected to contribute to furthering UH Mānoa’s mission as a community-serving university grounded in a Native Hawaiian place of learning. The successful candidates should also be willing to contribute to and support the Law School’s new online JD program.

Minimum Qualifications:

An outstanding record of academic and/or professional achievement, a Juris Doctor degree or equivalent, and a potential for or demonstrated excellence in teaching first-year legal writing in a JD program, legal writing scholarship, and public service.

Desirable Qualifications:

Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with diverse groups of students, staff, faculty, alumni, government officials, community members, and members of the bar, and to thrive in multicultural and multidisciplinary contexts.

Demonstrated interest in teaching, scholarship, and/or service that benefits the diverse, multicultural communities of Hawaiʻi and the Pacific region.

Experience in teaching upper-level writing courses in a JD program.

Experience in and commitment to teaching law effectively in a variety of modalities, including in-person, online, and hybrid.

Law practice experience.

Interested candidates should submit the following to the Appointments Committee Chair, Professor Richard Chen, at wsrslfsc@hawaii.edu:

1. Cover letter showing how they satisfy the minimum and desirable qualifications;
2. Resume;
3. Contact information for three academic and/or professional references;
4. Research agenda;
5. Statement describing their teaching philosophy;
6. Job talk paper and up to two additional scholarly articles or equivalent; and
7. Statement explaining how they would contribute to furthering the mission and values of the Law School and UH Mānoa.

The Appointments Committee will begin reviewing applications on August 21, 2023, and continue until the positions are filled.

The University of Hawaiʻi is an equal opportunity/affirmative action institution and is committed to a policy of nondiscrimination on the basis of race, sex, gender identity and expression, age, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, disability, marital status, arrest and court record, sexual orientation, or status as a covered veteran.