Associate Professor in Law – Full time, Permanent

We are looking to appoint an Associate Professor in Law on our Professional Practice, Learning and Teaching, or Research pathway. The successful candidate will join a strong team of committed staff and contribute to the delivery of family and child law and related subject areas within the Law Subject Group. The post will contribute to developing our engagement with local and national legal services market, policy makers and third sector organisations. The successful candidate will be Director of a new Centre for Child and Family Law and Policy reporting to the Head of Subject.

Edinburgh Napier Business School is going places and provides opportunities for the innovative development of areas of Law as well as career progression and development enhanced by the University Strategy.

The Law staff currently deliver a highly successful LLB (Hons) programme with various in routes that has consistently high NSS ratings.  A truly international community of practice, the school is one of the largest Business Schools in Scotland and offers expertise, teaching and research across: Accounting & Finance, Business & Management, Law, Marketing, Tourism, Hospitality, and Festival & Events Management. To learn more, watch this short video.

The role

An opportunity has arisen for an established and motivated professional or academic to play a key role in taking forward the work of the Law subject group. The applicant must demonstrate the ability to contribute to the subject group, together with its Head and other staff members, to achieve and drive forward its strategic objectives. At the same time, the role will enable the applicant to further develop their own professional profile.  

The ideal applicant will have a proven professional or research activity track record in areas that compliment and expand our existing strengths, and make a significant contribution to knowledge exchange income generation. We are particularly seeking to augment our professional activity and profile in the area of child and family law, to support and develop the work of the Law Subject Group.

The applicant will contribute to learning and teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level and doctoral supervisions and must be prepared to deliver undergraduate modules in Family Law on the LLB programme and such other modules as requested by Head of Subject on the LLB programme. The successful applicant will be invited to develop a new module based on their specialism and subject to discussion with the Head of Subject.   They will also lead the development of the Centre for Child and Family Law and Policy.   

Who we are looking for

In addition to the role profile (click here to view) the following criteria are essential: 

• Evidence of a professional (legal) or academic profile
• Sufficient breadth and depth of experience in specialism to develop high quality teaching/learning and research programmes
• Evidence of generating external funding or successful research collaboration
• Proven track record in leading and managing within a team environment
• A doctoral level qualification in Law is highly desirable.

Benefits we offer

Salary: GBP 51,799 - GBP 60,022 per annum (Grade 7)

Further information about our benefits can be found here

Additional information

Closing: Tuesday 12 October @11.59pm

Interviews: TBC

For informal discussions please contact Professor Richard Whitecross R.Whitecross@napier.ac.uk and for general queries - recuitment@napier.ac.uk.

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