Associate Professorship in Intellectual Property Law in association with a Tutorial Fellowship at The Queen's College

Deadline date: Midday on 4 April 2023

The Faculty of Law, in association, with The Queen’s College, invites suitably qualified candidates to apply for the post of Associate Professor in Intellectual Property Law in the Faculty of Law, and Tutorial Fellowship at The Queen’s College effective from the start of the 2023-24 academic year. 

The person appointed will join one of the largest and most distinguished groups of legal scholars in the world. The appointee 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.

Applicants must have a doctorate in a relevant subject, or an established record of accomplishment in legal research that shows the capacity for original research that a doctorate would reflect; the ability to provide excellent tutorial teaching within the field of appointment as outlined above; a record of high quality research and publication commensurate with their career experience, and potential to produce further significant output of a recognised international quality during the tenure of the post;  the ability to teach, challenge, and assess high-achieving students in taught courses; provide supervision and research leadership for doctoral students and the ability and willingness to teach intellectual property practitioners on the Intellectual Property Diploma and MSc courses, some of this teaching falling on weekends. The full selection criteria in the Further Particulars should be consulted before applying.

The salary will be on a scale from £50,300 - £67,541 per annum plus additional benefits as detailed in the job description.  Associate Professors who are awarded the title of full Professor may receive from the University an additional salary payment of £2,931 per annum.

The postholder will be based in the Queen’s College, High Street, Oxford, OX1 4AW

If you would like to discuss this post or find out more about joining the academic community at Oxford generally, please contact Robert Burrell  (robert.burrell@law.ox.ac.uk). Questions about the application process should be addressed to recruitment@law.ox.ac.uk.  All enquiries will be treated in strict confidence and will not form part of the selection decision.

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.

The closing date for applications is midday on Tuesday 4 April 2023.  Interviews will be held as soon as possible after the closing date.

Applications for this vacancy are to be made online. To apply for this role and to download the further details (including the job description and selection criteria), please click on the link www.recruit.ox.ac.uk and enter Vacancy ID: 164000

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