Associate Professorship of Law in association with a Tutorial Fellowship in Law, St John’s College

St John’s College and the Faculty of Law invite applications from suitably qualified candidates for a Tutorial Fellowship and Associate Professorship of Law, to be appointed with effect from 1st October 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter. The successful candidate will be both an Official Fellow and Tutor in Law at St John’s, and a member of the Faculty of Law.

The successful candidate will be a member of both the College and Faculty communities. They will be part of a lively and intellectually stimulating research community which publishes at the highest international levels, and they will have access to the excellent research facilities that Oxford offers. The person appointed will join one of the largest and most distinguished groups of legal scholars in the world. The appointee will have a record of internationally recognised scholarship and research and will be able to provide a high standard of research-led teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including the supervision of research students.

The Faculty is looking to appoint someone who will produce outstanding research and who has a demonstrated capacity to provide research leadership. The Faculty is therefore open candidates who can provide high quality teaching in any field of law.  For the College, teaching is sought in at least two of following: Contract, Criminal Law, Land Law, Tort, or Trusts.

Applicants should have received a doctoral degree or have done equivalent research work to a person holding a doctorate; an outstanding record of original, important, and rigorous published research;. evidence of excellence in undergraduate teaching in at least two of the College's preferred subjects, along with the personal qualities needed to encourage a high level of achievement in undergraduate students; evidence of excellence in postgraduate teaching and supervision, along with the personal qualities needed to encourage a high level of achievement in graduate students.  The full selection criteria in the Further Particulars should be consulted before applying.

The salary will be on a scale from £52,815 - £70,918 per annum 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 £3,078 per annum.

The postholder will be based at St John’s College, St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3JP

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 7th November 2023.  Interviews will be held on the 23rd and 24th November 2023.

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: 168642

A video link to Demystifying Oxford: Academic hiring at the Faculty of Law can be found on the right hand side of the page. (Fac website only)

Deadline date:  Midday on Tuesday 7 November 2023