Graduate Teaching Assistants 2023-24
The Faculty is offering Graduate Teaching Assistantships for 2023-24 in the following subjects:
- Advanced Criminal Law
- Civil Dispute Resolution
- Comparative Law
- Competition Law & Policy
- Criminal Law
- Criminology and Criminal Justice
- Employment Law
- Environmental Law
- History of English Law
- Human Rights Law
- Medical Law & Ethics
- Moral and Political Philosophy
- Personal Property
- Public International Law
- Taxation Law
Further details of each of these roles is provided below.
To be eligible to apply, you must be a current research student in the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, and should have completed the Preparation for Teaching and Learning course. Please also refer to our general page about the GTA programme.
Remuneration
Each GTA will be paid either a half or full honorarium depending on the total hours of work (half retainer for up to 24 tutorial hours, or a full retainer for up to 48 tutorial hours); and can claim payment from the Faculty for any approved associated administrative work; and should claim payment from the relevant college(s) for any undergraduate teaching that they do. Please refer to our separate page about the GTA scheme for the 2023-24 faculty rates of pay.
We have sought to be as clear as possible in this advertisement about what work will be required of the GTA, but inevitably some hours may vary slightly from what is advertised. Please note that all work should only be undertaken at the express request of the relevant Convenor.
The GTA may work up to the weekly limit on paid work specified by the Faculty (8 hours per week, or a common-sense average across the year).
Duties other than college teaching
If requested by the Convenor and included in the advertisement, the GTA role may include tasks not directly connected to the GTA's own teaching, such as: answering queries from students on behalf of the Convenor, organising tutorials for other tutors, or updating the core reading list. Such work will be agreed with the convenor at the time of appointment, including the number of hours of work, and payment will be made upon the submission of approved timesheets.
For payroll purposes, annual leave will be assumed to be taken in the month in which it was accrued.
How to apply
Please write by e-mail to geraldine.malloy@law.ox.ac.uk by the deadline stated above, indicating clearly for which subject or subjects you wish to be considered, and outlining your suitability for the position. Please also attach a brief CV.
Although previous teaching experience will not be required, applicants should demonstrate evidence of aptitude for teaching if they are able to do so.
Applicants must have completed the parts of the Faculty's PLTO that are available online on Canvas. Applicants must also arrange for two referees to write directly to geraldine.malloy@law.ox.ac.uk by the same deadline.
GTAs from previous years may reapply.
The selection process
Applications and references will be sent to the relevant Convenor, and eligible candidates will be interviewed by a panel, with at least two members of the teaching group. In the event of any subject having a large number of applicants, the subject group members may draw up a shortlist and only interview the shortlisted candidates.
Applicants will be informed of the outcome of their application as soon as possible.
The Graduate Teaching Assistantships available next academic year:
1. ADVANCED CRIMINAL LAW
Convenor: Jonathan Herring
Number of GTAs required: 1
Full or half retainer: full (teaching + administration)
Term(s): Michaelmas 2023 and Hilary 2024
Topic(s): Mods and ACL Crime topics
Tutorial hours: 20
Administrative and related tasks: Answering queries; organising seminars and tutorials (ACL has a number of outside speakers and also complex tutorials arrangements); co-ordination and work on the reading lists.
2. CIVIL DISPUTE RESOLUTION
Convenor: Andrew Higgins
Number of GTAs required: 1
Full or half retainer: one full or two half
Term(s): Hilary and Trinity Terms 2024
Topic(s): up to 3 topics
Tutorial hours: 35
Administrative and related tasks: marking collections
3. COMPARATIVE LAW
Convenor: Ciara Kennefick
Number of GTAs required: 1
Full or half retainer: half
Term(s): Michaelmas 2023 and Hilary 2024
Topic(s): Property and Contract
Tutorial hours: 20
Administrative and related tasks: None
4. COMPETITION LAW & POLICY
Convenor: Ariel Ezrachi
Number of GTAs required: 1
Full or half retainer: half
Term(s): Michaelmas 2023 and Hilary 2024
Topic(s): Competition Law
Tutorial hours: 28
Administrative and related tasks: Co-ordinate tutorials, plus the GTA may be asked separately to mark examination scripts.
5. CRIMINAL LAW
Convenor: Jonathan Herring
Number of GTAs required: 1
Full or half retainer: full
Term(s): Michaelmas 2023 and Hilary 2024
Topic(s): Mods and ACL Crim topics
Tutorial hours: 20
Administrative and related tasks: Answering queries; organising seminars and tutorials (ACL has a number of outside speakers and also complex tutorials arrangements); co-ordination and work on the reading lists.
6. CRIMINOLOGY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Convenor: Leila Ulrich
Number of GTAs required: 1
Full or half retainer: one full or two half
Term(s): Michaelmas Term 2023, Hilary Term 2024
Topic(s): There will be one tutorial per thematic bloc and the GTAs can choose which tutorial topics within the bloc they would like to focus on depending on their research expertise/interest. The thematic blocs are: 1. Criminology: A Multi-Disciplinary Study of Crime and Criminal Justice, 2. New Forms of Criminological Knowledge, 3. Criminal Justice Institutions, Processes and Actors and 4.Global Approaches to Criminal Justice and their Alternatives.
Tutorial hours: 48 (or 24 each)
Administrative and related tasks: answering student queries, organizing the tutorials, coordinating with the FHS convenor and different FHS lecturers, updating the reading list (10-15 hours)
7. EMPLOYMENT LAW
Convenor: Anne Davies
Number of GTAs required: 2
Full or half retainer: half
Term(s): Michaelmas Term 2023 and Hilary Term 2024
Topic(s): spread across the whole syllabus
Tutorial hours: 45 (shared). One GTA will deliver three tutorial topics to the whole group, and the other will deliver two tutorial topics to the whole group.
Administrative and related tasks: only organising the GTA's own tutorials, plus writing reports and returning marked collections.
8. ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
Convenor: Joanna Bell
Number of GTAs required: 1
Full or half retainer: half
Term(s): Michaelmas Term 2023 and Hilary Term 2024
Topic(s): precise details would be arranged with the GTA but the FHS Environmental Law programme offers six tutorials in the following topics: 1) Environmental problems and UK environmental law and governance, 2) EU law, environmental principles and waste 3) Planning 4) EIA and nature conservation 5) Climate change, air and water quality 6) Public participation, access to justice and ecological theories
Tutorial hours: c. 24
Administrative and related tasks: none
9. HISTORY OF ENGLISH LAW
Convenor: Ciara Kennefick
Number of GTAs required: 1
Full or half retainer: half
Term(s): Michaelmas Term 2023 and Hilary Term 2024
Topic(s): three of the following fours topics: 1.Sources (early law reports and treatises); 2.Land Law (feudalism, tenures and actions for the recovery of land); 3.Land Law (Inheritance, family settlements, leases and estates); 4 .Uses and Trusts
Tutorial hours: 18
Administrative and related tasks: none
10. HUMAN RIGHTS LAW
Convenor: Nicholas Bamforth
Number of GTAs required: 1
Full or half retainer: half
Term(s): Michaelmas 2023, Hilary and Trinity 2024
Topic(s): All topics covered in lectures, divided between the five tutorials (so roughly three topics per tutorial, subject to agreement based on the lecture list year-on-year).
Tutorial hours: if the GTA does tutorials, this will be 5 x 2-3 hours in each of MT and HT, then up to 8 hours of revision in TT (i.e., 18-23 hours in total).
Also by agreement, one of the weekly 2-hour lectures in Hilary Term.
Administrative and related tasks: This is the main area of work. Act as initial point of contact for answering queries, deal with queries, distribute information to students, organise lectures and tutorials. 1-2 hours per week in Michaelmas and Hilary, and around 2 hours in total in Trinity Term.
11. MEDICAL LAW & ETHICS
Convenor: Imogen Goold
Number of GTAs required: 1
Full or half retainer: full
Term(s): Michaelmas Term 2023, Hilary Term 2024 and Trinity Term 2024
Topic(s): the GTA would take one topic from the 5 on the course, and can suggest which topic they would prefer to teach.
Tutorial hours: up to 48
Administrative and related tasks: answering queries, organising tutorials for other tutors, updating the core reading list.
12. MORAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Convenor: Grant Lamond
Number of GTAs required: 1
Full or half retainer: full
Term(s): Michaelmas Term 2023 and Hilary Term 2024
Topic(s): 6 (four topics in Moral Philosophy, two topics in Political Philosophy)
Tutorial hours: 48
Administrative and related tasks: organising own tutorials, answering queries, assistin in the updating of the core reading list
13. PERSONAL PROPERTY
Convenor: William Swadling
Number of GTAs required: 1
Full or half retainer: half
Term(s): Michaelmas Term 2023, Hilary and Trinity Terms 2024
Topic(s): Two of the following: (i) Protection of Property Rights in Goods; (ii) Types and Creation of Property Rights in Goods; (iii) Transfer of Property Rights in Goods; (iv) Destruction of Property Rights in Goods and Security Rights. The topics will be agreed with Professor William Swadling and Dr Luke Rostill.
Tutorial hours: 16 plus assistance with presenting one seminar (in Hilary Term)
Administrative and related tasks: none (though the GTA may be asked separately to help with FHS script marking)
14. PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW
Convenor: Lavanya Rajamani
Number of GTAs required: 4
Full or half retainer: Two half retainers and two full retainers
Term(s): Michaelmas Term 2023, Hilary Term 2024, and a revision session in Trinity Term 2024
Topic(s): Nature and Sources of International Law; The Law of Treaties; International Persons - States, Individuals, and International Organizations; Jurisdiction and Immunities; International Dispute Settlement; Use of Force; and, State Responsibility.
Tutorial hours: 42 each (or 24 for half retainer)
Administrative and related tasks: assigning and organising tutorial teaching and collections across colleges (between GTAs); responding to queries relating to tutorial teaching; contributing to updating the core reading list; attending preparatory sessions organized by the PIL Faculty as well as lectures, if necessary, to align tutorial teaching with the lectures. 8-10 hours across the year
15. TAXATION LAW
Convenor: Glen Loutzenhiser
Number of GTAs required: 1
Full or half retainer: half
Term(s): some in Michaelmas Term 2023, but primarily in Hilary Term 2024
Topic(s): UK Employment and Self Employment Taxation
Tutorial hours: 20
Administrative and related tasks: administrative tasks including organising tutorials for other tutors and answering queries