Graduate Teaching Assistant Positions
Please refer to the description of the scheme before applying.
How to apply
- Applicants must have completed the Faculty’s PLTO.
- Please submit your application no later than midday on Friday 12 June 2026. Submission of this form will automatically send you a link to upload (i) your CV and (ii) a statement outlining your suitability for the position. 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 also arrange for two referees to write directly to lawgta.reference@law.ox.ac.uk by the same deadline.
GTAs from previous years may reapply.
Deadline: Midday on Friday 12 June 2026
GTA positions available for 2026-27
Subject: Advanced Criminal Law
Convenor: Matt Dyson
Number of GTA positions available: 1
Full or half retainer: Full
Term(s): Michaelmas, Hilary
Topic(s): Criminal law, examples include sexual offences and violence against women.
Expected tutorial teaching hours: 32 hours
Administrative and related tasks: Co-ordinating lecturers (particularly those from outside Oxford), updating the reading list, answering emails.
Subject: Civil Dispute Resolution
Convenor: Andrew Higgins
Number of GTA positions available: 2
Full or half retainer: Full
Term(s): Michaelmas, Hilary, and Trinity
Topic(s): GTA will be required to teach tutorials across all topics: (1) the right to a fair trial, (2) litigation procedures and Civil Procedure Rules, (3) alternative dispute resolution, and (4) theories of procedural justice.
Expected tutorial teaching hours: Up to 37 hours
Administrative and related tasks: Collection and tutorial essay marking and updating the reading list.
Subject: Company Law
Convenor: Christopher Hare
Number of GTA positions available: 1
Full or half retainer: Full
Term(s): Michaelmas, Hilary (expected to teach all in MT, or all in HT, or across the two terms).
Topic(s): The GTA will be required to teach across the entire Company Law syllabus, which includes the topics of Corporate Personality, Company Contracting, Division of Powers, Directors’ Loyalty Duty, Corporate Capital and Shareholder Remedies, Creditor Protection, and EU Company Law.
Expected tutorial teaching hours: 32 hours
Administrative and related tasks: (a) mark tutorial essays; (b) mark collections; (c) deal with email queries from students; and (d) offer any revision classes.
Subject: Comparative Law
Convenor: Lionel Smith
Number of GTA positions available: 1
Full or half retainer: Half
Term(s): Michaelmas, Hilary
Topic(s): The GTA will be expected to deliver the final tutorial, which is an overview of the whole option.
Expected tutorial teaching hours: Up to 6 hours
Administrative and related tasks: tutorial essay marking, answering email queries from students, assisting with reading list updates, and attending as many of the seminars as possible (about 20 hours across MT and HT).
Subject: Copyright, Trade Marks and Allied Rights
Convenor: Dev Gangjee
Number of GTA positions available: 3
Full or half retainer: Full
Term(s): Michaelmas, Hilary
Topic(s): Copyright and Trade Marks
Expected tutorial teaching hours: Up to 48 hours
Administrative and related tasks: collection marking, tutorial essay marking, tutorial scheduling, answering email queries from students, assisting with reading list updates, course Canvas site management.
Subject: Criminology and Criminal Justice
Convenor: Alethia Fernández de la Reguera
Number of GTA positions available: 1 - 2
Full or half retainer: Full (where one applicant covers the full teaching allocation). If teaching is shared between two GTAs, the retainer will be divided equally.
Term(s): Michaelmas, Hilary, and Trinity
Topic(s): Criminology, Punishment, Sociological Approaches to Crime and Criminal Justice, Race, Gender, Police, Victims, Prisons and Punishment, Border Criminology, Decolonial Criminology.
Expected tutorial teaching hours: 28 hours (or a share of 28 hours if two applicants are appointed).
Administrative and related tasks: collection marking, tutorial essay marking, answering email queries from students.
Subject: Family Law
Convenor: Jonathan Herring
Number of GTA positions available: 1
Full or half retainer: Half
Term(s): Michaelmas, Hilary
Topic(s): Child protection and child disputes
Expected tutorial teaching hours: 15 hours
Administrative and related tasks: assisting reading list updates and answering email queries from students.
Subject: Feminist Perspectives in Law
Convenor: Barbara Havelková
Number of GTA positions available: 1
Full or half retainer: Half
Term(s): Michaelmas, Hilary
Topic(s): Any topics of the syllabus, which includes Violence Against Women and Refugee Protection; Equal Pay and Climate Justice; Gender and Reproduction; and Private Law.
Expected tutorial teaching hours: 20 hours
Administrative and related tasks: Attending seminars, assisting with reading list, arranging seminar schedule, and responding to student queries.
Subject: History of English Law
Convenor: Ian Williams
Number of GTA positions available: 1 - 2 (depending on applicants' expertise)
Full or half retainer: Full (where one applicant covers the full teaching allocation). If teaching is shared between two GTAs to reflect subject expertise, the retainer will be divided equally.
Term(s): Michaelmas, Hilary
Topic(s): Tort 1100-1400; Contract 1100-1650; Land Law 1100-1600; Uses and Trusts 1200-1650.
Expected tutorial teaching hours: 44 hours (or a share of 44 hours if two applicants are appointed)
Administrative and related tasks: Tutorial essay marking for relevant tutorials.
Subject: Law and Technology
Convenor: Justine Pila
Number of GTA positions available: 1
Full or half retainer: Full
Term(s): Michaelmas, Hilary
Topic(s): AI and data regulation, including GDPR; patent law and the regulation of assisted reproductive technologies.
Expected tutorial teaching hours: 36 hours
Administrative and related tasks: to be agreed with successful applicant.
Subject: Medical Law and Ethics
Convenor: Jaime Lindsey
Number of GTA positions available: 1
Full or half retainer: Full
Term(s): Michaelmas, Hilary
Topic(s): One round of tutorials flexible around the expertise of the GTA, but may include autonomy, consent, and capacity; reproductive medicine and abortion; medical negligence; death and dying; and/or human tissue.
Expected tutorial teaching hours: 30 hours
Administrative and related tasks: responding to student queries, assistance with reading list updates, maintenance of canvas system, and other support related to the course.
Subject: Moral and Political Philosophy
Convenor: Grant Lamond
Number of GTA positions available: 1
Full or half retainer: Full
Term(s): Michaelmas, Hilary, and Trinity
Topic(s): Tutorial teaching in all of the topics in moral and political philosophy, viz: (1) objectivity of ethics; (2) amorality and anti-morality; (3) utilitarianism; (4) Kant and the ethics of duty; (5) Aristotle and virtue ethics; (6) value pluralism; (7) moral responsibility; (8) moral luck; (9) liberty; (10) equality; (11) justice; and (12) democracy.
Expected tutorial teaching hours: 48 hours
Administrative and related tasks: arrange tutorials, mark tutorial essays, answer emails from students about the tutorials and the course, and mark collections.
Subject: Public International Law
Convenor: Miles Jackson
Number of GTA positions available: 5
Full or half retainer: Half
Term(s): Michaelmas, Hilary, and Trinity
Topic(s): Tutorial teaching in all topics of the syllabus, including: Nature and Sources of International Law; Treaties; Subjects; Jurisdiction and Immunity; Dispute Settlement; State Responsibility; and Use of Force.
Expected tutorial teaching hours: 24 hours each
Administrative and related tasks: Collection marking, tutorial essay marking, assisting with reading list updates, queries from students.
Subject: Taxation Law
Convenor: Edwin Simpson
Number of GTA positions available: 1
Full or half retainer: Full
Term(s): Michaelmas, Hilary, and Trinity
Topic(s): Employment income tax, business income tax, tax policy, tax avoidance, capital taxes, and possibly taxation of trusts.
Expected tutorial teaching hours: Up to 48 hours
Administrative and related tasks: supporting the Departmental Lecturer, supporting the administration and organisation of the course (e.g., room booking, the course's canvas pages and reading lists) and marking collections.