Department: Dean, Law
Salary: Commensurate with experience
Description:
The University of Houston Law Center (UHLC) invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position to begin in the academic year 2025-2026 with a primary doctrinal emphasis in criminal law.
Applicants for the position must hold a J.D. degree (or the equivalent) and should demonstrate the potential for success as scholars, teachers, and future members of the UH and the Law Center’s broader community. The primary teaching focus for the position is to cover the 1L doctrinal course for criminal law. Upper level course teaching options are flexible. Willingness to teach elsewhere in the Law Center curriculum, including other 1L courses, courses covered on the bar exam, or other upper level topics, is also a positive factor. Further information about the Law Center and its programs is available at: This search is coordinated by Professor and Assistant Dean Meredith Duncan, the chair of UHLC’s faculty appointments committee. Interested applicants can send questions to Prof. Duncan at mjduncan@central.uh.edu . The University of Houston Law Center boasts an accomplished and collegial faculty representing a wide range of backgrounds including over 20 who are members of the American Law Institute. The Law Center’s 2024 entering class has the strongest credentials in the school’s history as well as 52.2% students coming from underserved backgrounds: African American, Latinx, and Asian American. Fifty-one percent are women, almost 83.5% are first-generation law students, and over 18% are first-generation college students. Since Fall of 2022, the Law Center occupies a brand-new, world-class facility designed by award-winning architects. The University of Houston is a Carnegie-designated Tier One public research university. UH serves the globally competitive Houston and Gulf Coast Region by providing world-class faculty, experiential learning, and strategic industry partnerships. Located in the nation’s fourth-largest city and one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse regions in the country, UH is a federally designated Hispanic and Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving institution with an enrollment of more than 47,000 students. The University of Houston is responsive to the needs of dual career couples. QualificationsOfficial transcripts are required for a faculty appointment and will be requested upon selection of the final candidates. All positions at the University of Houston are security sensitive and will require a criminal background check.
The policy of the University of Houston-System and its universities is to ensure equal opportunity in all its educational programs and activities, and all terms and conditions of employment without regard to age, race, color, disability, religion, national origin, ethnicity, military status, genetic information, sex (including gender and pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or status, or gender expression, except where such a distinction is required by law.
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About University of Houston
Founded in 1927, the University of Houston is the leading public research university in the vibrant international city of Houston. Each year, we educate more than 40,750 students in more than 300 undergraduate and graduate academic programs, on campus and online. UH awards more than 8,000 degrees annually, with more than 200,000 alumni. UH is a Carnegie-designated Tier One public research university.
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