Lecturer (Teaching) In Business Law

The School of Management is seeking to appoint a Lecturer/Assistant Professor (Teaching) in Business Law to join the Accounting, Finance and Law Division.

The School of Management is a vibrant and productive community. In the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF), Times Higher ranked the School 7th in the UK for Business and Management Studies and 4th in the UK for its research environment. As much as 93% of research is classed as world leading and internationally excellent.

Law is taught across the range of undergraduate courses as well as some postgraduate modules. The role of this post in the Department’s overall teaching strategy is to support undergraduate teaching of law through seminars and assessments. This includes developing emerging programmes as part of curriculum transformation and initiating innovative approaches to teaching and assessment.

The Law Team offer undergraduates a range of law modules throughout their degree programmes, some modules are compulsory and some are optional, which allows students to choose a “law stream” if they wish. Teaching within the Law Team allows each lecturer to develop their specialities as well as working together in delivering key context for first year students.

The School is looking to engage someone with excellent teaching skills to assume responsibilities within the specific areas of contract, tort and company law.

The role will involve teaching first and second year students through seminars and lectures. This would include taking responsibility for one first year module covering both lectures and seminars, and supporting other members of the team in running seminars. Most first year modules cover principles of contract and tort law, focussing on the business relevance. In addition seminar support would be required for modules covering Company and Business Law. Pastoral care for personal tutees as allocated by the School will be part of the role.

Applicants with professional legal qualifications and extensive practice experience are encouraged to apply.

The University of Bath and the School of Management currently hold a Silver award and the School actively participates in equality, diversity and inclusion initiatives. We are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community – a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed to our fullest potential. We offer a full range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, campus facilities and services to support all staff.

Informal enquiries may be made to Machaela Parkin, email mnsmm@bath.ac.uk or Janet Wilson-Ward, email jcww20@bath.ac.uk.

What we can offer you:

• a very generous employer contributory pension scheme
• generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
• we are a family-friendly University and with an increasingly agile workforce, are open to flexible working arrangements
• an excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• a wide range of personal and professional development opportunities
• a number of support options available for new and existing staff to help with the cost of some immigration expenses which you may be eligible for: Relocation allowance, Visa Reimbursement, Interest-Free Loan.

Find out more about our benefits.

We consider ourselves to be an inclusive university, where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students, so we encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on our teams.

We are very proud to be an autism friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

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