Legal Writing Prof Blog

Widener University Delaware Law School is Hiring and Looking for Visitors

Widener University Delaware Law School, located in Wilmington, Delaware, currently has multiple full-time, tenure-track faculty opportunities available to begin January 1, 2025, or July 1, 2025. Applications for visitors for the upcoming Spring 2025 Semester are also welcome.

They welcome applications from candidates with teaching interests in required and bar-tested courses. The list of courses includes:

• Academic Success
• Civil Procedure
• Constitutional Law
• Corporate Law
• Contracts
• Criminal Law
• Criminal Procedure
• Evidence
• Legal Research and Writing
• Property Law
• Professional Responsibility
• Torts
• Wills and Trusts

Qualified candidates will have strong academic credentials, including at least a J.D. degree or its equivalent. Candidates should demonstrate evidence of and potential for innovative and impactful teaching, scholarship, and service to the Law School, the University, and the legal profession. They welcome applications from candidates who approach pedagogy and scholarship from a variety of perspectives and methods.

In its sixth decade, Delaware Law School is the oldest and only ABA-accredited law school in the nation’s First State of Delaware. It has civic-minded students and staff and a top-notch faculty featuring some of the most highly regarded teachers, legal scholars, and social change agents in the nation. The large corporate community in Delaware and the varieties of legal practice opportunities in neighboring Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland offer students an unusually rich array of opportunities for experiential learning through internships and externships, a public interest law center, and numerous clinical programs.

Hat tip to Nyla Millar

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Students at DePaul and Elon Win Disability Law Writing Competition

The Adam A. Milani Disability Law Writing Competition is a national disability law writing competition sponsored by the Mercer University School of Law and the ABA Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law. The competition honors the work of the late Professor Adam Milani, a passionate advocate for disability rights, an accomplished legal scholar, and a beloved faculty member at Mercer Law School.

The first-place winner of the 2024 competition is Adam Levinson, DePaul University College of Law.

The second-place winner is Ivey Schofield, Elon University School of Law.

Hat tip to Suzianne D. Painter-Thorne

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Georgetown Law is Hiring

Georgetown Law seeks a full-time faculty member to teach in their first-year Legal Practice program. The position starts July 1, 2025. The faculty member will teach two sections of the first-year course. Each section meets with the professor two hours per week. Professors are responsible for selecting their own texts, designing course materials, assigning student grades, and supervising law fellows. Legal Practice faculty at Georgetown also teach a two-hour weekly seminar with six law fellows, who serve as teaching assistants for the first-year students.

Candidates must have superior academic records and expertise in legal research, writing, and analysis. Three years of professional experience beyond law school and teaching experience is strongly preferred. Applicants should include a letter of interest, a CV, a list of three references, a writing sample, and (for more recent graduates) a law school transcript.

Materials should be submitted via the Georgetown faculty search portal. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis and are due no later than Monday, November 1, 2021. Early submission is strongly recommended.

Hat tip to Michael Cedrone.

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2025 Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition

The 2025 problem for the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition is scheduled to be released within the next 24 hours. Click here for more information.

Approximately 700 schools from 100 countries are expected to participate in the Jessup, making it the world's largest moot court competition.

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Dayton is Hiring

The University of Dayton School of Law invites applications for multiple tenure-track Assistant Professor positions to begin August 16, 2025. Areas of need include contracts, business organizations, torts, criminal law, criminal procedure, evidence, family law, property, wills and trusts, secured transactions, and tax. Click here for more information.

Hat tip to Daniel Craine.

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Case Western Reserve is Hiring

Case Western Reserve University School of Law is accepting applications for a Lawyering Skills Assistant Professor position beginning July 2025 to teach in its Legal Writing, Leadership, Experiential Education, Advocacy, and Professionalism (“LLEAP”) program. Click here for more information.

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