Baylor Law seeks a highly qualified individual to join its Practice Court faculty. Practice Court is a unique and acclaimed program within the legal community and academia because of its success in transforming law students into practice-ready trial lawyers. Practice Court professors are experienced trial lawyers as well as well-regarded academicians. This tenure-track faculty position will teach a required third year course in advanced civil procedure, as well as oversee rigorous classroom exercises in trial skills. A successful candidate must have extensive knowledge of Federal and Texas civil procedure including jurisdiction, venue, pleadings, investigation of claims, discovery, judgments as a matter of law, the jury trial, post-verdict and post-judgment motions, and evidence. Experience with or graduation from the Baylor Practice Court program is a plus. We expect this search to be extremely competitive and selective. The Faculty Appointments Committee welcomes expressions of interest in all areas, especially from candidates who will add to the diversity of our faculty. For more information, please go to: https://www.baylor.edu/law/facultystaff/index.php?id=980341.
Baylor University is a private Christian university and a nationally ranked research institution, consistently listed with highest honors among The Chronicle of Higher Education’s “Great Colleges to Work For.” The university is recruiting new faculty with a deep commitment to excellence in teaching, research and scholarship. Baylor seeks faculty who share in our aspiration to become a tier one research institution while strengthening our distinctive Christian mission as described in our strategic vision, Pro Futuris. (www.baylor.edu/profuturis/). As the world’s largest Baptist University, Baylor offers over 40 doctoral programs and has almost 17,000 students from all 50 states and more than 80 countries. Baylor University is a private not-for-profit university affiliated with the Baptist General Convention of Texas. As an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer, Baylor is committed to compliance with all applicable anti-discrimination laws, including those regarding age, race, color, sex, national origin, marital status, pregnancy status, military service, genetic information, and disability. As a religious educational institution, Baylor is lawfully permitted to consider an ...applicant’s religion as a selection criterion. Baylor encourages women, minorities, veterans and individuals with disabilities to apply.
