Call for Applications | Assistant Professors (One – Year Contract)

The National Law School of India University (NLSIU) invites applications from well-qualified individuals, dedicated to academic teaching, scholarship and institutional service for the position of Assistant Professor.

Assistant Professor (One – Year Contract)

Subjects: Contracts, Public International Law, Family Law, Law and Development, Human Rights Law, Civil Procedure Code, Property Law, Administrative Law, Intellectual Property Rights Law, Legal Theory, Economics.

Duties and responsibilities:

1. To provide an average of 6 hours per week during term of undergraduate and/or graduate class teaching averaged across the three twelve-week teaching terms of the year and to provide feedback on students’ work.
2. To design and deliver lectures or classes over the year during term time to undergraduates and/or graduates; and to produce lecture notes, course materials, and reading lists as required. In addition, to design and deliver lectures and classes over the year in the University’s Professional and Continuing Education department.
3. To liaise, as required, with other faculty teaching the subject.
4. To undertake an appropriate share of other Faculty administrative duties, dependent on career-stage, including service on committees.
5. To participate in the governance, intellectual life, and academic activities of the University.

Who Should Apply?

Essential Qualifications

1. A master’s degree with at least 55% marks (or an equivalent grade in a point-scale, wherever the grading system is followed).
2. Communication, interpersonal, time management and organizational skills necessary to undertake pastoral care and administration for both undergraduate and graduate students and the ability to work with students from diverse backgrounds to enable them to reach their full potential.

Desirable Qualifications

1. Candidates who have published in high-quality academic journals will be preferred.
2. Candidates with demonstrated academic excellence in their university education will be preferred.
3. Candidates should demonstrate evidence of the skills needed for higher education teaching and a research record commensurate with the stage of their career.
4. Candidates should demonstrate their commitment to the University’s goals and objectives.

How to apply?

Interested candidates are required to submit applications through online mode only by completing the Google form available here, and uploading copies of all required certificates. Without these certificates, the application form will not be considered.

Your application must include:

1. A statement of purpose of not more than 800 words.
2. A full CV that includes a publications list.
3. A sample or samples or written work, published or unpublished (co-authored pieces should be identified as such). In the case of pieces of written work exceeding 20,000 words, candidates should indicate which part or parts they wish to draw to the attention of the selection committee.
4. Details of two references.

Application Deadline

The last date for the submission of the application is 5:00 pm, 23rd September (Monday), 2024.

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