Lecturer in Law

The Law School is the longest established department within the University of Hull. We are a well-established, reputable provider of legal education in the UK, Europe and worldwide. Our mission is to integrate the best traditions of legal scholarship into a modern context, and to teach and research law in a manner which reflects the diverse nature of the School’s staff and student body. We seek to maintain a broad, critical and innovative approach to legal education, often driven by original research, which opens opportunities both within and beyond the legal profession..

The Law School has a strong reputation for the quality of the teaching in its undergraduate and postgraduate provision and as part of the Law School Vision and development strategy we are looking to find new members of staff that will help to build a dynamic and world leading research group which addresses the pressing needs of Global Sustainability and Climate Change and Environmental Law. As such you will be contributing to the development of new and progressive curricula which involves new methods of delivery and technologies which support learning and teaching and innovative approaches to law subjects.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

As part of our continuing approach to developing our curriculum to reflect the University’s commitment to a Carbon neutral campus we are looking to develop a further research strand which builds on this commitment to our Environment Law group and to informing the curriculum on our Global Sustainability Environmental and Climate change.  Your role is one which focuses on Research within this sector, which will focus on Law of the Sea, Deep Sea bed mining, Energy and connected fields. You will be expected to demonstrate active involvement in high quality research, in your area, but also a commitment to teaching and learning on our Undergraduate and Postgraduate programmes. We are looking for staff members that can also look to contribute to our Tort and Land Law provision. You will also be involved in the supervision of LLM dissertations, as well as more broadly throughout the curriculum.

The role holder will contribute through a range of teaching styles, from traditional lectures to practical workshops, tutorials and seminars as well as offering individual undergraduate, and postgraduate research project supervision, where appropriate.

The University is committed to a Carbon neutral footprint and as such Environmental and Climate change Law is integral to the Law School’s mission. The research element of the post will require the role holder to engage actively in the research culture of the Law School in accordance with the Law School’s published research strategy. The key elements of this include the publication of high-quality scholarly outputs in peer-reviewed journals and other appropriate means of dissemination, applying for and generating research funding, offering supervision to postgraduate research students and undertaking collaborative research with colleagues both within and outside the Law School.

For more information please contact Caroline Gibby Head of Law School - c.j.gibby@hull.ac.uk

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