Associate Professor of Law (Dubai)

Role Summary

Contribute at a senior level on a sustained basis to the whole range of administration and teaching leadership. In addition, you will be expected to contribute to academic citizenship, likely to be demonstrated through generous, mutually respectful and supportive working relationships with all staff and students.

Teaching will include: (a) development and leadership of major teaching programmes or equivalent, such as the new Bachelor of Commercial Law programme; and (b) enhancement of the student experience or employability, that are of manifest benefit to the College and the University. It is expected that you will demonstrate a significant contribution to the advancement of teaching (policy, practice, standards) of the subject, provide leadership in teaching and learning that is innovative to the subject area or institution, with a significant contribution to the debate nationally about teaching. You will be expected to teach a range of undergraduate modules across the breadth of foundational legal education, as well as some specialist modules. 

In addition to the teaching elements of the role, you will perform the role of Head of Department for the Law School in Dubai. This will include leadership and management activity with University wide involvement – for example through sustained high value impact knowledge transfer, enterprise, business engagement, public engagement or similar activities, and also being the lead contact for reporting back to the main campus in Birmingham and working with the Dean and senior leadership team of Birmingham Law School as well as the College Director for Global Engagement.

Main Duties

Education

You will contribute across the range of teaching and learning activities:

• Making a significant contribution to the pedagogical knowledge base of the subject that advances teaching through the enhancement of practice, the development of teaching resources and/or through practice-based research.
• Leading on the management and the development of approaches to teaching and learning, including designing innovative approaches and supporting colleagues to use them in the subject area or institution.
• Leading on curriculum design at module and programme level to ensure it is contemporary, inclusive, engaging and academically challenging.
• Actively engaging students in curriculum design.

Person Specification

• Normally, a higher Degree relevant to the discipline area (usually PhD) or equivalent qualifications. An LLM is essential for candidates without a PhD. 
• Demonstrated excellence in Learning and Teaching, and Management and administration.

Learning and teaching requirements

An excellent teaching profile and performance in terms of both impact and quality, with experience of teaching English Law. Teaching quality demonstrated to be informed by an appropriate level of scholarship. 

Evidence of success under the following headings.

• High national reputation for the development of teaching and learning excellence within the discipline
• Successful and sustained use of a range of appropriate teaching methods, and assessment strategies that promote high quality learning, including learning that is flexible, distinctive and current and stimulates learners’ natural curiosity

For informal enquiries, please contact Paul McConnell (Edgbaston Campus) p.j.mcconnell@bham.ac.uk

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Closes: 27^th April 2025

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