Job Number:  01-240718-03: Business Law Faculty

Company Name:  University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law


The University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law seeks to hire for an entry level or lateral tenure-track or tenured faculty position in Business Law and related fields, which will begin in Fall 2025. The School of Law is looking for faculty members with a strong commitment to educating lawyers for the twenty-first century and those who will actively participate in our collegial, collaborative community. We encourage applications from candidates who would add diversity to our faculty.

UMKC offers a wide range of traditional Business Law courses and also several projects-based and experiential learning courses and programs, some of which are interdisciplinary and involve interactions with departments in UMKC’s Henry W. Bloch School of Management and other academic units. As part of the J.D. program, students may earn a Business and Entrepreneurial Law Emphasis. Additionally, students with potential interest in business-related fields are presented with a variety of skills training options through a team-taught Transactional Lawyering Skills Lab course and other simulation courses, an Entrepreneurial Legal Services Clinic, an Intellectual Property Clinic, and competitions, internships, externships, and supervised independent study opportunities.

One component of the faculty position would be teaching a Business Organizations course. Beyond that, there is flexibility for candidates with business-oriented research and teaching interests to fashion a teaching package that might include a combination of courses from such subjects as Antitrust Law, Business Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions, Securities Regulation, Taxation of Corporations, co-teaching in the Transactional Lawyering Skills Lab course; and other courses such as Health Care Law or Business Planning where knowledge of organizational structures strongly overlaps. The teaching package might also include participation in one of our innovative projects-based interdisciplinary entrepreneurship courses operated out of the Law School-led Center for Law, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, which connects faculty, staff, and students from multiple UMKC academic units and other programs with projects and in many cases collaborators from other institutions and organizations. Many of the Law School’s entrepreneurship endeavors have been supported by funding from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. We also welcome the inclusion of one or more other courses that offer critical perspectives on business law, which the candidate might propose to enrich the Law School’s business curriculum.

Qualifications
A J.D. or equivalent degree is required.



Interested Parties/How to Apply:   

The Faculty Appointments Committee of the School of Law will review applications submitted through the UMKC Human Resources portal. For consideration, you must apply online at http://www.umkc.edu/jobs, click on Academic Positions (Job Opening ID 52378).

Please combine all application materials (personal letter of interest and applicable experience which qualifies you for a tenure-eligible faculty position, current curriculum vitae, and evidence of success in publication) into one PDF or Microsoft Word document and upload as your resume attachments. Limit document name to 50 characters and do not include any special characters (e.g., /, &, %, etc.).

For more information, please contact:

Mikah Thompson
Chair, Faculty Appointments Committee
UMKC School of Law
thompsonmikah@umkc.edu
816-235-2688


• If you are experiencing technical problems during application, please email umpshrsupport@umsystem.edu .
• Reasonable accommodations may be requested during the application and recruitment process. If you need an accommodation, please contact the Office of Affirmative Action at (816) 235-1323.
• Higher education transcripts and/or verification of J.D. will be required for candidates advancing as finalists.
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Handling of Application Materials
After initial review by the committee all uploaded materials may be shared with all faculty in the prospective home department. For affiliations and joint appointments materials may be shared with all faculty in all departments involved.


Application Deadline
Review of applications begins upon receipt. Applications will be accepted until this position is filled.