Lecturer - Law & Ethics

Overview
Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our Strategic Plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's Mission and Values

Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:

1. Students are our top priority.
2. We strive for excellence.
3. We thrive on diversity.
4. We celebrate collaboration.
5. We champion innovation.
6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
7. We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
8. We act ethically.
9. We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

About the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology
Scheller College's undergraduate and MBA programs are ranked top five in both management information systems as well as business analytics specialties by US News and World Report (2023 - 2024). The College's Full-time MBA Program is ranked No. 4 and No. 9 among public universities by Bloomberg BusinessWeek (2022 - 2023) and U.S. News & World Report (2023 - 2024) respectively. Georgia Tech is one of the nation's leading research universities and consistently ranks among the top public universities in the country. Atlanta is the 6th largest metropolitan area in the U.S. and serves as a cultural and economic hub for the region.

The Law & Ethics area consists of world class business legal academics focused on bridging law and business to enhance business practices, decision making, and legal policy. Our lecturers have drawn on their legal education, practice experience, and a dedication to education to offer fundamentals of business law and develop electives of particular interest to them and the GA Tech community. They also engage with service at the highest levels and engage with advancing teaching/professional knowledge and excellence. Our area includes the former Dean of Scheller College; internationally recognized experts on cybersecurity and law, one of whom has served in the White House and as one of five experts on President Obama's Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technology; a former Skadden fellow and leader in using machine learning techniques to study and improve the court system; and the former Academic Research Counsel to Google, Inc. who also worked on the Cory Booker for Mayor campaign. The area has published in top law reviews and journals including, U. Penn Law Review, N.Y.U. Law Review, Texas Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, American Business Law Journal, Business Ethics Quarterly, Yale Journal on Regulation. Area members have also served as editors for and authored several books.

Atlanta, GA

The Law & Ethics Area in the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in Atlanta, Georgia is seeking Non-Tenure track faculty candidates at the rank of Lecturer of Law & Ethics.

Responsibilities include teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels, conducting research, and providing service to the College, Institute, and the law & ethics profession. Faculty will be required to have a teaching load of three (3 semester hours each) courses per year. The salary is competitive with leading research universities.

Instruction duties will involve coverage of the core Legal Aspects of Business survey class at the undergraduate level. The ability to teach business ethics at the MBA level is also possible and desired. In addition, as Scheller Lecturers are academic professionals, candidates with the ability to teach electives are preferred. Examples of past electives and current needs range from entrepreneurship to real estate to international business to commercial law. A desire to publish research or practical writing is encouraged and welcome.

In general candidates will be expected to offer:

• Excellence in classroom instruction in subjects related to law, business ethics, entrepreneurship, and innovation management at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
• Commitment to service and student-engagement at the College and Institute level and beyond.
• Dedication to participation and leadership in professional activities, such as presenting at important professional conferences and engagement with the business/law community.
• Excellence in advancing teaching and professional knowledge.
• Candidates should possess demonstrated potential for excellent scholarly research.

Candidates should have a Master's degree in the area of Law or associated discipline.

Candidates should be sufficiently advanced in their work (J.D. required J.D./PhD welcome) and will need to complete their degree(s) by July 01, 2025.

To apply, please visit https://bit.ly/3KETDhu

Applicants not currently holding a tenure track position should submit the following:

1. A cover letter.
2. Vita including education, research interests/publications, work experience and other relevant information.
3. One or more sample research papers.
4. Names and contact information for a minimum of three references should be submitted with other application materials by candidates who do not currently hold a tenure-track position at another institution.

Please make sure that your name also appears in the I of the recommendation letter (e.g., "Smith_Shawn - Letter of Recommendation.pdf').

Note: Candidates who currently hold a tenure-track or full-time lecturer position at another institution should provide the names and contact information for a minimum of three references. For this category of applicants, letters of recommendation will be requested at a stage in the process and only for the top candidates (as determined by the Recruiting Committee upon evaluation of the applicant's package).

Correspondence should be addressed to the Chair, Law and Ethics Recruiting Committee. Initial screening of applications will begin immediately.

The positions will remain opened until filled. Questions should be submitted to: recruit.law@scheller.gatech.edu

The University System of Georgia is comprised of our 26 institutions of higher education and learning as well as the System Office. Our USG Statement of Core Values are Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect. These values serve as the foundation for all that we do as an organization, and each USG community member is responsible for demonstrating and upholding these standards. More details on the USG Statement of Core Values and Code of Conduct are available in USG Board Policy 8.2.18.1.2 and can be found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section8/C224/#p8.2.18_personnel_conduct.

Additionally, USG supports Freedom of Expression as stated in Board Policy 6.5 Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section6/C2653.

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. The University is committed to maintaining a fair and respectful environment for all. To that end, and in accordance with federal and state law, Board of Regents policy, and University policy, Georgia Tech provides equal opportunity to all faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including applicants for admission and/or employment, contractors, volunteers, and participants in institutional programs, activities, or services. Georgia Tech complies with all applicable laws and regulations governing equal opportunity in the workplace and in educational activities.

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More information on these policies can be found here: https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section6/c2714 Board of Regents Policy Manual | University System of Georgia (usg.edu).

The candidate of choice will be required to pass a pre-employment background screening. http://policylibrary.gatech.edu/employment/pre-employment-screening.