Professor - Health Law (Finance)
Department: Dean, Law
Salary: Commensurate with experience
Description:
The University of Houston Law Center (Law Center) invites applications for a tenured Full Professor position in health law to begin in the academic year 2025-2026. The successful candidate may also be eligible for a chair or professorship depending on experience and qualifications.
Applicants for the position must hold a J.D. degree (or the equivalent), have an excellent record of health law scholarship, have made substantial scholarly contributions to that specific discipline, possess a strong teaching record, and have a record that demonstrates a proven commitment to service.
The successful candidate will teach a section of the Law Center's 1L torts course. Other courses will be in or related to health law. The successful candidate will also be affiliated with the Law Center's top-ranked Health Law & Policy Institute (HLPI) ( https://www.law.uh.edu/healthlaw/ ).
Further information about the Law Center and its programs is available at: http://www.law.uh.edu .
This search is administratively coordinated by the chair of the Law Center's Faculty Appointments Committee, Alumnae College Professor of Law and Assistant Dean Meredith J. Duncan, mjduncan@central.uh.edu; after submitting your application in the system of this posting, please send Assistant Dean Duncan a courtesy email attaching a resume or curriculum vitae to that email.
The University of Houston Law Center is located in close proximity to the Texas Medical Center, the world's largest medical complex and an international leader in health and life sciences. The Law Center boasts an accomplished and collegial faculty representing a wide range of backgrounds including over 20 who are members of the American Law Institute. The Law Center's 2024 entering class has the strongest credentials in the school's history as well as 52.2% students coming from underserved backgrounds: African American, Latinx, and Asian American. Fifty-one percent are women, almost 83.5% are first-generation law students, and over 18% are first-generation college students. Since Fall of 2022, the Law Center occupies a brand-new, world-class facility designed by award-winning architects.
The University of Houston is a Carnegie-designated Tier One public research university. UH serves the globally competitive Houston and Gulf Coast Region by providing world-class faculty, experiential learning, and strategic industry partnerships. Located in the nation's fourth-largest city and one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse regions in the country, UH is a federally designated Hispanic and Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving institution with an enrollment of more than 47,000 students.
The University of Houston is responsive to the needs of dual career couples.
An attorney appointed to the position must, at a minimum, hold a J.D. degree from an ABA-accredited law school.
Qualifications
J.D. degree or equivalent.
Required Attachments
Curriculum Vitae
Official transcripts are required for a faculty appointment and will be requested upon selection of the final candidates. All positions at the University of Houston are security sensitive and will require a criminal background check.
The policy of the University of Houston-System and its universities is to ensure equal opportunity in all its educational programs and activities, and all terms and conditions of employment without regard to age, race, color, disability, religion, national origin, ethnicity, military status, genetic information, sex (including gender and pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or status, or gender expression, except where such a distinction is required by law.
