Professor, Legal Writing – Residential

Staff Openings•South Royalton, VT

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Vermont Law and Graduate School (VLGS), a national leader in legal writing, environmental law, and restorative justice, invites applications for one Assistant/Associate/Professor of Legal Writing. This is a residential position located at VLGS’s campus in South Royalton, VT. Successful candidates must hold an ABA-accredited J.D. degree. Applicants must also have legal work experience, demonstrated teaching experience, and proven research and writing ability. Junior and senior-level lateral candidates will be considered. The position starts July 2027. Students at VLGS take three required legal writing courses. Legal Research and Writing and Legal Writing II: Theory and Practice span the first year. The courses offer students an immersive, structured introduction to systems of American law, legal organization, objective and persuasive writing, and oral communication. VLGS has standardized the curriculum in Legal Research and Writing for all sections. Professors teaching Legal Writing II share common course outcomes but design curricula for their sections based on their own interests. The capstone course is Appellate Advocacy, in which students brief and argue a case currently pending before the United States Supreme Court. Professors in the program select a pending case based on their interest in the subject matter. The successful candidate will teach two sections of Legal Writing classes per semester in VLGS’s residential J.D. program. Sections typically have 20-25 students.