Faculty Employment
Opportunities
UC Law SF (Associate) Professor of Practice & Director of Moot Court
University of California College of the Law, San Francisco (“UC Law SF,” formerly, “UC Hastings”), located in downtown San Francisco, seeks applicants for a contract (non-tenure-track) faculty position as Director of the UC Law SF Moot Court Department, a role that includes managing one the country’s top moot court programs. The Director of Moot Court teaches and oversees the Moot Court department. The start date for the position is January 1, 2026 or as soon thereafter as the position is filled.
(Associate) Professor of Practice & Director of Moot Court Hiring Notice
UC Law SF (Associate) Professor of Practice & Director of Startup Legal Garage
UC Law San Francisco seeks candidates for a full-time contract faculty position within the law school’s Center for Innovation. The role includes managing and teaching courses associated with the award-winning program, Startup Legal Garage. Startup Legal Garage students serve as the legal solution for 50 early-stage tech and life-science companies each year, with the work supervised for free by outside lawyers. The start date for the position is June 1, 2026.
(Associate) Professor of Practice & Director of Startup Legal Garage Hiring Notice
UC Law SF Visiting Assistant Professor of Law (VAP)
UC Law San Francisco seeks applicants for appointment as the C. Keith Wingate Visiting Assistant Professor of Law (VAP) for the 2026-2027 and 2027-2028 academic years in the Center for Racial and Economic Justice (CREJ). The VAP position is a full-time, non-tenure track faculty position designed to support junior scholars, attorneys, or others interested in preparing for a career in legal teaching who intend to engage their research and teaching in the fields of racial and/or economic justice. The start date is July 1, 2026.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law (VAP) Hiring Notice
UC Law SF Tenured Or Tenure-Track Professor Of Law
The University of California College of the Law, San Francisco (“UC Law San Francisco,” formerly “UC Hastings”) seeks to hire an innovative and productive scholar and talented teacher who will be a role model for our students. Our search is without subject matter limitation as to scholarly focus or interest. The one teaching limitation is that the candidate must be willing to teach 1L Civil Procedure; however, the candidate need not be a civil procedure scholar. The position would be either tenure-track or tenured and would begin on July 1, 2026.
Tenured or Tenure-Track Professor of Law Hiring Notice
UC Law SF In-House Transactional Clinic: Tenured Or Tenure-Track Professor of Law
The University of California College of the Law, San Francisco (“UC Law San Francisco,” formerly “UC Hastings”) seeks to hire an entry-level or lateral tenure-track or tenured faculty member to be a productive and impactful scholar and to establish and teach an in-house transactional clinic. As part of UC Law’s Community Justice Clinics, the clinic should serve disenfranchised and disempowered clients or communities while teaching students about the law, legal practice and the role of the law in the quest for social justice. The start date for the position is July 1, 2026. We are interested in applications from entry-level candidates and from professors with clinical teaching experience in the academy.
In-House Transactional Clinic: Tenured or Tenure-Track Professor of Law Hiring Notice
Bar Exam Supplemental Tutor Program (B.E.S.T) Essay Graders
The Bar Exam Supplemental Training (B.E.S.T.) Essay Tutor program is designed to provide graduates with an opportunity to receive substantive and structural feedback on multiple practice bar review essay and Performance Test answers. Between mid-May and the end of July, graduates may submit up to 10 bar exam essay or Performance Test answers for feedback and an approximate grade. To assist with the review process, the graders are provided with sample answers and/or rubrics.
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BEST Essay Graders Recruitment Information
Adjunct Faculty Positions
The University of California College of the Law, San Francisco (“UC Law SF”) is seeking candidates for appointment as Adjunct Professors of Law. We are particularly interested in receiving applications from adjunct faculty candidates who reflect the breadth and diversity of the legal profession in the San Francisco Bay Area. Applicants must have a JD and have passed a bar exam; at least five years of practice experience; a strong academic background; and a commitment to modeling the highest of professional standards as well as to teaching law.