University of Edinburgh
Lecturer in Corporate and Commercial Law
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Full-time: 35 hours per week
Open-ended (permanent)
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The University of Edinburgh is a world-class organisation. We look for the best in the field across all disciplines and provide a working environment where academics can develop their careers and passion for their chosen subject area. We offer the full range of academic roles and have a genuine focus on our students’ performance and wellbeing.
The opportunity:
We are looking for a committed and enthusiastic academic to join Edinburgh Law School as a Lecturer in Commercial Law.
This is an open-ended post available from the 1st January 2027.
The successful candidate will have advanced subject knowledge of Scots Commercial law. They will have either completed a PhD (or be very close to completion) in Commercial law or have equivalent professional experience. They will be expected to develop and execute a realistic and achievable research plan, and to play a full part in the collegiate life of the Commercial Law Subject Area and Edinburgh Law School.
The successful candidate will have a strong commitment to promoting the student experience and will contribute to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, assessment, and supervision in the Commercial Law Subject Area, especially in Scots Commercial law. They will join a dynamic team of academics working in the Commercial Law Subject Area.
The post will enable the successful candidate to establish a strong teaching and research profile and to develop professional contacts across the University of Edinburgh and beyond.
Your skills and attributes for success:
- Aptitude to deliver excellent research-led teaching and learning at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in Commercial law.
- Ability to design and deliver course materials and to assess student performance.
- Ability to supervise undergraduate and taught postgraduate students in dissertation work.
- Ability to develop a research plan in the area(s) of expertise, including through high quality publications.
- Excellent communication skills.
- A commitment to promoting a collegial, nurturing, and mutually supportive working environment.
- A commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion across all activities.
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People have always been at the heart of our work. Our people are at the centre of the University community and everything we do. We value colleagues with drive, determination and a passion for what they do. We are a place where everyone is welcome and offer a range of policies and benefits designed to support you in building the right meaningful flexibility that works for you.
A career with us has a range of other benefits that can be tailored to your lifestyle, including opportunities to develop new skills and broaden your experience, responsibility and autonomy, and excellent benefits and support.
How to apply
As well as a CV and cover letter, candidates are required to upload an outline of their research plans (maximum 2 pages) as part of the application process. Candidates should also complete and upload the Publications Form (link provided below) in which they should identify their two strongest research outputs and explain why, in their view, these are both original and significant. These might include published articles and book chapters, work that is accepted or under review but not yet published, or chapters of a thesis. Candidates who are shortlisted for interview will then be asked to submit what they consider to be their two strongest publications where available.
Download publications form https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2024-03/Research_document_for_applicants.docx (Word)
As a valued member of our team, you can expect:
- A competitive salary.
- An exciting, positive, creative, challenging, and rewarding place to work.
- To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community.
- Comprehensive Staff Benefits, including generous annual leave entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, a wide range of staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, and flexible work options. Check out the full list on our staff benefits page https://www.ed.ac.uk/human-resources/pay-reward/staff-benefits and use our reward calculator to discover the value of your pay and benefits.
Championing equality, diversity and inclusion
The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.
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Edinburgh Law School is an international, vibrant community dedicated to research and teaching with local and global reach and diverse impacts. It would not be the community it is without our staff and students, and we welcome applications from under-represented groups.
Prior to any employment commencing with the University, you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages https://www.ed.ac.uk/human-resources/demonstrating-rtw.
The University may be able to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. This will depend on a number of factors specific to the successful applicant.
For informal inquiries, please contact Prof Simone Lamont-Black, Head of the Commercial Law Subject Area, Simone.Lamont-Black@ed.ac.uk
Key dates to note
The closing date for applications is 1 October 2026.
Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm GMT. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browser's local time zone.
Interviews will be held during October 2026 (to be confirmed).
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