Cardiff Metropolitan University
Lecturer in Law

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Cardiff School of Management
Cardiff School of Management (CSM) is located in a state-of-the-art facility close to the heart of the capital city, the University offers a diverse portfolio of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. Law sits within the School and plays a central role in delivering the ambitions of the University’s Strategic Plan (Strategy 2030).
CSM is an ambitious, accredited provider of Business and Management education. State-of-the-art facilities on the Llandaff Campus provide an encouraging and creative learning environment, showcasing the School as a leading centre in the UK for Accounting, Economics and Finance; Business, Management and Law; Marketing and Strategy; and Tourism, Hospitality and Events Management. Staff are rightly proud of their significant contribution to regional regeneration and economic growth through teaching, enterprise work and applied research.
In 2024, the School became the first University in Wales and just the third in the UK to receive the Business School Impact System (BSIS) label from the European Foundation for Management Development for the positive economic impact the School has on the Cardiff Capital Region.
The School is proud of the role it plays in delivering programmes around the world. With around 10,000 students studying management programmes at our international TNE partners, the School makes a positive difference to the life chances of students and communities around the globe.
Cardiff School of Management’s Department of Business, Management and Law is seeking to appoint a Lecturer in Law to contribute to teaching across its law programmes.
The Department delivers a range of highly successful law programmes, including the LLB (Hons), BA (Hons) Law and Criminology, BA (Hons) Business Law and Management, and a Foundation in Legal Studies pathway. In 2024, the Department launched the CSM Entrepreneurial Law Clinic, providing students with supervised opportunities to deliver legal advice and assistance in a real-world setting. Teaching across the Department prioritises employability, professional skills and personal development, while situating law firmly within its broader context.
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The successful candidate will be expected to support curriculum development, contribute to research and scholarship, and enhance the Department’s applied and socially engaged teaching ethos.
Role
The role holder will contribute to teaching across a range of undergraduate modules, with teaching and research interests aligned to one or more of the following areas:
- Access to Justice
- Criminal Justice and Legal Responses to Crime
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Terrorism, Radicalisation and Violence
- International and Comparative Law and Systems
- Corporate Crime
- Legal and Professional Skills
- Employment Law
- Sports Law
Principal Duties And Responsibilities
You will be required to make a significant contribution to the delivery of our taught portfolio contributing to a range of undergraduate and postgraduate modules in our Law provision and other areas of our core curriculum depending on your areas of expertise and experience. Enthusiastic about student-centred pedagogy, you will contribute to education delivery, including programme management as required, across the range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. You will also make a significant contribution to employability, and professional engagement with relevant internal and external organisations, at a regional, national and international level.
You will be expected to contribute to the research profile of the department and to meet the qualitative and quantitative requirements for submission to the next Research Excellence Framework.
Applications are particularly welcome from outstanding candidates with teaching and research experience. There will be opportunities to contribute to PG research supervision.


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What We Are Looking For
- A good honours degree in a relevant subject.
- Masters in Law (LLM/MA/MRes)
- Evidenced experience of HE Law teaching/professional practice or equivalent and demonstratable competence to teach principles of legal professional conduct on related programmes.
- Proven knowledge and understanding of the legal systems and laws of England and Wales, with the ability to teach subjects within the jurisdiction.
- An in-depth understanding of pedagogy.
- An in-depth understanding of research/enterprise and scholarly activity.
- Ability to design, develop and deliver a range of programmes at various levels.
- Ability to review programme design on a regular basis to ensure compliance with quality standards and academic regulations and to make alterations where appropriate.
- Ability to identify opportunities for strategic development/improvement e.g. research projects, new courses, consultancy.
- Experience of engaging in pedagogic and practitioner research.
- Ability to achieve Fellow Status as part of the Higher Education Academy’s Professional Recognition scheme, within agreed timescales (as soon as is practicably possible and definitely within three years of commencement of employment).
Contact Us
If you would like to talk with us about this opportunity please contact Angela Joseph, Head of Department, at ajoseph@cardiffmet.ac.uk for further information about working with us at our University please visit our recruitment website.
All applications must be submitted online.
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