American Bar Foundation

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The American Bar Foundation is accepting applications for the prestigious William H. Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and Law. The William H. Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and Law is a one-year visiting position for the 2018-2019 academic year. The ABF seeks an outstanding scholar with a distinguished record of scholarship in law and the social sciences who is conducting empirical research on diversity and law, broadly conceived. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, diversity in the legal profession and other institutions of justice; the impact of diversity on legal processes, legal institutions, and public policy; the roles of race, gender, disability, and sexuality in legal institutions and legal processes; and the interaction between legal processes and inequalities of race, gender, disability, and sexuality. Applicants from all social science fields, history, and law will be considered.

Review of applications will begin on December 15, 2017, the search will be ongoing until the position is filled. Please submit a letter of application, a curriculum vitae, a brief (no more than 2-page) description of current research and a list of three references.

For more information please visit: http://www.americanbarfoundation.org/faculty/ResearchCommunity/William_H__Neukom_Fellows_Research_Chair_in_Diversity_and_Law.htm