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Linnaeus University has been given a unique opportunity to create a modern and exciting legal science environment, where we take our starting point in and develop the legal discourse from other higher education institutions. We are now recruiting a Lecturer in Public Law who wants to help build something new, develop the established, and through collaboration build a complete academic environment that makes an impact both within and outside the university world. See further http://www.lnu.se/rv-miljo (http://www.lnu.se/rv-miljo)

The Department of Legal Science is organizationally part of the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Subject area for the position: Legal Science with a focus on Public Law

Location: Kalmar

Employment extent: 100 percent, permanent. In normal cases, a probationary period applies.

Start date: As agreed.

Job Description

The duties consist of research, educational planning, teaching, and examination in pure legal science education programs such as the upcoming Law Programme. Some teaching within other professional education programs with legal science components may occur.

For the first two years, 50 percent of the position involves research, in the third year 30 percent, and thereafter according to the then current working time agreement (currently 20 percent). This means actively conducting research and contributing to the construction and development of educational and research environments within legal science.

Travel between the university's two campuses occurs since teaching in both Kalmar and Växjö may be included in the position.

Qualifications

Eligible for appointment as a lecturer is someone who has demonstrated pedagogical skill and is a Doctor of Jurisprudence or has equivalent scientific competence within the relevant subject area.

The appointment requires that the applicant has documented good collaboration skills both in relation to student groups and colleagues within work teams and research environments.

Ability to teach in Swedish and English is required.

Assessment Criteria

As assessment criteria for the appointment of a lecturer, the degree of such skill that is a requirement for eligibility for appointment shall apply. The assessment of pedagogical skill shall be given equal care as the assessment of other eligibility-based conditions.

Guiding for the assessment of scientific skill is the independence, extent, and quality of one's own research. The pedagogical skill should have been demonstrated through teaching and refers to both the development, planning, implementation, and evaluation of teaching, as well as supervision and examination. The pedagogical skill should show a reflective approach to students' learning and to one's own role as a teacher.

When the university hires new teachers, the applicants should be chosen who, through a qualitative overall assessment, are judged to have the best prerequisites for carrying out and developing current job duties and contributing to a successful development of the operations.

Apply by September 30, 2026!

Contact Persons:

Dean Katarina Hyltén-Cavallius, [email protected], +46 702 21 87 63

HR Partner Karolina Österdahl, [email protected], +46 470-708674

Linnaeus University has the ambition to utilize the qualities that an even gender distribution and diversity bring to the organization.

Do you want to know more about the Department of Legal Science? Read more at https://lnu.se/mot-linneuniversitetet/Organisation/fakulteten-for-samhallsvetenskap/mot-fakulteten/rattsvetenskap/ (https://lnu.se/mot-linneuniversitetet/Organisation/fakulteten-for-samhallsvetenskap/mot-fakulteten/rattsvetenskap/)

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Linnaeus University is an employer that meets the requirements of the European Charter for Researchers and follows the guidelines for recruitment. Therefore, the university has received the HR Excellence in Research certification. Please note that valid identification must be presented at the interview.