Casual Staff - Distinguished Research Fellow

About the Role

The Kukin Program for Conflict Resolution is seeking a part-time Distinguished Research Fellow to start on July 15th. The Fellow will work 15 hours per week to develop a teaching module on communication behaviors (Rackham-based) for integration across multiple law school courses, clinics, and professional training platforms. The role also involves promoting the module within the dispute resolution, negotiation, and law school clinical education communities to encourage adoption and collaboration, and laying the foundation for future interdisciplinary social science research on communication behaviors, including AI-assisted coding and analysis.

Responsibilities

• Teaching Module on Communication Behaviors at Cardozo
  • Develop a suite of teaching materials focused on communication behaviors, including experiential exercises, teaching notes, and assessment tools.
  • Integrate a negotiation and communication behaviors module into the standard Negotiation syllabus template at Cardozo.
  • Incorporate the communication module into Cardozo’s first-year professionalism curriculum.
  • Adapt the communication and negotiation module for implementation within Cardozo clinics and experiential programs (beyond negotiation and dispute resolution).
• National Dissemination of the Teaching Module
  • Publish a teaching note in the Negotiation Journal and/or a law review essay introducing the new communication behaviors module and its pedagogical framework.
  • Present the project and its findings at national and interdisciplinary conferences, including venues such as the ABA, IACM, and SEALS.
  • Expand visibility and engagement through podcasts, blogs, webinars, and other media platforms serving the dispute resolution and clinical legal education communities.
• Design of a Future Social Science Research Agenda
  • Build interdisciplinary partnerships with scholars in social science, dispute resolution, and artificial intelligence to better understand emerging approaches to communication coding and behavioral analysis.
  • Draw upon and extend prior empirical research by scholars such as Schneider, Ebner, Rackham, and others to create a scalable research design prepared for future AI integration.
  • Develop and pilot an initial experimental framework to collect communication data and test methodologies in anticipation of more advanced AI-assisted coding systems.

Requirements

• J.D. required.

Pay

$74,000 per year.

About Us

The Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law is a leader in legal education, located in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. The law school is renowned for its program in intellectual property, including the FAME Center for Fashion, Arts, Media, and Entertainment Law. Cardozo Law has a long tradition of public advocacy and is the birthplace of the Innocence Project and the home of the Center for Rights and Justice. The school offers a world-class faculty and encourages creative thinking and innovation in the legal profession, providing students with a strong foundation in legal theory combined with practical hands-on experience in areas such as criminal law, civil rights law, and business law. Cardozo prides itself on creating a vibrant and warm community for faculty, staff, and students.

A division of Yeshiva University, Cardozo Law School offers an excellent compensation package and a broad range of employee benefit plans. The law school is a secular institution within a religious university and welcomes people of all religions, ethnic backgrounds, races, and sexual identities.