Part-Time Faculty: Law and Tech Competition Team Instructor
Responsibilities
- Design and teach the two-credit fall and spring courses, meeting two hours per week each semester, focused on substantive instruction and skills training in law, technology, and governance.
- Coach students through the spring semester as they prepare for the competition, including the written pre-competition assignment and the competition weekend itself
Qualifications
- Juris Doctor degree
- Prior teaching experience preferred
- Substantial professional or academic expertise in one or more areas relevant to the competition, such as AI governance, technology regulation, platform governance, cybersecurity, privacy, tech policy, product counseling, trust and safety, administrative enforcement, consumer protection, civil rights, competition, or related fields;
- The ability to teach both substantive material and practical lawyering skills in a sophisticated, applied manner.
Salary
$2,000-$6,000 per semester
Description
Fordham University School of Law seeks an adjunct professor to teach and help lead the Fordham teams competing in the Fordham Law ACtech Challenge, a first-of-its-kind, cross-disciplinary competition and curricular program focused on law, technology, and governance. The Challenge is designed to prepare students to confront the legal, policy, social, operational, and technical problems posed by emerging technologies, especially AI, through realistic, high-stakes simulation. The competition emphasizes applied learning, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and client counseling under conditions of uncertainty and rapid change. At Fordham, participation in the Challenge is paired with a mandatory year-long course, two-credits each semester. The course is intended to provide students with both substantive grounding in the legal and policy frameworks governing emerging technologies and a deeper understanding of the technologies themselves, while cultivating the practical skills needed to advise clients in fast-moving institutional settings. Students in the program are expected to learn how to integrate legal analysis with technical, policy, communications, and strategic considerations, and to develop practical recommendations for decision-makers in government, industry, and civil society. The Fordham Law ACtech Challenge is intended to become a permanent part of Fordham Law School’s competition-team curricular offerings and an annual competition that Fordham will continue to co-host in future years.