Senior Visiting Faculty - McKinney Family Chair in Information Technology

Position Summary

INDIANA UNIVERSITY ROBERT H. MCKINNEY SCHOOL OF LAW seeks a senior visiting faculty member to fill the McKinney Family Chair in Information Technology Law for academic year 2024-25. Applicants must hold a J.D. degree or equivalent degree, possess at least 10 years of prior academic or practice experience (or a combination of those), and be passionate about teaching, scholarship, and student advising. The visiting chair will produce scholarship and teach courses in Information Technology Law or one of its sub-fields, such as cybersecurity, privacy, data protection, intellectual property, artificial intelligence, legal technology, blockchain, or other areas that inform the impact of technology on human life or the practice of law. The Visiting Chair will teach four courses, advise students, and serve as interim director of the joint MJ/BS in Informatics. IU-McKinney is committed to being a welcoming community that reflects and enacts the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion that inform academic excellence. We seek candidates who will not only enhance our representational diversity but whose research, teaching, and community-engagement efforts contribute to diverse, equitable, and inclusive learning and working environments for our students, staff, and faculty. For details on our commitment to inclusion, see: https://mckinneylaw.iu.edu/about/diversity-inclusion/committment.html. For more information about the school, please visit http://mckinneylaw.iu.edu/. We encourage applications from persons of color, women, persons with disabilities, the LGBTQ+ community, veterans, and members of other groups that are under-represented on university faculties.

Basic Qualifications

• Applicants must hold a J.D. degree or equivalent degree
• Possess at least 10 years of prior academic or practice experience (or a combination of those)
• Be passionate about teaching, scholarship, and student advising
• The visiting chair will produce scholarship and teach courses in Information Technology Law or one of its sub-fields, such as cybersecurity, privacy, data protection, intellectual property, artificial intelligence, legal technology, blockchain, or other areas that inform the impact of technology on human life or the practice of law

Department Contact for Questions

For more information, please contact Vice Dean Max Huffman at huffmmax@iu.edu or 317-274-8009.