Tenured​/Tenure-Track Professor in Law and Emerging Technologies

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Tenured/Tenure-Track Professor in Law and Emerging Technologies

Tenure

IU Bloomington Vice Provost For Faculty Affairs

Bloomington

Indiana University Maurer School of Law in Bloomington isseeking outstanding lateral tenured or tenure-trackapplicants in the regulation of artificial intelligence, robotics,and other emerging technologies. The position is part of Indiana University’s Faculty 100 (F100) initiative. The initiative is acampus-wide investment to recruit 100 new tenured/tenure-track faculty whose work strengthens IU’s research capacity in strategically important and rapidly growing areas. IU Bloomingtonhas significant cross-campus strength in technology, informatics,business, labor, public affairs, ethics, and social science.

The strongest candidate would be a scholar with a record oremerging agenda in one or more of the following areas: law and artificial intelligence, responsible AI, robotics, workforcetransformation, human-centered technology, public-sectorinnovation, and technology’s social impacts. A law scholar in thisarea could contribute regulatory analysis, institutional design,and policy-relevant research pertaining to labor-market governance,tax and public-finance analysis, law and political economy, and/ornormative frameworks for evaluating the distributional effects of technological change.

We encourage applications from scholars who apply interdisciplinaryperspectives and share important research overlap with current IUBscholars, while also offering new dimensions that will expand and strengthen the IU’s broader AI and emerging technologies research program.

• A highly collegial and productive faculty that is committed toretaining and expanding its community of scholars.
• Integration with a major research university, including cross-disciplinary collaborations with the Kelley School of Business;
  Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies;
  Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering;
  
  Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis; and thePaul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, among others.
• Excellent and ambitious JD, LLM, and SJD students with strong entering credentials.
• A three-course teaching load, small average class sizes,generous support for research conference travel, and an excellentstudent-faculty ratio.
• Located on one of the nation’s most beautiful campuses in avibrant Big Ten college town, and home to the world-renowned IUJacobs School of Music, which presents between 1,100 and 1,400performances and musical events per year.

Minimum Qualifications include a distinguished academic background and a record of excellence in both scholarship and teaching, as well as a J.D., Ph.D., or comparable degree.

Questions regarding the position or application process can be directed to Professor Asaf Lubin, Chair, F100 Initiative Hiring Committee, at lawappts or Dr. Cindy Broderick, search coordinator, at faculty1
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The candidate will have an expected start date of August 1, 2027
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Before a conditional offer of employment with tenure is finalized, candidates will be asked to disclose any pending investigations or previous findings of sexual or professional misconduct. They will also be required to authorize an inquiry by Indiana University Bloomington with all current and former employers along those lines. The relevance of information disclosed or ascertained in the context of this process to a candidate’s eligibility for hire will be evaluated by Indiana University Bloomington on a case-by-case basis.

Applicants should be aware, however, that Indiana…