Most people can name one professor who entirely changed how they thought about a subject. We're hiring a
Remote Law Professor to be that person for the next group of legal students — teaching constitutional law, ethics, torts, and contracts through a fully online format. The role pays a base salary of $120,792 annually, plus performance bonuses and publication stipends, and it runs entirely remote.
What This Role Involves
Teaching here happens through live sessions, recorded lectures, and asynchronous discussion forums, so students who engage at different hours still have real access to instruction. You'll be building and refining curriculum alongside department leads, not working from a static syllabus year after year, and staying current with legal trends matters — course material gets updated as the field shifts, not once a decade.
Core Responsibilities
- Delivering virtual lectures and case-study discussions across core legal subjects
- Developing and revising curriculum in collaboration with department leadership
- Evaluating student work with feedback that pushes both understanding and practical skill
- Running weekly live sessions and interactive forums for students in synchronous and asynchronous formats
- Holding virtual office hours to support students' academic and career growth
- Contributing to research projects, faculty collaboration, and remote legal conferences
- Weaving current legal developments into course material to keep it relevant
Where and How You'll Work
Your setup is yours to design — a home office, a quiet space out of the city, wherever you actually focus best. What matters is a reliable connection and the discipline to show up consistently for students who are counting on live sessions and timely feedback. Scheduling bends around your working style rather than the other way around, whether you teach best early in the morning or well into the evening.
Faculty openings like this occasionally appear through
Naukri Mitra among other academic and remote professional listings, and this one tends to draw educators who want real independence over how they teach, not just where they teach from.
Tools and Support Provided
- A virtual learning environment built for real-time collaboration
- AI-assisted grading tools and analytics dashboards for tracking student progress
- Access to legal databases, remote libraries, and academic research resources
- Video conferencing tools set up for live discussions, workshops, and debate formats
- Instructional design and multimedia support when building out course content
You don't need to arrive as a technology expert. Willingness to try new formats and adjust your teaching approach matters more than existing technical fluency.
Qualifications
- Education: Master's degree — an LL.M. or equivalent advanced legal academic credential — required
- Experience: Minimum 3 years teaching at the undergraduate or postgraduate level, ideally including online or hybrid formats
- A solid academic record in legal research, authorship, or broader thought leadership
- Working familiarity with online teaching platforms and openness to new instructional methods
- Strong written and spoken communication, with the ability to make dense legal theory clear and genuinely engaging
Also Valued
Experience mentoring students preparing for the bar exam, involvement in interdisciplinary legal work or publications, and background in emerging areas such as cyberlaw, legal technology, or global jurisprudence all strengthen an application, though none is strictly required.
Compensation and Benefits
- $120,792 base salary annually, with performance bonuses and publication stipends
- Fully remote work with schedule flexibility built around your teaching rhythm
- Funded opportunities to attend and present at legal education conferences
- Access to professional development, certifications, and legal-tech training
- Digital classroom support so your time stays focused on teaching rather than logistics
What the Department Values
Legal education here isn't treated as a fixed script — it's built around asking sharper questions and preparing students to actually practice, not just recite case law. Faculty come from a range of backgrounds, from courtroom advocacy to nonprofit justice work, and that range is treated as a strength rather than something to standardize away. Collaboration across departments and disciplines is common, particularly as legal, technological, and ethical questions increasingly overlap.
Where This Can Lead
Faculty here often build reputations well beyond a single course — through research output, conference presentations, and mentorship relationships that follow students into their careers. There's a genuine faculty network supporting collaborative teaching, so you're not building a program in isolation.
Apply
Open to candidates in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, the European Union, Australia, India, and several other regions. If shaping how future legal professionals think is work you'd find meaningful, we'd like to hear from you.
