The University of Bristol has been a leading provider of legal education for over a century with a strong and sustained international reputation for outstanding teaching and research. Ranked 9th on raw GPA and 5th on research intensity in the recent REF2014, the law school is home to an inclusive research and teaching community which aspires to the highest standards in legal education. Housed in the iconic Wills Memorial Building, the Law School represents a unique blend of tradition and innovation, offering an educational experience which challenges and empowers students and a research environment in which academic originality and excellence flourish.

The School seeks to recruit one or more lecturers to engage in high quality legal research and to contribute to teaching in the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes primarily in the areas of trust and/or contract law The School welcome research excellence in all its forms but a demonstrable research interest in the fields of commercial law, contract or trusts (broadly conceived) is desirable.

The closing date for applications is midnight on Sunday 8 March 2015. It is expected that interviews will take place the week commencing 30 March 2015, but the exact date is currently to be confirmed.