Location: Main CampusSession: 2024 Trimestre printemps/été | Spring/Summer TermFaculty: Section de Common Law / Common Law SectionUnit: Faculty of Law - Common Law Section_PTCourse Title: Selected Problems in Legal Practice: Legal Memos Made EasyCourse Code: CML4113Section: FGCourse Description: Designed to fit with the work demands of students undertaking summer jobs, this course enables students to work at their own pace to write and edit a legal memo, guided by online interim assignments that take approximately three to ten hours a week to complete. The course emphasizes applying feedback and reflection to continuously improve student work. The Professor leads students through an editing workshop and meets them individually to give feedback. A researcher assigned to the course to evaluate the effectiveness of asynchronous legal writing instructions is available to students to discuss any assignment. The course continues in the Fall term with 20 hours of in person Saturday afternoon workshops delivered by the Legal Writing Academy.Posting limited to: Professeur à temps-partiel régulier / Regular Part-Time ProfessorDate Posted: April 15, 2024Closing Date: May 15, 2024Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the Posting End Date aboveExpected Enrolment: 16Approval date: April 15, 2024Number of credits: 3Work Hours: 39Course type: BPosting type: Régulier / RegularLanguage of instruction: Anglais | EnglishCompetence in second language: PassiveCourse Schedule: - - - N/ARequirements:The Common Law Section is seeking candidates with extensive experience writing both predictive and persuasive legal documents and giving oral and written feedback on writing. Experience teaching legal writing and experience as a mentor is an asset. Candidates must be willing to use active learning strategies and provide extensive feedback on multiple assignments. Writing professors work as a team directed by the Legal Writing Academy. Candidates may be interviewed.The Common Law Section reserves the right to select a candidate who does not fully meet each of these requirements, where the candidate’s selection would be beneficial to the program, the course, the students or for a related reason.An acceptable level of education and/or experience could be viewed as being equivalent to the educational required and/or demonstrated experience. If you are invited to continue the selection process, please notify us of any adaptive measures you might require. Information you send us will be handled respectfully and in complete confidence. Employees are required under provincial law to successfully complete all mandatory legislated training. The list of training may be modified by provincial law.The hiring process will be governed by the current APTPUO collective agreements; you can click , , or to find out more.The University of Ottawa embraces diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We are passionate about our people and committed to employment equity. We foster a culture of respect, teamwork and inclusion, where collaboration, innovation, and creativity fuel our quest for research and teaching excellence. While all qualified persons are invited to apply, we welcome applications from qualified Indigenous persons, racialized persons, persons with disabilities, women and LGBTQIA2S+ persons. The University is committed to creating and maintaining an accessible, barrier-free work environment. The University is also committed to working with applicants with disabilities requesting accommodation during the recruitment, assessment and selection processes. Applicants with disabilities may contact to communicate the accommodation need. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.Prior to May 1, 2022, the University required all students, faculty, staff, and visitors (including contractors) to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 as defined in Policy 129 – Covid-19 Vaccination. This policy was suspended effective May 1, 2022 but may be reinstated at any point in the future depending on public health guidelines and the recommendations of experts.
