Consumer Law

Australian Law School Seeks Consumer Law Professor

By Jeff Sovern

Here's the announcement:

The Griffith Law School is seeking to appoint a leading scholar for a joint position of Professor in the Law School and Director of the Centre for Credit and Consumer Law (CCCL).

The Griffith Law School (GLS) is one of the leading law schools in Australia. It has a strong commitment to critical legal education and socio-legal research. It houses the Socio-Legal Research Centre (SLRC), Australia?s leading cluster of critical, theoretical and socio-legal scholars. The GLS has undergraduate campuses at Nathan and the Gold Coast and a postgraduate campus at South Bank in Brisbane. The successful candidate will be expected to play a leadership role in the Law School and the SLRC.

The CCCL is an independent, not for profit academic centre positioned within the GLS. Its purpose is to undertake research into credit and consumer related issues and to disseminate knowledge from that research to promote legislative and policy reforms and increase community, government and business awareness of credit and consumer issues. Applicants must have the leadership skills necessary to expand the CCCL?s activities and ensure a solid funding base; an international research reputation in the area of credit and consumer law or policy; and the ability to develop and teach undergraduate and/or postgraduate courses in credit and consumer law and allied areas of commercial law. The successful candidate will be ideally positioned to make a significant impact on credit and consumer law and policy in Australia. The position is continuing.

Further details are available on the Griffith website: http://www.griffith.edu.au/hrm/employment/.

Applications close on 14 May 2008.

Full post as published by CL&P Blog on April 21, 2008 (boomark / email).