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Job Description and Selection Criteria Post Professorship of Corporate Law Department/Faculty Faculty of Law Division Social Sciences College Jesus College Overview of the post The Faculty of Law and Jesus College intend to appoint to the Professorship of Corporate Law with effect from 1 October 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter. The Professor of Corporate Law will provide leadership in teaching and research at the highest level in the law governing business associations. The University welcomes applications from candidates who specialise in particular areas, such as corporate governance, corporate finance law, corporate insolvency law, the regulation of financial markets, corporate law and business purpose, and the regulation of business associations. Comparative and interdisciplinary interests will be an advantage, as will expertise in allied areas of English law. On behalf of the University of Oxford, the Professor will play an important role in nurturing and developing the intellectual climate of legal studies, by publication and teaching, and by participation in the wider scholarly life of the subject. The Professor will be well placed to provide encouragement, support and mentorship to more junior colleagues and academic visitors, and more generally to sustain a lively scholarly climate in Oxford. This post is a statutory professorship. Statutory professors have a world-leading research reputation and exercise broad academic leadership across their department or faculty and college, and more widely in their subject at national and international level. Please see https://hr.admin.ox.ac.uk/academic-posts-at-oxford for a description of the different types of academic posts at Oxford. A Professorial Fellowship at Jesus College is attached to the Professorship. The Faculty of Law is an Athena Swan Bronze Award holder. Applications are particularly welcome from women and Black and ethnic minority candidates, who are under-represented in senior academic positions in Oxford. The salary for statutory posts consists of two elements, the basic professorial salary of £79,245 and a professorial merit award at an appropriate point on the Professorial Merit Pay scale for non-clinical professors (currently starting at £ 33,971 p.a., see https://finance.admin.ox.ac.uk/salary-scales#collapse1098711). The appropriate PMP level will be determined after consultation and depends on the successful appointee’s experience and standing in the field. Both of these elements are pensionable and will rise in line with any nationally agreed pay awards. Reviews of professorial merit pay are held from time to time, and it will be open to the successful candidate to apply for enhanced awards in these reviews. Additional remuneration is also paid to those serving as Faculty officers. Informal queries about the post are welcome, and should be addressed in the first instance to Professor John Armour, the Dean of the Faculty of Law (john.armour@law.ox.ac.uk). Enquiries about the application process may be addressed to Sue Morris in the Senior Appointments Team (professorships@admin.ox.ac.uk). All enquiries will be treated in strict confidence and will not form part of the selection decision. Duties of the post You will be a member of both the University and the Jesus College communities. You will be part of a lively and intellectually stimulating research community which performs to the highest international levels in research and publications and will have access to the excellent research facilities which Oxford offers. You will have a role to play in the running of Jesus College as a member of the Governing Body and a trustee of the College. The main duties of the post are as follows: Leadership  Provide high-level academic leadership in Corporate Law at Oxford;  Contribute to the intellectual leadership of the Faculty’s academic community as a whole, and in particular, to the Business Law Research Group, providing direction and mentoring for research colleagues and managing staff as required, including serving – in rotation with colleagues – as Chair of the Business Law Research Group and Academic Director of the MSc in Law and Finance.  Present work and conduct discussions to influence and engage scholars, sponsors, stakeholders (including international and national agencies), business and industry leaders, government policymakers and the public at large;  Lead the development of pioneering concepts and/or methodologies in response to research challenges and open up new avenues of research to extend intellectual understanding; and  Liaise with other departments and neighbouring institutes across the University to develop and enhance interdisciplinary research and teaching collaborations. Research  Undertake original research leading to publications likely to have a formative impact on the intellectual agenda;  Contribute to the development of the Faculty’s research strategy and establish university-wide and external collaborations to promote multi-disciplinary research, developing and broadening the Faculty’s position as a research leader in corporate law;  Lead a programme of research at an international level;  Prepare funding applications and generate significant research income; and  Initiate, manage and lead advanced collaborative research projects. Teaching  Design and teach innovative curricula at the post-graduate level that complement existing degree programmes;  Contribute to the teaching, development and expansion of the Faculty’s teaching provision, including new postgraduate degrees and possible contribution to the University’s undergraduate provision;  Provide academic supervision of postgraduate research students;  Teach students at all levels through a minimum of thirty-six hours of lectures, seminars or classes each academic year; and  Contribute to University examining when requested to do so. December 2024 2 Administration  Play a role in the administration of the Faculty, including where appropriate serving as a Faculty Officer;  Chair committees and/or working groups and contribute to Faculty and divisional planning and strategic development; and  Participate in and contribute to Faculty, divisional and University committees and administration as required. In carrying out these duties the postholder will be responsible to the Board of the Faculty of Law for the efficient use and management of their research time and support, including staff and budgets. College Duties  To serve as a Trustee of Jesus College, an educational charity, and to participate fully in the administrative work of the College, including attendance at Governing Body, service on College committees, and potentially taking on College offices.  To act as College Advisor for graduates in the College reading for degrees in Law.  To participate in the activities of the College as an academic and research community. Headship of Department/Faculty Board Chair Every professor who is employed by the University, unless individually exempted, has an obligation to accept headship of the department or faculty in which their post is held, if invited to do so by the Divisional Board. Selection criteria Applications will be judged only against the criteria which are set out below. Applicants should ensure that their application shows clearly how their skills and experience meet these criteria. The University is committed to fairness, consistency and transparency in selection decisions. Members of Electoral Boards (selection committees) will be aware of the principles of equality of opportunity, fair selection and the risks of bias. There will be both female and male board members. Applicants who, for any reason, have taken a career break or have had an atypical career and wish to disclose this in their application, will have this taken into account by the electoral board, recognising that the quantity of research may be reduced as a result. The successful candidate will demonstrate the following: Essential 1. an outstanding record of internationally recognised scholarship and research in the field of the post; 2. an excellent publication record indicating potential to produce further significant work of a recognised international quality during the tenure of the chair; 3. the ability to provide inspirational teaching to high-achieving students and to supervise doctoral students, including experience of giving lectures, leading seminars and classes, and supervising research; December 2024 3 4. proven or potential intellectual leadership skills enabling the post-holder to provide mentoring to colleagues, to foster outstanding research and teaching in Corporate Law at all levels; and to provide leadership in the development and delivery of our courses; 5. the ability to contribute effectively to the long-term development of the study of Law in the Faculty and in the wider academic community; and 6. evidence of a commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion. Desirable 1. administrative skills, including the ability to work efficiently with the College, Faculty and University administration, and willingness to collaborate with other Faculty members in research-related activities (such as hosting conferences, applications for funding etc.); and 2. pastoral skills, including the ability to attend effectively to the pastoral needs of graduate students. How to apply To apply, visit https://my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit/erq_jobspec_details_form.jobspec?p_id=176956, then click on the Apply Now button on the ‘Job Details’ page and follow the on-screen instructions to register as a new user or log-in if you have applied previously. Please refer to the ‘Terms of Use’ in the left hand menu bar for information about privacy and data protection. Please provide details of three referees and indicate whether the University may contact them without seeking your permission. Referees should not write directly to the University, but may be contacted at any stage in the recruitment process if the electoral board requests your references. You will also be asked to upload:    a curriculum vitae including a list of publications; a supporting statement - maximum 2 pages - this should explain how you meet the selection criteria for the post, using examples of your skills and experience (it may include experience gained in education or employment, or during career breaks, such as time out to care for dependents), and; a one- to two-page teaching statement that illustrates how you would meet the requirement to give at least thirty-six hours of lectures, seminars or classes each academic year. The University and Jesus College welcome applications from candidates who have a disability or long-term health condition and are committed to providing long term support. The University’s Staff Disability Advisor can provide support to applicants with a disability, please see https://edu.admin.ox.ac.uk/disability-support for details. Jesus also has a dedicated human resources team who are experienced in supporting disability related needs. Please let us know if you need any adjustments to the recruitment process, including the provision of these documents in large print, audio or other formats. If we invite you for interview, we will ask whether you require any particular arrangements at the interview. The University Access Guide (https://www.accessguide.ox.ac.uk/) gives details of physical access to University buildings. Please upload all documents as PDF files with your name and the document type in the filename. All applications must be received by 12 noon UK time on Monday 27 January 2025. Please email recruitment.support@admin.ox.ac.uk should you experience difficulties using the online application system. Further help and support is available from https://hrsystems.admin.ox.ac.uk/recruitmentsupport. To return to the online application at any stage, please log back in and click the ‘My applications’ button on the left-hand side of the page. December 2024 4 You will be notified of the progress of your application by automatic emails from our e-recruitment system. Please check your spam/junk mail regularly to ensure that you receive all emails. All applications will be considered by the electoral board as soon as possible after the closing date. The electoral board is free to search for other candidates at this or any subsequent stage in its proceedings. You will be kept informed of the progress of your application at each stage, but in some cases there may be a delay while deliberations are ongoing. All shortlisted candidates will be interviewed and will be asked to give a research presentation to the Electoral Board and members of the Faculty of Law as part of the interview. The composition of the Electoral Board will be published in the University Gazette when it is finalised. The Faculty of Law The Faculty of Law is one of fifteen units located in the Social Sciences Division (see below). There are some 185 members of the Law Faculty, of whom around 100 are employed by the Faculty in permanent posts as Professors or Associate Professors. The Law Faculty has a distinguished reputation in research and publications in Law. In the Research Excellence Framework 2021, we were again ranked first in the research power index, with 55% of our submissions being judged to be world-leading (4*, the highest score available). More than four-fifths (83%) of the research’s impact was also recognised as world-leading (4*). Oxford Law has been ranked second in the world in the QS World University rankings and first in Europe for the last four years. The Law Faculty has recently adopted a strategy to guide its work for the next five years, which provides useful context about current projects and priorities. https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/202403/Shared%20Ambitions%20A%20Strategy%20for%20the%20Faculty%20of%20Law%202024_0.pdf. The executive body of the Faculty of Law is the Board of the Faculty, an elected body of 26 members of the Faculty. The Professor will be eligible for election to the Board. In common with other non-departmentally organised subjects in Oxford, most members of staff are based in their colleges. Promoting Faculty cohesiveness, whether in terms of supporting junior colleagues or maximising the opportunities for research collaboration, is thus important, and members of the professoriate are expected to contribute substantially to this process. Statutory Professors in the Faculty are expected to play a leading role in the running of the Faculty including, from time to time, holding the Faculty Board’s administrative offices when asked to do so. The Faculty itself is based in the St Cross Building, a listed modernist building designed by Leslie Martin and opened in 1964. Recently partially refurbished, the St Cross Building houses the Bodleian Law Library and also provides facilities for administration, teaching, conferences and teleconferences, and social events. The St Cross Building serves as a hub for Law in Oxford, but Faculty events are also held in the thirty or so Oxford Colleges that have Fellows in Law. There are five specialised centres associated with the Law Faculty: the Centre for Criminology, the Institute of European and Comparative Law, the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre, and the Bonavero Institute for Human Rights. Oxford’s Faculty of Law was one of the first in the UK to be awarded an Athena Swan Bronze Certificate (now Charter) to recognise its work on advancement of gender equality and the building of inclusive cultures. The Faculty’s commitment to equality and inclusion is led by its Associate Dean for Equality and Diversity. For more information please visit https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/equality-and-diversity/athena-swan-0. Further information about faculty members is at https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/listing-page/people. December 2024 5 Corporate Law at Oxford The University of Oxford is an established and vibrant centre of excellence for the study of corporate law. , Our Business Law Research Group provides a forum for research engagement across a wide range of related research agendas. Membership is drawn from the Law Faculty, but also engages colleagues from other departments within the University in interdisciplinary activities, most notably our partnership with the Saïd Business School in the delivery of the MSc in Law and Finance. Collective activities include the well-attended weekly Business Law Research Workshops and the widely-read Oxford Business Law Blog, both of which draw contributions from a wide range of internal and external participants. The Professor will be expected to contribute to the leadership of Oxford in the field of corporate law. Recent and current research projects led by members of the Faculty include works on corporate law and sustainability, AI in corporate governance, principles of financial regulation, relationships between boards and shareholders, regulatory competition in corporate law, digital assets, and debt restructuring. The Law Faculty greatly values the connection between research and teaching. We currently offer a wide range of PGT courses that draw on elements of corporate law, broadly conceived. These include research-led elective courses offered to BCL/MJur and MLF students such as Corporate Finance Law, Comparative Corporate Law, Corporate Insolvency Law, and Principles of Financial Regulation, as well as the core MLF course Law & Economics of Corporate Transactions. We also offer an undergraduate course on Company Law. The professor will be expected to contribute to some of these courses, and to work with colleagues and with the Faculty further to develop the teaching of corporate law. There is scope for the development of new research-led course offerings. The Professor will be expected to supervise research students working on projects related to corporate law. Oxford has a large and strong community of research students in Law, including the largest doctoral programme in Law in the English-speaking world. Leadership in the graduate research student community will be an important focus of the Professor’s work. You can read about the research activities of the Business Law Research Group at https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/business-law-research-group/business-law-research-group. The Faculty has always encouraged excellence in diversity as its research strategy, seeking to achieve high quality in the broad range of subjects in which Faculty members pursue their interests. The Faculty’s Research Support Fund provides resources for research assistance, conference attendance and other research-related activities. The Faculty employs a Research Facilitation team to support internal and external grant applications and is in the process of expanding its research support further. The Professor will receive a start-up grant of £7,500 from the Law Faculty to use during the first two years of appointment, and will be eligible to apply for funding from the Faculty’s grant schemes, which currently include those for IT equipment and Research Support. The Professor will also have access to up to £30,000 from the University Higher Studies Fund for research costs during the first three years in post. It should be noted that administrative support in the Law Faculty is centralised, and the Faculty does not provide dedicated secretarial/PA support to its academic postholders. Undergraduate teaching within the Faculty There are approximately 240 undergraduates in each year. Most read for the three-year BA in Jurisprudence, while a small number (35 or so per year) follow the Law with Law Studies in Europe course over four years, with one year being devoted to study in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain or Italy. The undergraduate programme is distinctive in that, as well as covering the typical core subjects that all British law schools offer (such as Contract, Tort, Criminal, and Constitutional Law) it also requires students to study Roman Law and Jurisprudence. Its other distinctive feature is its reliance on tutorials, featuring teaching December 2024 6 groups of only two to four students as its principal means of course delivery. Students study compulsory subjects in the first two years of the programme, and undertake a preliminary examination at the end of the second term, but in their final year may choose two options from 20 or so which include Company Law (see the full undergraduate options list at www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/options-page/ba-jurisprudence-options).The Law Faculty has recently launched a Review of its undergraduate programmes. The undergraduate programmes, including admissions, are the immediate responsibility of the Faculty’s Undergraduate Studies Committee, its Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies, and its Admissions and Access and Outreach Coordinators. The Professor may be asked to lecture to undergraduate students in subjects related to corporate law, but will not be required to give undergraduate tutorials (individual or very small group tuition). Graduate teaching within the Faculty The Faculty sustains a major graduate programme, and its graduate research school is the largest of any law school in the English-speaking world. There are currently about 640 graduate students, of whom approximately half are enrolled in taught programmes, the largest being the Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) and Magister Juris (MJur) which account for approximately 150 students combined. Both are full-time courses, as is the Master of Science (MSc) in Law and Finance and Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in Criminology and Criminal Justice, while the MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice is offered both as a full-time and part-time course. There are then a number of courses which are exclusively part-time – the MSc degrees in Intellectual Property, in International Human Rights Law, and in Taxation; and the Postgraduate Diploma in Intellectual Property and Practice. Research degrees account for the remainder of the students and comprise the Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degrees in Law, in Socio-Legal Studies, and in Criminology (all offered as both full-time and part-time courses), and the one-year Master of Philosophy (MPhil) degrees in Law and in Socio-Legal Research (both full-time courses). All part-time courses are non-residential. The graduate programmes, including graduate admissions, are the immediate responsibility of the Faculty’s Graduate Studies Committee and its two Associate Deans (one for research degrees, the other for taught programmes). The graduate cohort provides a base for a productive interaction between advanced study and research - this is something to which the Faculty attaches great importance. The Professor will be expected to supervise research students and contribute to the teaching of graduate students in corporate law as outlined above. The Bodleian Law Library The Bodleian Law Library, accommodated alongside the Faculty Centre in the St Cross Building, houses over 600,000 volumes. It receives copies of all law books published in the United Kingdom, and has extensive holdings of overseas legal publications, notably of the Commonwealth, the US, and European countries. Oxford is designated as an EU documentation centre, and materials relevant to European law are also housed in the Bodleian Law Library. The library has one of the most extensive collections of domestic and foreign law databases and e-resources in the UK. See https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/libraries/law for further details. Further information about the Faculty of Law can be found at https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/. December 2024 7 The Social Sciences Division The University’s academic departments and faculties are organised into four large groups known as Academic Divisions (Social Sciences, Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences (MPLS), Medical Sciences, and Humanities). The divisions are responsible for academic strategy and operational planning, oversight of the teaching and research of their constituent departments and faculties, and for personnel and resource management. The social sciences at Oxford are distinctive for both their depth and breadth, with over 1,100 academic and research staff working across fifteen departments, faculties and schools. The Head of the Social Sciences Division is Professor Timothy Power. The Division is a world-leading centre of research and education in the social sciences. The Times Higher Education (THE) University Rankings returned the University of Oxford to the number one spot in the world for Social Sciences in 2024. We have placed first in four of the last five years (2019, 2021, 2022 & 2023). More than 800 researchers were returned to Main Panel C (Social Sciences) for REF 2021 across a diverse range of subject area ‘units of assessment’ – from geography and business to archaeology and law. Over 55% of the research submitted from the Division was judged to be world-leading (4*, the highest score available). More than two-thirds (69%) of the research’s impact was also recognised as world-leading (4*). Research from across the Division was also submitted to subject areas across Panels A (Medicine, health and life sciences), B (Physical sciences, engineering and mathematics), and D (Arts and Humanities), highlighting the enormous breadth and diversity of research expertise across the Division. Our academic and research staff and students are international thought leaders, generating new evidence, insights and policy tools with which to address some of the major global challenges facing humanity, such as sustainable resource management, poverty and forced migration, effective governance and justice. Particular research highlights in recent years have included COVID-19 and Climate Change. As well as active interdisciplinary links with researchers in other divisions at Oxford, we engage and collaborate extensively with other universities and a wide range of governmental and non-governmental practitioner communities such as law, business, public health and welfare, international development and education around the world. The Division has an extensive portfolio of external funders, partners and supporters, with competitivelyawarded external research income exceeding £50 million per year and philanthropic income over £25 million a year. As part of our commitment to equality of opportunity, thirteen of our departments have achieved Bronze awards under the Athena Swan Charter (a UK accreditation scheme recognising organisations’ commitment to equality and diversity, particularly in gender). Our School of Geography and the Environment and our Department of Economics hold Athena Swan Silver awards. In February 2023, for the first time, the University as a whole was awarded an institutional Athena Swan Silver award, acknowledging the progress that has been made in addressing a number of gender gaps across the University over the last five years. The Division delivers an exceptional range of high-quality educational programmes all underpinned by the innovative research being undertaken by our academics. The student body is made up of over 2,000 undergraduate students, nearly 3,000 students studying postgraduate taught programmes and 1,200 postgraduate research students. The programmes we offer are wide-ranging, often interdisciplinary and include professionally-oriented provision in areas such as business, law and education. The Division is home to several of Oxford’s most widely recognised teaching programmes, such as Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at undergraduate level; and at the Masters level programmes such as the Bachelor in Civil Law (BCL), Environmental Change and Management, International Relations, and Social Data Science. For more information, please visit: www.socsci.ox.ac.uk. December 2024 8 Jesus College Oxford has 39 self-governing and independent Colleges, enabling academic staff and students to enjoy the benefits of belonging to a small, interdisciplinary community as well as a large, internationally renowned University. The collegiate system encourages a strong sense of community, bringing together leading academics and students across subjects, and from different cultures and countries. Jesus College has a strong commitment to promoting and enabling education, learning, scholarship and research at the highest levels amongst its students and academic staff, whilst preserving an informal and friendly atmosphere. Founded in 1571 by Elizabeth I, the College is a self-governing educational charity and is one of the 39 constituent colleges of Oxford University. With Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt FRS FREng, as its Principal, the College comprises over 100 Fellows, 50 lecturers, just over 330 graduates and just under 400 undergraduates, and 90 support staff. The College is located on an attractive historic site in the centre of Oxford, with excellent access to the Bodleian Library and other University libraries, the Science Area, and the University’s department and faculty buildings. Two annexe sites, in north and east Oxford, allow the College to provide accommodation for almost all its students. In 2022 the College opened the Cheng Yu Tung Building on its main Oxford site (https://www.jesus.ox.ac.uk/cheng-building/). In addition to postgraduate accommodation, teaching and learning spaces and other student facilities, this transformational space includes the Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub (https://www.jesus.ox.ac.uk/about-jesus-college/the-cheng-kar-shun-digital-hub/) , fostering innovation with digital technology, within and across disciplines, and enabling researchers to explore new methodologies and share research results in innovative ways. The Digital Hub engages academics, students, staff, schools, and the public with digital research and teaching, events and activities, thus building on the University of Oxford’s world-leading research, teaching, collections, and technologies. The College encourages the academic achievements of its students (being regularly towards the top of the table for the best performance in final examinations) with excellent teaching, and generous and varied financial support. Similarly, it celebrates and supports the academic endeavours of its Fellows, both in research and teaching. The College held a Strategic Review of its activity for 2023-2027, setting out a number of important academic themes. The document can be viewed at https://www.jesus.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/JesusCollege_Strategic-Plan_60pp_webversion-accessible.pdf. Each term there are a number of events for members of the Senior and Middle Common Rooms to meet to present and discuss their research, as well as many varied and interesting online events open to Fellows, staff and alumni. Additional events throughout the year include student musical, dramatic and choral productions. The Fellows of the College form a lively multi-disciplinary and international community. Weekday lunches in particular are a popular time, and there would be excellent opportunities for the Professor of Corporate Law to speak to a broad range of other Fellows and lecturers in many different disciplines. Guest Nights on Wednesdays and Fridays during term offer very pleasant occasions for Fellows to entertain professional and personal guests, and a chance to meet a wide range of interesting people. The College hosts a number of wellattended formal dinners throughout the year, at which the Professor of Corporate Law and their guest would be most welcome. The Professor of Corporate Law may make use of the College’s well-equipped seminar and other rooms for meetings, entertainment, conferences etc., and can book accommodation for guests in dedicated Fellows’ guest rooms. Fellows regularly use College facilities to host seminars, colloquia and conferences of several days’ duration. The Fellows’ Resources Room provides networked computers, printers, fax, and photocopiers. The College’s beautiful 17th -century library offers working and reading spaces for all Fellows. December 2024 9 Law at Jesus The College has two Tutorial Fellows in Law: Dr Simon Douglas and Associate Professor Miles Jackson. It also has a Shaw Foundation Junior Research Fellow in Law – Dr Jonas Atmaz Al-Sibaie. Professor Jonathan Harris KC is a Senior Research Fellow. The College normally admits eight undergraduates each year to read Law or Law with Law Studies in Europe. The College normally admits around six to eight postgraduate students a year to read for the BCL, MJur, MSc in Law & Finance, or a doctorate. For further information see www.jesus.ox.ac.uk/people Further Information about the College is available at http://www.jesus.ox.ac.uk/, and information about our academic staff may be found at https://www.jesus.ox.ac.uk/about-jesus-college/our-community/people/. About the University of Oxford Oxford’s departments and colleges aim to lead the world in research and education for the benefit of society both in the UK and globally. Oxford’s researchers engage with academic, commercial and cultural partners across the world to stimulate high-quality research and enable innovation through a broad range of social, policy and economic impacts. Oxford’s self-governing community of international scholars includes Professors, Associate Professors, other college tutors, senior and junior research fellows and a large number of University research staff. Research at Oxford combines disciplinary depth with an increasing focus on inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary activities addressing a rich and diverse range of issues. The current strategic plan can be found at https://www.ox.ac.uk/about/organisation/strategic-plan-2018-24. Oxford’s strengths lie both in empowering individuals and teams to address fundamental questions of global significance, and in providing all staff with a welcoming and inclusive workplace that supports everyone to develop and do their best work. Recognising that diversity is a great strength, and vital for innovation and creativity, Oxford aspires to build a truly inclusive community which values and respects every individual’s unique contribution. While Oxford has long traditions of scholarship, it is also forward-looking, creative and cutting-edge. Oxford is one of Europe's most entrepreneurial universities. It consistently has the highest external research income of any university in the UK (see https://www.ox.ac.uk/about/organisation/finance-and-funding), and regularly creates spinout companies based on academic research generated within and owned by the University. Oxford is also recognised as a leading supporter of social enterprise. Oxford admits undergraduate students with the intellectual potential to benefit fully from the small group learning to which Oxford is deeply committed. Meeting in small groups with their tutor, undergraduates are exposed to rigorous scholarly challenge and learn to develop their critical thinking, their ability to articulate their views with clarity, and their personal and intellectual confidence. They receive a high level of personal attention from leading academics. Oxford has a strong postgraduate student body who are attracted to Oxford by the international standing of the faculty, by the rigorous intellectual training on offer, by the excellent research and laboratory facilities available, and by the resources of the museums and libraries, including one of the world’s greatest libraries, the Bodleian. More information about the organisation of the University of Oxford and the colleges can be found at https://www.ox.ac.uk/about/organisation. December 2024 10 University Benefits, Terms and Conditions Standard duties The Professor of Corporate Law shall undertake research, lecture and give instruction in the field of Corporate Law. The Faculty of Law calculates teaching and supervision duties in terms of ‘stint units’, weighting the various inputs up to a total of 288 units per annum for full-time staff. In more detail, you will be expected: 1. to lecture, or hold classes, in at least two of the three university terms and to give at least thirty-six lectures, seminars or classes in all and not less than twelve in each of two terms (equivalent to 108 stint points in total); and 2. to undertake research and original work and the general supervision of research and advanced work in your subject and faculty, and to assist students in their studies by advice or informal instruction. As a guide, statutory professors are expected to supervise between 4 and 7 research students in addition to the teaching obligation in (1) above. A professor may choose to have their contractual obligation expressed as 108 stint points plus supervision, or 228 stint points to include supervision. Please refer to https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/university-stintobligation for further details. It is expected that professors will generally participate in the business and affairs of the relevant faculty or department. Salary Salary will be determined after appropriate consultation. There is an annual ‘cost-of-living’ review. In addition, the successful appointee will be eligible for consideration, in regular reviews, for Professorial Merit Pay. An additional pensionable allowance will be payable in respect of any period during which the Professor serves as Head of Department/Faculty Board Chair. (Any allowance payable for a period of less than three years will not, however, be pensionable.) Residence You will be required to reside within the University (i.e. within twenty-five miles of Carfax, the central point of Oxford) during at least six months in each academic year, between 1 October and 1 August, and in particular during not less than six weeks of each term. Housing You may be eligible for assistance with housing: some rental accommodation is available for statutory professors moving to Oxford for their first year, and there is a Joint Equity Scheme which new statutory professors may be entitled to join, to help with the purchase of a home in Oxford. General information about home rental and purchase can be found at https://welcome.ox.ac.uk/housing. December 2024 11 Details of University policy in the following areas can be found at the links provided. Pension https://finance.admin.ox.ac.uk/uss Sabbatical leave https://governance.admin.ox.ac.uk/legislation/council-regulations-4-of-2004 Outside commitments https://hr.admin.ox.ac.uk/holding-outside-appointments Intellectual Property https://governance.admin.ox.ac.uk/legislation/council-regulations-7-of-2002 Managing conflicts of interest https://researchsupport.admin.ox.ac.uk/governance/integrity Membership of Congregation https://www.ox.ac.uk/about/organisation/governance https://governance.admin.ox.ac.uk/legislation/statute-iv-congregation Family support https://hr.admin.ox.ac.uk/family-leave-for-academic-staff https://childcare.admin.ox.ac.uk/home https://www.newcomers.ox.ac.uk Welcome for International Staff https://welcome.ox.ac.uk https://staffimmigration.admin.ox.ac.uk Relocation Subject to UK tax regulations and the availability of funding, a relocation allowance may be available. https://finance.admin.ox.ac.uk/relocation-scheme-arrangements#collapse1094916 Promoting diversity https://edu.admin.ox.ac.uk/home Other benefits and discounts for University employees https://hr.admin.ox.ac.uk/discounts Pre-employment screening https://jobs.ox.ac.uk/pre-employment-checks. Length of appointment https://hr.admin.ox.ac.uk/academic-posts-at-oxford#collapse1532056 Retirement The University operates an employer justified retirement age for academic posts of 30 September immediately preceding the 70th birthday. See https://hr.admin.ox.ac.uk/the-ejra Data Privacy https://compliance.admin.ox.ac.uk/job-applicant-privacy-policy https://compliance.admin.ox.ac.uk/data-protection-policy December 2024 12 College Benefits As a Professorial Fellow of Jesus College you will be entitled to the following benefits:  Stipend: there is a nominal Fellowship stipend of £205 per annum OR membership of the College’s medical insurance scheme, worth approx. £700 per annum and including provision of cover (subject to the benefits, terms and conditions) to members/spouses/partners/dependents irrespective of preexisting medical conditions. The College will pay for your own membership of the scheme (a taxable benefit) and will place members of your family in that scheme, if you wish, but only on the basis that you pay for them.  Dining rights: you will be entitled to lunch and dinner free of charge with members of the Senior Common Room during term and vacation, except when the kitchens are closed.  Membership of the Senior Common Room (SCR): £60 per annum charge payable.  Major Research Grants Fund: you will be eligible to apply to a cash-limited Major Research Grants Fund, currently worth approx. £40,000 per annum. Applications are invited in Hilary and Trinity Terms each year. Preference may be given to Fellows at an early stage in their career and to those with little access to alternative funding sources.  You will be provided with an office in College equipped with a standard Windows desktop PC and black & white printer. December 2024 13
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The Faculty of Law and Jesus College are seeking applications for the Professorship of Corporate Law, with effect from 1 October 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter. The Professor of Corporate Law will provide leadership in teaching and research at the highest level in the law governing business associations. We welcome applications from candidates who specialise in particular areas, such as corporate governance, corporate finance law, corporate insolvency law, the regulation of financial markets, corporate law and business purpose, and the regulation of business associations. Comparative and interdisciplinary interests will be an advantage, as will expertise in allied areas of English law. You will be expected to contribute to the leadership of the Faculty’s academic community (in particular the Business Law Research Group), to develop research strategy, and to deliver and develop innovative teaching curricula. You will have an important role in nurturing the intellectual climate of legal studies, and will be expected to provide support and mentorship to more junior colleagues and academic visitors. You should have an outstanding record of internationally recognised scholarship and an excellent publication record indicating the potential to produce further significant work during the tenure of the chair. In addition to excellence in your own research, teaching and supervision, you should have the intellectual leadership skills to be able to support colleagues to foster outstanding research and teaching in Corporate Law at all levels. The closing date for applications is 12:00 noon UK time on Monday 27 January 2025. Interviews are expected to be held in March or April 2025. Informal enquiries are welcome and may be made in strict confidence to Professor John Armour, the Dean of the Faculty of Law (john.armour@law.ox.ac.uk).
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The Faculty of Law and Jesus College are seeking applications for the Professorship of Corporate Law, with effect from 1 October 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter. The Professor of Corporate Law will provide leadership in teaching and research at the highest level in the law governing business associations. We welcome applications from candidates who specialise in particular areas, such as corporate governance, corporate finance law, corporate insolvency law, the regulation of financial markets, corporate law and business purpose, and the regulation of business associations. Comparative and interdisciplinary interests will be an advantage, as will expertise in allied areas of English law. You will be expected to contribute to the leadership of the Faculty’s academic community (in particular the Business Law Research Group), to develop research strategy, and to deliver and develop innovative teaching curricula. You will have an important role in nurturing the intellectual climate of legal studies, and will be expected to provide support and mentorship to more junior colleagues and academic visitors. You should have an outstanding record of internationally recognised scholarship and an excellent publication record indicating the potential to produce further significant work during the tenure of the chair. In addition to excellence in your own research, teaching and supervision, you should have the intellectual leadership skills to be able to support colleagues to foster outstanding research and teaching in Corporate Law at all levels. The closing date for applications is **12:00 noon UK time on Monday 27 January 2025**. Interviews are expected to be held in March or April 2025. Informal enquiries are welcome and may be made in strict confidence to Professor John Armour, the Dean of the Faculty of Law (john.armour@law.ox.ac.uk).
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