The Data Ecology Research Initiative at the University of Chicago?s Data Science Institute seeks a full-time Law Fellow, appointed at the rank of Lecturer,  effective July 1, 2025. The appointment is for one-year, with possible reappointment for a second term. We seek candidates who have a law degree, demonstrate the promise of distinguished legal scholarship and teaching and who bring backgrounds and perspectives that enrich student experiences and the Law School?s intellectual culture.

The Research Initiative is a multidisciplinary effort to understand how legal rules and technical design work together (and, at times, are at odds with one another) to regulate data to desired ends. We have projects in areas ranging from policing and immigration, to elections and public health, to antitrust, private data markets, and others. 

The Law Fellow will be central to the Research Initiative and responsible for participating in multidisciplinary research projects, managing the Initiative?s public communications, and teaching a seminar on a related topic. The Fellow will also have significant time for their own academic scholarship with an eye to going on the legal academic job market in their second year.

The Law Fellow will sit at the University of Chicago Law School and participate in the intellectual life of both the Law School and the Data Science Institute.

Applicants should have a law degree and the goal of pursuing legal academia and research interests related to data and the law broadly understood. We welcome scholars with diverse methodological emphases, whether public law, private law, or computer science.

Applications should include a cover letter, CV, law school transcript, writing sample, and list of 2-3 references. Interested applicants must apply here:  http://apply.interfolio.com/159824 .

Please contact Bridget Fahey ([email protected]) with any questions.

All University departments and institutes are charged with building a faculty from a diversity of backgrounds and with diverse viewpoints; with cultivating an inclusive community that values freedom of expression; and with welcoming and supporting all their members.

We seek a diverse pool of applicants who wish to join an academic community that places the highest value on rigorous inquiry and encourages diverse perspectives, experiences, groups of individuals, and ideas to inform and stimulate intellectual challenge, engagement, and exchange. The University?s Statements on Diversity are at https://provost.uchicago.edu/statements-diversity.

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