Position overview Position title: Assistant Professor of Law Salary range: The current salary range for this position is $203,900 –$333,600 (9-month academic year salary), however, off-scale salary and other components of pay, which would yield compensation that is higher than this range, are offered to meet competitive conditions. Anticipated start: July 1, 2027 Application Window Open date: June 26, 2026 Next
review date: Friday, Aug 14, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee. Final date: Friday, Aug 14, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) Applications will continue to be accepted until this date. Position description The Jurisprudence and Social Policy (JSP) PhD Program in the School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley invites entry-level and early-career
lateral applicants for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position with a primary research and curricular focus on the criminal legal system in its practical, institutional, historical, social, economic, and political contexts. We seek applications from scholars versed in qualitative and/or quantitative research methods and with a demonstrated record of and/or potential for outstanding scholarship in the field that
contributes to its interdisciplinary development. Possible areas of specialization might include but certainly are not limited to: criminal courts; policing and civil rights; mass incarceration; race and the carceral state; abolition and reform; punishment and society; the economics of crime; and the politics of law and order. We welcome applicants who engage with social impact, public engagement, and social justice
in their scholarship. Our search is open to comparativists and scholars whose work is primarily on a non-U.S. legal system. However, we are particularly interested in applicants who will have at least a substantial comparative interest in the US criminal legal system. JSP represents disciplinary and interdisciplinary training across the social sciences, history, and philosophy/political theory, and takes primary
responsibility for directing a diverse student body in our PhD program. JSP faculty also are primarily responsible for and teach core courses in Berkeley’s interdisciplinary undergraduate Legal Studies major. The JSP Program attracts a diverse student body with a variety of experiences before graduate school. The JSP Program is committed to methodological pluralism and encourages scholars to apply who are willing and
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