JOB DESCRIPTION
Position Title
- Professor – School of Legal Studies Department: School of Legal Studies

Location:
REVA-University, Bengaluru Campus

Key Responsibilities
1. Academic Excellence & Teaching Leadership
• Deliver advanced teaching across Undergraduate, Postgraduate, and Doctoral programmes in Law.
• Contribute to curriculum enrichment, syllabus revision, and course design in accordance with emerging legal developments, judicial trends, and BCI/UGC requirements.
• Introduce innovative pedagogical practices including case law analysis, moot simulations, clinical legal education, drafting workshops, and experiential learning modules.
• Develop academic resources, legal case repositories, teaching manuals, and student reference materials.
• Support continuous academic quality enhancement within the school. 2. Research, Publications & Scholarly Contribution
• Lead and contribute to high-quality legal research in specialized domains of law.
• Publish research papers in Scopus/UGC Care/peer-reviewed indexed journals, books, book chapters, and policy papers.
• Undertake funded research projects, legal consultancy assignments, and socio-legal studies.
• Promote interdisciplinary research collaborations with other Schools, legal institutions, and policy think tanks.
• Guide development of case studies, legal commentaries, white papers, and legislative review papers. 3. Faculty Mentoring & Academic Support
• Mentor junior faculty members in teaching effectiveness, lesson planning, classroom engagement, and academic documentation.
• Support faculty in research publication strategies, project proposal writing, FDP participation,



and academic career progression.
• Provide academic guidance in outcome-based education, accreditation preparedness, and quality assurance initiatives.
• Assist the School leadership in maintaining academic discipline and performance standards. 4. Student Development & Academic Mentorship
• Guide students in academic progression, dissertation work, legal research, publications, moot court preparation, internships, and competitive examinations.
• Encourage participation in moot courts, legal aid clinics, ADR forums, court visits, and national/international legal competitions.
• Strengthen professional ethics, legal drafting, advocacy, analytical reasoning, and employability skills among students.
• Mentor doctoral scholars and postgraduate researchers in thesis quality and publication outcomes. 5. Academic Administration & Compliance Support
• Support implementation of academic regulations, BCI norms, UGC guidelines, NAAC standards, and University quality benchmarks.
• Contribute to academic audits, departmental reports, course files, lesson plans, and statutory documentation.
• Participate in Board of Studies, Research Committees, IQAC initiatives, examination reforms, and curriculum review meetings.




• Assist in accreditation evidence preparation and departmental academic planning. 6. Industry, Judiciary & Institutional Outreach
• Develop professional linkages with judiciary members, senior advocates, law firms, corporate legal divisions, NGOs, and policy institutions.
• Organize guest lectures, legal conclaves, workshops, faculty development programmes, and continuing legal education sessions.
• Facilitate internships, chamber attachments, field exposure, and legal practitioner interactions for students.
• Contribute to institutional branding, admissions outreach, rankings, and reputation building through external engagement. Qualification & Experience
• Ph.
D. in Law from a premium institution with consistently strong academic credentials.
• Minimum 15 to 20 years of teaching/research experience in higher legal education.
• Demonstrated experience in legal research supervision, publication, curriculum development, and faculty mentoring.
• Solid understanding of Bar Council of India regulations, UGC norms, NAAC standards, and legal education quality frameworks.
• Proven record of scholarly publications, conference presentations, institutional committee participation, and academic leadership contribution. Key Skills Required
• International Law
• Advanced Legal Scholarship
• Academic Mentorship
• Curriculum Development
• Legal Research Orientation
• Faculty Capacity Building
• Regulatory Awareness
• Student Guidance & Supervision
• Institutional Networking
• Academic Documentation
• Communication & Stakeholder Engagement

📌 Professor of Law (Bengaluru)
🏢 Reva University
📍 Bengaluru