UVic Law Dean’s Graduate Fellowship 2025-26

Call for Expressions of Interest

The Faculty invites applications for its Dean’s Graduate Fellowship. The Fellowship will support the research and teaching development of a doctoral student in at least the third year of their program. The UVic Law Dean’s Fellow will be working towards completing their dissertation and publishing parts of their graduate work. They will actively participate in the intellectual life of the law school. In 2025-26 the Fellow is expected to teach first-year Constitutional Law in the JD program. It is not anticipated that they will carry any administrative responsibilities.

The Fellow will be in residence from 1 August 2025 – 31 May 2026, and will receive $50,000 (a sessional teaching appointment and a fellowship stipend).

Applications will be adjudicated on the basis of academic record and the connections between the applicant’s teaching and research interests and Constitutional Law.

About UVic Law

Since our founding in the mid-1970s, the Faculty of Law at the University of Victoria has sought to make a unique contribution to legal education in Canada, striving for innovation in the classroom, creativity and leadership in research, with due attention to the needs of Canada’s most marginalized communities. Home to some of Canada’s most innovative and dynamic thinkers, the Faculty of Law has created a vibrant learning environment based on a commitment to social justice, humane professionalism and civic responsibility, and critical interdisciplinary policy-oriented research and teaching. Dedicated to providing students with the skills, knowledge and judgment they will need to embark on diverse careers, UVic Law offers a rich curriculum that includes the only common-law co-operative legal education program in Canada and a diversity of experiential education opportunities. In September 2018, we welcomed the inaugural class in our path-breaking transsystemic joint degree program in Canadian Common Law and Indigenous Legal Orders (JD/JID). We are a faculty with a commitment to diversification across our ranks, particularly, although not limited to: marginalized sexualities, gender identity, disability, Indigeneity and racialization. And we do all of this in Canada’s most beautiful urban paradise.

What you have to do to apply

Applications, consisting of a cover letter that specifies areas of teaching interest, a curriculum vitae, description of planned research activities, teaching evaluations (if available), the names and email addresses of two academic referees who you have asked to submit letters of reference, and a statement of progress towards completion of doctoral work should be sent by email to lawfas@uvic.ca. Applicants should contact their referees and ask them to send their reference letters directly to lawfas@uvic.ca. Applications received by 23 April 2025 will receive the fullest consideration.

We acknowledge and respect the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Songhees and Xʷsepsəm/Esquimalt) Peoples on whose territory the university stands, and the Lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.

UVic is committed to upholding the values of equity, diversity, inclusion and human rights in our living, learning and work environments. In pursuit of our values, we seek members who are eager to actively participate in that shared responsibility. We actively encourage applications from members of historically and systemically marginalized groups. Read our full equity statement.

We recognize that many of these identities intersect and that therefore, equity, diversity and inclusion can be complex. We value the contributions that each person brings and are committed to ensuring full and equal participation for all in our community.

All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; if you are neither a Canadian citizen or permanent resident, please indicate if you are authorized to work in Canada, and be prepared to provide a copy of your permit authorizing same