APTPUO - Spring-Summer / Fall 2026 - CML4113 - Selected Problems in Legal Practice - Memos Made Easy
University of Ottawa
Posting Reason:
New PositionLocation:
Main CampusAcademic Period:
2026 Spring-Summer SemesterFaculty:
Section de Common Law / Common Law SectionAcademic Unit:
Common law \\ Common LawCourse Title:
CML4113Course Code:
Selected Problems in Legal Practice - Legal Memos Made EasySection:
TBDCourse Description:
Designed to fit with the work demands of students undertaking summer jobs, this course enables students to work at their own pace to write and edit a legal memo, guided by online interim assignments that take approximately three to ten hours a week to complete. The course emphasizes applying feedback and reflection to continuously improve student work. The Professor leads students through an editing workshop and meets them individually to give feedback. A researcher assigned to the course to evaluate the effectiveness of asynchronous legal writing instructions is available to students to discuss any assignment.Posting limited to:
Professeur à temps-partiel régulier / Regular Part-Time ProfessorDate Posted (YYYY/MM/DD):
2026/04/01Applications must be received BEFORE (YYYY/MM/DD):
2026/05/08Expected Enrolment:
TBDApproval date:
2026/04/07Number of credits:
3Work Hours:
39Hourly Rate:
Enseignement / Teaching: $239.47 (2024-2025)The academic year starts on September 1 and ends on August 31.
These rates do not included vacation pay nor statutory pay.
These rates will be applied until a new collective agreement is ratified. Retro will be paid after the ratification.
Course type:
BPosting type:
Irrégulier / IrregularLanguage of instruction:
Anglais | EnglishCompetence in second language:
PassiveCourse Schedule:
- - - N/ARequirements:
The Common Law Section is seeking candidates with extensive experience writing both predictive and persuasive legal documents and giving oral and written feedback on writing. Experience teaching legal writing and experience as a mentor is an asset. Candidates must be willing to use active learning strategies and provide extensive feedback on multiple assignments. Writing professors work as a team directed by the Legal Writing Academy. Candidates may be interviewed.
The Common Law Section reserves the right to select a candidate who does not fully meet each of these requirements, where the candidate’s selection would be beneficial to the program, the course, the students or for a related reason.
Additional Information and/or Comments:
An acceptable level of education and/or experience could be viewed as being equivalent to the educational required and/or demonstrated experience. If you are invited to continue the selection process, please notify us of any adaptive measures you might require. Information you send us will be handled respectfully and in complete confidence. Employees are required under provincial law to successfully complete all mandatory legislated training. The list of training may be modified by provincial law.
The hiring process will be governed by the current APTPUO collective agreements; you can click here for the main unit, here for the OLBI unit, or here for the Toronto/Windsor unit to find out more.
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