Additional Policies

Service

Each faculty member is expected to conscientiously carry out the work of any University or Law School committee and other assignment made by the Dean for Faculty and Research. In order to help manage workloads, a faculty member should not agree to serve on a University committee or other similar assignment without the approval of the Dean for Faculty and Research.

Student Support and Participation

Faculty are expected to be available for and engage students as much as possible both inside and outside the classroom.

All faculty members are expected to organize their professional and personal schedules to permit them to participate in our annual graduation ceremony and reception and our annual school-wide orientation event for the incoming students. A faculty member who is unable to attend either the orientation or graduation event must contact the Dean directly as far in advance as possible. Attendance at these events will be excused only for significant, non-recurring family events (such as weddings, child graduations) or for being engaged in professional activity that advances the mission of the Law School or the University and that has the Dean's prior approval.

Food for Classes

As a general policy, the Law School will not pay for, reimburse anyone for, or provide support for, food provided to classes by individual professors, whether during classes or otherwise, including make-up classes or evening classes. This rule applies to all programs. Research account funds similarly may not be used for meals or refreshments for classes. 

There are two major exceptions to this general policy:  

One-time Onsite Refreshments for non-1L Classes
The Law School will reimburse faculty members for snacks and non-alcoholic beverages purchased for students in non-1L classes on one day of in-person instruction per semester. Reimbursements for these refreshments will not exceed $15 per individual (total, including tax and tip). This policy applies to all programs and is available to residential faculty only.  

Outside Meals for 1L Classes
The Law School will reimburse faculty members who teach required 1L classes for hosting small group meals of their 1L students at an offsite location. Typically, the size of the group should be between three and six students and the instructor. Reimbursements for these meals will not exceed $30 per individual (total, including tax and tip), and a list of names of students must be provided in the reimbursement.

Parking

Each year the Law School will provide each faculty member who otherwise qualifies under University rules with a parking space in one of the University lots at the prevailing University rates. In allocating spaces in specific lots, consideration will be given to the faculty members' teaching-related needs for access to his or her vehicle during the work day and to reasonable security concerns. An allocation of a space in a specific lot is for one year only and subject to reallocation in subsequent years.

Courtesy Appointments

Faculty from other schools in the University may be appointed by the Dean upon the advice of the Law School's Personnel Committee as members of the Law School faculty. Such appointments shall be for a term of three years and renewable for additional terms if the appointee has taken steps to take advantage of the appointment.

Courtesy appointees carry the title of Assistant, Associate, or Professor of Law (depending on their title in their home School and department) and enjoy non-monetary benefits, such as access to the Law School library and staff participation in workshop series. Courtesy faculty are not entitled to vote at faculty meetings.

Emeritus Faculty

Upon obtaining the Provost's approval for emeritus status, the following policies will apply to retired faculty:

Teaching
If the Law School requests and the faculty member is willing, the emeritus faculty member may continue to teach, in which case he or she will be appointed "professor emeritus in service". For each course taught, the faculty member will receive the compensation in effect at the time for a faculty member teaching an overload in a degree program (see Course Overload).

Office and Parking
If the emeritus faculty member is teaching in the residential degree programs, he or she will have an office during the period of his or her teaching, and will be provided University parking at the rate for faculty then in effect in one of the University lots. Emeritus faculty will not generally be provided either an office or parking if they are not teaching in one of the degree programs.

Faculty Meetings
An emeritus faculty member may attend all faculty meetings, which he or she would have been able to attend prior to retirement, except that such faculty member will not have a vote.