Hunter Biden, the son of former Vice President Joe Biden, reportedly touted his political connections in order to obtain a teaching position at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law.

New emails reveal that, while communicating with university officials, Biden attempted to convince the administration to have him teach a course on drug policy, providing a potential list of guest lecturers who were largely connected to his father.

“In 2019, Hunter Biden inquired about the possibility of teaching a course at UCLA School of Law, and he and school leaders held preliminary conversations about the possibility,” Bill Kisliuk, the law school’s executive director of communications, told the Daily Caller. “Mr. Biden subsequently did not submit further materials for the proposed course, which is a required step when the school is considering adding a course. There are no plans for Mr. Biden to teach at the law school,” Kisliuk continued.

In July 2019, Biden reportedly emailed Jennifer Mnookin, the dean of UCLA's law school, saying he “would like to focus on domestic and international drug policy” and attaching a syllabus from a previous course he taught at Georgetown University. “I will have some combination of key decision makers, leading thinkers, policy implementers and grass roots advocates as guests for each topic,” he wrote in an email.

“For instance I’d like to have former Attorney’s General Dustin McDaniel of Arkansas and Patrick Lynch of Rhode Island to discuss their roles in the state class action suits brought against Purdue Pharma and possibly a prosecutor involved in the criminal cases against the Sackler family,” Biden wrote. “For plan Colombia the El Chapo extradition I’m certain I could get former President Pastrana of Colombia to discuss how he implemented ‘Plan Colombia’ with the US government along with Christopher Putala and Manus Cooney who were both chief’s of staff (Democrat and Republican) to the judiciary committee at the time."

“I would also invite former FBI Director Louis Freeh and possibly the US Attorney responsible for that extradition and indictment. For a the class on decriminalization I would invite [California] Governor [Gavin] Newsom (may be a long shot but I know he would consider it if his schedule allows)... The list goes on.”

The emails reportedly show that, at one point, Mnookin met with Biden about the course, noting she thought Biden's proposal "offers some very exciting possibilities."

“It was great to meet you and Melissa last month, and I very much appreciate your following up and sending along the attached syllabus,” she wrote in an August 2019 email. “I think this offers some very exciting possibilities, and I look forward to seeing what we may be able to do.”

Mnookin forwarded Biden's proposal to another UCLA law school official, Steven Bank, who later informed the former vice president's son that he would not be able to integrate the course into the school's curriculum until Spring 2021 "most likely." Conversations between university officials and Biden diminished after Bank's dismissal.

“Thanks for getting back to me so quickly, although I hope I didn’t give you the impression in my e-mail that this was a rush,” Bank said in an email. “If we decided to move forward, this wouldn’t even be considered by the Curriculum Committee and the Faculty until Spring 2020 for a Spring 2021 slot most likely.”

The controversy follows Joe Biden's public boast that he pressured Ukraine to fire a controversial top prosecutor whose office had investigated Burisma owner and Ukrainian oligarch Mykola Zlochevsky by threatening to withhold $1 billion in loan guarantees.

The former vice president has repeatedly denied doing so in order to benefit his son, who was on Burisma's board, in the face of corruption allegations by President Trump and his allies, which became the center of an impeachment effort.