Seton Hall University School of Law invites applications for a tenure-track position for a new Medical-Legal Partnership (“MLP”) Clinic in Seton Hall's Center for Social Justice beginning on July 1, 2017. The clinical professor will have the opportunity to work with Seton Hall faculty to design this new MLP Clinic, which will benefit from partnership with the faculty and students at Seton Hall University’s new Medical School, which is expected to begin admitting students in 2018.
The MLP Clinic is anticipated to follow the MLP model in that it will (1) participate in interdisciplinary learning and advocacy involving legal and medical professionals; (2) advocate for client/patients in traditional areas of need, including family, housing, public benefits; and (3) address the social determinants of health to address personal and community health concerns, which may include (depending on community needs) the availability of nutritious food, access to employment/job training services, access to public space for recreation/exercise, and access to social services. The exact nature of the MLP Clinic will be the subject of planning in which the clinical professor will participate.
The full-time clinical teaching load entails supervising eight students in the fall andin the spring semesters and teaching (or co-teaching) a weekly two-hour seminar for those students addressing practical and substantive issues that arise in the clinic’s client representation. Faculty at the Center for Social Justice frequently take advantage of the opportunity to teach non-clinical courses.
The Law School has a vibrant and long-standing clinical program. The Center for Social Justice encompasses six clinical programs (Civil Litigation and Practice, Equal Justice, Family Law, Immigrants’ Rights/International Human Rights, Impact Litigation, and Juvenile Justice) which engage in a combination of direct services, impact litigation, and broader advocacy work. The Center also houses ourPro Bono Programs. Seton Hall University School of Law is also home to one of the top health law programs in the nation.
The position is tenure-track and carries with it the full according benefits and responsibilities of that status. Clinical professors are expected to produce scholarship of the same quality as that of all other faculty, but are permitted a longer time to produce the same quantity of work.
Candidates should have an excellent academic record, a commitment to social justice, poverty law, and/or health law work, a dedication to teaching students, and scholarly promise or achievement. Candidates should also be prepared to present their comprehensive vision for teaching, administering, growing and cultivating enduring support for the new MLP Clinic. Experience representing indigent clients or prior teaching in a clinical setting is preferred but not required.
Seton Hall's Law School is located at the heart of downtown Newark's flourishing renaissance, one block from Newark Penn Station (with trains and subway service to many parts of New Jersey and to New York City) and one block from the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, and within walking distance of the state and federal courthouses, museums, restaurants, andthe Prudential Center, thesports complex that is the home of the New Jersey Devils, the Seton Hall Pirates basketball team, and many concerts. Manhattan is a 23-minute train ride away.
For more information, see http://law.shu.edu/ (Seton Hall Law School) or http://law.shu.edu/csj/index.html (Center for Social Justice).
To apply, please send a resume and cover letter electronically to Prof. Alice Ristroph, Chair, Faculty Appointments Committee, Seton Hall Law School atalice.ristroph@shu.edu. Preliminary inquiries can be directed to Prof. Lori Nessel, Director of the Center for Social Justice, at (973) 642-8708 orlori.nessel@shu.edu.
Seton Hall Law School is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.