CORNELL LAW SCHOOL seeks to hire a French Family First Amendment Clinic Fellow to report to the Assistant Director of the First Amendment Clinic at Cornell Law School.  The French Family First Amendment Fellow will collaborate with the Director, Mark Jackson, and Assistant Director, Cortelyou Kenney, to support the management and activities of our newest clinical initiative, which formally launched in the spring semester of 2019. The Clinic focuses on two core First Amendment objectives: (1) litigating and supporting cases and other legal proceedings that further the cause of free speech, freedom of information, and aid the news-gathering process; and (2) cultivating a new group of diverse lawyers who are educated about the freedom of speech embodied in the First Amendment and prepared to pursue careers defending free speech principles.

Responsibilities include the following:

• Provide supervision to students in the Clinic, including feedback, mentoring, and training.
• Manage ongoing cases, ensuring that the work is done in a timely and professional manner.
• Assist with the organization and teaching of the Clinic, focusing on substantive knowledge of First Amendment doctrine and the litigation process, as well as effective legal writing, advocacy, and client relations skills.
• Help develop the focus of cases the Clinic will work on, such as access to information, protection of sources and the news-gathering process, general libel and privacy defense, and digital information rights.
• Collaborate with the Director and Assistant Director on programming to bring free speech issues to the broader Law School and University communities.
• Support the research and writing of policy papers with the goal of influencing the public debate on free speech matters as well as amicus briefs in cases in which important free speech rights are at issue.
• Help maintain relationships within the legal and journalism community, including regional (New York and surrounding states) news platforms and journalists, law firms and advocacy organizations that focus on free speech and related fields, and First Amendment clinics at other law schools.
• Assist in managing the financial resources for the program, including monitoring financial activities and transactions.

This is a full-time position for a two-year term, and is benefits eligible. Reappointment for an additional one-year term is possible based on performance and funding availability. The successful candidate will be expected to start between August 1 and August 15, 2019.

Requirements: The French Family Fellow must be a law graduate, with practice experience and background in constitutional law or freedom of information laws. A clerkship or clerkships are desirable, but not required.

To Apply: Please submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, three references, a writing sample (should be an unedited or slightly edited brief or bench memo), and other significant supporting materials to https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/13544. To ensure maximum consideration, please submit all application materials by June 1, 2019. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, with priority given to early applicants.

Founded in 1887, Cornell Law School is a top-tier law school, currently ranked 13th by U.S. News & World Report. We offer a 3-year JD program for about 200 students per class, a one-year LLM program for about 90 students from countries throughout the world, and a doctoral (JSD) program for about 2-3 new students per year. Cornell Law School has 41 tenured and tenure-track faculty, including 20 with chaired faculty positions; and 15 clinical professors in the legal research and writing program and in clinics at the local, national, and international level. Our faculty is consistently ranked among the top in the country for scholarly productivity and influence, and has pre-eminence in many areas, including empirical legal studies, international and comparative law, and robust doctrinal scholarship in core fields. Our school is committed to being recognized as the leader among law schools at combining inspiring theoretical, doctrinal, and experiential teaching with cutting-edge scholarship in a supportive, intellectually rich community, so that our graduates can achieve excellence in all facets of the legal profession.