THE UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE SCHOOL OF LAW invites applications for a Fellowship in its Civil Advocacy Clinic to start on or about July 1, 2020. This public interest fellowship program offers practicing attorneys exposure to law school clinical teaching. This public interest fellowship program offers practicing attorneys exposure to law school clinical teaching.  For more information about UB's clinical program and the Saul Ewing Civil Advocacy Clinic, please go here: http://law.ubalt.edu/clinics/index.cfm.

We look forward to receiving your required electronic application with a cover letter and resume and learning about your interest in and qualifications for our vacancy.  Please save your required cover letter and resume as one document and attach it in the resume location.

The Civil Advocacy Clinic represents low-income individuals and organizations in poverty law litigation, legislative advocacy, and legal reform.  The Clinic handles a wide variety of cases, which include housing, public benefits, consumer, and employment law.  The Fellow’s duties include direct supervision of clinic students’ client, case, legislative advocacy and community education work, co-teaching a weekly clinic seminar, and engaging in course planning and preparation with the other faculty members in the Clinic.  The Fellowship focuses its first year on the skills of teaching, from crafting and leading seminars, to facilitating supervision meetings with student-attorneys. The second year of the fellowship focuses on developing legal scholarship. The third year, we support the Fellow to go on the clinical teaching job market. In addition to teaching, supervision, and legal scholarship, the Fellow is responsible for case coverage during school vacations.   This position is a three-year contractual appointment.

Required Qualifications: Excellent oral and written communication skills; a J.D. and at least two years of experience as a practicing lawyer primarily in litigation; a strong academic record and/or other indicia of high-performance ability; commitment to work for low income clients; and a strong interest in law school teaching and scholarship. Fellows must be members in good standing with the Maryland Bar or another State bar and willing to complete the necessary documentation to be permitted to supervise law practice by students.

Salary: The current salary is $55,500.  The position includes full benefits, including retirement, research support, and a travel allowance to attend relevant conferences and workshops.  

Position is open until filled, and applications submitted by April 17, 2020 will receive priority consideration. For more details about the Fellows’ Program, please view our website at http://law.ubalt.edu/clinics/fellows/.

The University of Baltimore ("UB" or "University") does not discriminate on the basis of sex, gender, race, religion, age, disability, national origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other legally protected characteristics in its programs, activities or employment practices. UB is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/ADA Compliant Employer & Title IX Institution.

THE GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER Civil Rights Clinic invites applications for a two-year graduate fellow/staff attorney position to start in August 2020.

Civil Rights Clinic

The faculty member responsible for the Civil Rights Clinic and Voting Rights Institute is Professor Aderson Francois. Professor Francois joined the faculty in 2016. Prior to joining the Georgetown faculty, Professor Francois directed the Civil Rights Clinic at Howard University School of Law, where he also taught Constitutional Law, Federal Civil Rights, and Supreme Court Jurisprudence.

CRC operates as a public interest law firm, representing individual clients and other public interest organizations, primarily in the areas of discrimination and constitutional rights, workplace fairness, and open government. Beginning in the Fall of 2016, the section expanded its work into the area of voting rights. Students interview clients, develop case theories, draft and file complaints in state and federal courts, conduct discovery, engage in motions practice, and prepare appeals. Students also file FOIA requests and analyze responsive documents, and work in coalition with other public interest organizations to develop impact cases. Recent projects include:

o  Litigating a complex federal Freedom of Information Act suit against the Department of Defense and the CIA on behalf of researchers seeking records on “enhanced interrogation” used in the War on Terror;

o  Litigating wage theft claims against private entities and government contractors on behalf of employees denied fair wages or overtime;

o  Litigating retaliation claims on behalf of employees terminated for asserting their rights under FLSA and DC Wage and Hour law;

o  Litigating on behalf of an individual improperly assessed a deficiency under Maryland consumer protection statutes;

o  Litigating on behalf of an individual whose employer improperly denied her the lactation breaks she was entitled to under state and federal law;

o  Litigating on behalf of an individual whose employer improperly denied her disability and pregnancy accommodations, discriminated against her on account of her national origin, and illegally assessed fees against her in connection with her resignation;

o  Filing amicus briefs in four appellate cases – two pending before the United States Supreme Court, one in the DC Circuit, and one in the New York Court of Appeals;

o  Filing FOIA requests and using the responsive documents to prepare reports exposing government misconduct;

o  Preparing and arguing two appeals in federal court, one in the DC Circuit and one in the Fifth Circuit; and

o  On behalf of a public interest organization, analyzing potential APA claims related to the recall of exploding airbags and other automobile defects.

For more detailed information about our work, applicants should review our annual reports.

What do the Graduate Fellows/Staff Attorneys do?

Fellows are responsible for day-to-day supervision of the students and work closely with the students on improving their lawyering skills, especially legal writing. In the civil rights section, the fellow has principal responsibility for about half of the docket and supervises all facets of the litigation. Much of the fellow’s time is spent guiding students in legal and factual research, reviewing student drafts, making suggestions for improvement, and preparing the students for oral presentations. In recent years, fellows have worked on all phases of litigation, including taking depositions, handling evidentiary hearings, and briefing cases before federal district courts, courts of appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court. Fellows also play a key role in case development and in planning other CRC activities. Fellows participate in case rounds and assist in teaching seminars on litigation practice and substantive law.

Past fellows have emphasized that the CRC experience is unique in several respects:

First, the fellows work on interesting, often cutting-edge litigation. In light of our broad agenda, we have leeway to develop cases that present unique educational opportunities for students and fellows and have a significant impact on the law.

Second, fellows assume substantial responsibility and generally play a more important role in the decision making process than do their contemporaries in other types of law practice. They work on a variety of cases in different stages of the litigation process and gain a broad understanding of how litigation works, from interviewing a potential client through appealing to the Supreme Court. Fellows also work closely with other CRC fellows and other public interest organizations, meeting other lawyers involved in public interest law and seeing how their organizations function.

Third, fellows work closely with a full-time faculty member who has substantial litigation experience and expertise. As part of the Georgetown Law community, fellows are encouraged to attend seminars, workshops, and programs both on and off campus. Georgetown provides substantial support and guidance for fellows interested in pursuing academic scholarship or careers.

Pay and other benefits

The annual salary is $57,000 for the first year of the fellowship and $60,000 for the second year. The fellow also receives health and dental benefits and all tuition and fees in the L.L.M. program. Fellows also have unlimited free access to a state-of-the-art, on-site fitness center. As full-time students, fellows qualify for deferment of their student loans. Fellows may be eligible for loan repayment assistance from their law schools.

How to apply

Applicants should submit

o a brief statement explaining the applicant’s interest in the position

o a resume 

o a law school transcript

o a list of references, including contact information

o a recent legal writing sample of any length representing the applicant’s most challenging legal work. Please do not send an excerpt. The writing sample should not be a collaborative work or significantly edited by someone else.

The application materials should be sent in a single PDF file attached to an email to Maria Islam at mi368@georgetown.edu.

Applications will be considered on a rolling basis, and the position will remain open until filled. We will select candidates to be interviewed. Although we will not pay candidates’ travel expenses, we will try to arrange interviews at a time convenient for the candidate.

For more information, please see the posting at: https://www.law.georgetown.edu/experiential-learning/clinics/civil-rights-clinic/fellowships/. 

THE HEALTH JUSTICE ALLIANCE LAW CLINIC is accepting applications for a Two-Year Clinical Teaching Fellowship, from 2020 to 2022.

Clinic Description

The Health Justice Alliance Law Clinic is part of a medical-legal partnership between Georgetown Law Center and Georgetown University Medical Center. Launched in August 2017, the Law Clinic integrates law students directly into Georgetown community-based health clinics serving children and families living in poverty in Washington, D.C. Law students provide civil legal services to address barriers that affect patient health and well-being in collaboration with medical students, physicians, and other healthcare providers.

Patients at these clinics face multi-generational, complex, civil legal needs, many of which negatively impact their health and well-being. Among the needs currently being served are those related to education, housing, family law, and public benefits, including access to health insurance. By partnering directly with healthcare providers, who help identify when patients have unmet legal needs, the Law Clinic is implementing an upstream legal services approach that fills an important access to justice gap in D.C. and works to treat legal issues before they escalate into more serious legal crises. By meeting patients’ medical and legal needs in places where they already have trusted relationships, the HJA Law Clinic offers a unique and especially effective method for reducing the barriers to justice that often confront people living in poverty.  Medical students rotate into the law clinic and collaborate with law students and clinical teaching fellows in providing holistic advocacy to client families. 

Description of the Fellowship

The Health Justice Alliance Law Clinic is hiring an individual to serve as a clinical teaching fellow and supervising attorney for two years. The two-year fellowship may start as early as May 2020. The fellowship is designed for a lawyer interested in developing teaching and supervisory abilities in a setting that emphasizes a dual commitment—clinical education of law students and poverty lawyering in the context of a medical-legal partnership and in the areas of civil legal aid identified above.  The fellow will supervise law students providing civil legal services to families living in poverty and serve as a mentor and role model to law students in the clinic, which has a track record of attracting students from historically underrepresented backgrounds.  The fellow will join the clinical teaching team, which consists of a senior teaching fellow and clinic director, in supervising law students, teaching law clinic seminar classes, and facilitating case rounds. The teaching team is highly collaborative and uses a team-based approach to pedagogy planning and problem solving. Successful completion of the fellowship results in the award of an L.L.M. in Advocacy from Georgetown University.

Fellows have several areas of responsibility, with an increasing role in the clinic and student supervision as the fellowship progresses.  Over the course of the two years, the fellow will:

• Directly represent clients who are referred by our health care partners;
• Supervise students in casework and clinic projects;
• Share responsibility for designing and teaching seminar sessions;
• Assist with administrative and case handling responsibilities of the clinic;
• Participate in a clinical pedagogy seminar and other activities for the L.L.M., which is designed to support an interest in clinical teaching and legal education;
• Collaborate with law and medical students and faculty on research, policy, education, advocacy, and/or other projects designed to increase access to justice and health for underserved D.C. residents.

Teaching fellows receive an annual stipend of approximately $57,000 in the first year and $60,000 in the second year, health and dental benefits, and all tuition and fees in the LL.M. program. As full-time students, teaching fellows may qualify for deferment of their student loans and/or may be eligible for loan repayment assistance from their law schools.

Qualifications

The Health Justice Alliance Law Clinic seeks a prospective fellow with:

• Experience providing civil legal services to low-income clients (special education law, housing, and/or public benefits are areas of particular need);
• Minimum of 3 years of post-J.D. legal experience;
• Membership in the District of Columbia Bar (if not a member of the D.C. Bar must apply for admission by waiver upon accepting the fellowship offer);
• Demonstrated commitment to social justice and an interest in clinical teaching; and
• Prior medical, health-related, or mental health-related experience a plus.

Application Instructions:

Please submit a letter of interest, résumé/CV, complete law school transcript, a list of at least three references, and a writing sample (max. 10 pages) to HealthJusticeAlliance@georgetown.edu by Friday, February 7, 2020. Candidates will be considered on a rolling basis until the position is filled; therefore, we encourage you to apply as early as possible.  If you have any questions please contact Eugenia Alvarez, Office Manager for the Health Justice Alliance Law Clinic, at ea661@georgetown.edu.  

Note: Georgetown Law Center is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer and undertakes special efforts to employ a diverse workforce.

CHICAGO-KENT COLLEGE OF LAW, ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY is now accepting applications for the position of Director of Appellate Advocacy for the 2020-2021 academic year.  The Director’s primary function will be to run Chicago-Kent’s Moot Court Honor Society. Since the founding of the Moot Court Honor Society in 1978, its members have won dozens of national and regional championships and over 100 awards for brief-writing and oral advocacy. Chicago-Kent College of Law's program in appellate advocacy builds on the first-year legal research and writing program, providing students with advanced training and the opportunity to compete in internal and external moot court competitions.  Students are invited to join the Moot Court Honor Society based on their performance in a selection process at the end of their first year of school.

The Director teaches an Appellate Advocacy class in the fall semester for the new Moot Court Honor Society students.  This class focuses on upper-level training in appellate advocacy, both written and oral, and culminates in an in-house competition, the Ilana Diamond Rovner Competition. Students are selected to represent Chicago-Kent in interscholastic competitions based on their performance in the course. With the student Executive Board of the Moot Court Honor Society, the Director selects outside competitions and student team members, functions as a general adviser for the teams, and aids in administering the program. 

In addition to administering the Moot Court Honor Society and teaching the Appellate Advocacy course, the Director of Appellate Advocacy will also be expected to teach at least one other upper-division course each academic year. The selection of this course will depend upon academic needs and the Director’s own interests.

Applicants must have a degree from an accredited law school and a strong academic record.  Excellent written and oral communication skills are essential, and prior practice, clerkship, and appellate experience are highly desirable.  Applicants must possess outstanding interpersonal skills as well.

Chicago-Kent College of Law is an equal opportunity employer.

Please submit a cover letter, a resume, three references, and a writing sample via email to Ms. Patricia O’Neal at poneal@kentlaw.iit.edu. The deadline for applications is March 1, 2020.

Qualified applicants will be contacted for interviews. 

GONZAGA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, Spokane, WA, seeks to hire a lateral tenure-track or tenured faculty member for a new clinic in the area of LGBTQ+ rights, to begin Fall 2020.  Though we are open to all lateral candidates, the ideal applicant will have at least three years of full-time clinical teaching experience in an ABA-accredited law school. The successful applicant will play a major role in determining the clinic’s specific emphasis and operation, though we are particularly interested in candidates committed to broader policy work, including appellate and amicus work.

We seek candidates who are productive and creative scholars, exemplary teachers, and committed and engaged institutional citizens.  The successful candidate will have a demonstrated record in collaborative leadership with multiple stakeholders, and be willing to play a critical role in developing and maintaining an innovative, robust program of experiential education. All candidates must be licensed or immediately license-eligible to practice law in the State of Washington.

We are especially interested in candidates who will contribute to the diversity of Gonzaga Law and the profession.  We encourage applications from the LGBTQ+ community, persons of color, women, persons with disabilities, and other historically underrepresented groups.

For inquiries, contact the Chair of the Faculty Recruitment Committee, Prof. Jason Gillmer, at gillmer@gonzaga.edu or inquire online at humanresources@gonzaga.edu. To apply, please visit our website at https://gonzaga.peopleadmin.com/postings/14027 to submit your cover letter, CV, and references.

For Gonzaga University School of Law’s mission and diversity statements, please visit https://www.gonzaga.edu/school-of-law/about/mission-vision.

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS CLINIC is seeking qualified applicants for a full-time position teaching, training and supervising law students as a Clinical Fellow, appointed with the rank of Lecturer. This position is is expected to begin on August 1, 2020. The appointment is for two years with the possibility of a third year re-appointment. The IHR Clinic works for the promotion of global justice. The IHR Clinic uses international human rights laws and norms as well as other substantive law and strategies to draw attention to human rights violations, develop practical solutions, and promote accountability on the part of state and non-state actors.

In collaboration with partners, IHR Clinic designs and implements projects that advance human rights through adjudication in domestic and international fora and other forms of advocacy including fact-finding and documentation, research, legislation and policy development, and public awareness raising.

The Clinical Fellow will work under the supervision of the Director of the IHR Clinic, and will participate in all aspects of the Clinic, including teaching and design of the clinic curriculum and management of clinic projects. The Clinical Fellow will perform the following duties at the direction of the IHR Clinic Director: supervision of clinic students; development of clinic work-product through research and drafting, editing and revising written work; development of teaching materials and teaching in the clinic; identifying and selecting clients; conducting factual investigations; managing IHR Clinic communications and social media outlets, and organizing and coordinating events, such as conferences and lectures, and other clinic activities. Position will likely require international travel. Candidates must have a J.D. or equivalent international degree and at least two to five years of relevant work experience. Relevant work experience can include experience in international law, international human rights, public law and policy advocacy and public interest law practice. Preferred qualifications include demonstrated interest and/or knowledge in international human rights issues, prior teaching experience, experience in international human rights lawyering, demonstrated skills in research, writing and oral advocacy, ability to work with technology and communications, and organizational and planning skills. Must be a member in good standing of the bar of Illinois or another state. Fluency in English is required, and another language, preferably Spanish, is strongly desired.

Each candidate should submit a cover letter, resume or curriculum vita, a law school transcript, a list of references, and a legal writing sample (not edited by anyone else). Candidates are required to apply online and upload all application material at the University of Chicago academic recruitment site: http://apply.interfolio.com/72260.

Review of completed applications will begin on January 9, 2020, and will continue until the position is filled or until February 29, 2020, whichever is sooner.

We seek a diverse pool of applicants who wish to join an academic community that places the highest value on rigorous inquiry and encourages a diversity of perspectives, experiences, groups of individuals, and ideas to inform and stimulate intellectual challenge, engagement, and exchange.

The University of Chicago is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity/Disabled/Veterans Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, age, status as an individual with a disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or other protected classes under the law. For additional information please see the University's Notice of Nondiscrimination at http://www.uchicago.edu/about/non_discrimination_statement/. Job seekers in need of a reasonable accommodation to complete the application process should call 773-702-0287 or email ACOppAdministrator@uchicago.edu with their request.

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER'S ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & JUSTICE PROJECT (IPR) seeks applications for a Visiting Associate Professor during the 2020-21 academic year. The Environmental Law & Justice Clinic at the Institute for Public Representation (IPR) is a public interest law firm and clinical education program founded at Georgetown Law in 1971. The Clinic gives students the opportunity to engage in complex, cutting-edge litigation before appellate courts and administrative agencies in matters that have a significant impact on issues of broad public importance.

The clinic is a significant time commitment for students (32 hrs./week) for which they receive 12 credits and participate in a weekly seminar taught by the director and fellows.

The Clinic allows students to work as counsel on unique, large-scale projects for groups and individuals who are unable to obtain effective legal representation. Under the supervision of the Clinic’s faculty and teaching fellows, students have prepared comments and petitions for rulemaking to be filed with administrative agencies; drafted briefs and pleadings for use in court or in administrative agency proceedings; and drafted testimony and comments on proposed legislation and proposed agency rules.

The Clinic works in the area of environmental law and has covered a wide range of issues, including air and water pollution, hazardous waste disposal, renewable energy, wildlife protection, resource extraction, food law, and Indian tribal matters. Recent examples include filing an amicus brief on behalf of 24 environmental law professors in the Fifth Circuit arguing that the Endangered Species Act’s protections for endangered intrastate species are valid under the Commerce Clause and litigating a Clean Water Act enforcement suit to compel a coal-fired power plant to comply with pollution limits in its NPDES permit.

Georgetown Law has operated its top-ranked clinical program for more than 50 years. Through this program, students learn the practical art of lawyering while providing quality legal representation to under-represented individuals and organizations.

Candidates should submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and references to Patrick Griffith, Assistant Dean for Clinical Programs, at patrick.griffith@georgetown.edu. Georgetown Law has a strong commitment to diversity among its faculty and encourages applications from women, racial and ethnic minorities, individuals with disabilities, and veterans.

THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE AND THE RULE OF LAW is hiring two Resident Fellows to serve as the faculty of the new IIJ Academic Unit, responsible for developing and delivering the Unit’s practitioner courses. Fellows will work closely with the Academic Unit Director and other Unit and IIJ staff to ensure an overall curriculum that best addresses practitioner needs and fills critical knowledge gaps relevant to the specific challenges of countering terrorism and transnational crime. The Resident Fellows will innovate on approaches and learning methods and collaborate with leading international specialists to create truly world-class learning experiences. The Academic Unit will deliver in-depth courses to criminal justice practitioners aimed at filling critical knowledge gaps necessary for successfully countering terrorism and transnational crime within a rule of law framework. 

For more information on the position and requirements, please see the IIJ website (https://theiij.org/wp-content/uploads/IIJ-AU-Resident-Fellow-Profile-FINAL.pdf). All interested applicants meeting the qualifications listed therein should submit a cover letter and resume/CV to the IIJ Executive Secretariat at bunyanm@theiij.org no later than11 January 2020, including “RF_AU2019” in the subject line.

THE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S HUMAN RIGHTS CLINIC AT GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER is seeking to hire a Graduate Teaching Fellow. This position is a full-time, two-year appointment that will begin in the summer of 2020. The deadline for applications has been extended to December 31, 2019. For more information about the position, including qualifications and application materials, please visit https://www.law.georgetown.edu/experiential-learning/clinics/international-womens-human-rights-clinic/graduate-teaching-fellowships/.

CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW is seeking qualified applicants for the position of Director of Clinical Programs. This position is tenured or tenure eligible.  Creighton University is a Jesuit university, and as such is committed to the training of students in service to others, and recognizes the importance of family life, the inalienable worth of each individual and values ethnic and cultural diversity as core values. In keeping with Creighton’s Ignatian tradition of inclusivity and compassion, we seek a caring, hospitable environment for everyone, regardless of age, culture, faith, ethnicity, immigrant status, race, gender, sexual orientation, language, physical appearance, physical ability or social class.

Interviews begin by January 20, 2020.

For full details, and to make an application, go to:

https://creighton.referrals.selectminds.com/jobs/law-professor-director-of-clinical-programs-tenure-or-tenure-eligible-track-1441