WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW invites applications for the faculty position of Assistant Director of its longstanding Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic. The Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic is one of 18 law clinics and externships offered by the law school (https://law.wustl.edu/academics/clinical-education-program/interdisciplinary-environmental-clinic/). The position starts by June 1, 2019, in preparation for fall classes. This position is grant funded.

The Clinic represents non-profit organizations, community groups, and individuals pursuing legal action and other forms of advocacy to protect the environment and community health. Its unique interdisciplinary focus enables it to provide both legal and technical assistance to clients through law students and undergraduate and graduate non-law students from other university schools.

Students work in interdisciplinary teams, overseen by the director or the assistant director in combination with the Clinic’s science faculty, on issues such as air and water pollution, solid and hazardous waste, energy regulation, and environmental justice.

The assistant director will assist the director in overseeing all aspects of the Clinic, including the teaching and grading of students (through one-on-one tutorials and a weekly seminar), supervision of and responsibility for student casework, identification and selection of clients and matters, grant writing and administration, and day-to-day program administration. The assistant director will have primary supervisory responsibility for approximately half of the Clinic’s cases.

Qualifications

Candidates must be eligible to practice law in Missouri (i.e., must be a member of the Missouri bar, eligible for admission without examination pursuant to Missouri Supreme Court Rule 8.10, or eligible for admission as a law teacher without examination pursuant to Missouri Supreme Court Rule 13.06). Candidates should have litigation experience, outstanding legal research and writing skills, and promise as a teacher and mentor for law students.

Application Process

Applicants must complete an online application by navigating to https://jobs.wustl.edu/ and searching for job opening number 43482. In addition to completing the online application, applicants should submit a resume, law school transcript, references, and brief description of the candidate’s interest and qualifications to: Elizabeth Hubertz, Washington University School of Law, One Brookings Drive, Campus Box 1120, St. Louis, MO 63130-4899; ejhubertz@wustl.edu.

EOE Statement

Washington University is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, genetic information, disability, or protected veteran status.

LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO SCHOOL OF LAW is seeking to hire a Health Justice Project Clinical Teaching Fellow for a 2-year term for it's Health Justice Project ("HJP") housed at the Beazley Institute for Health Law and Policy.

The Health Justice Project is medical-legal partnership (“MLP”) clinic housed in the Beazley Institute for Health Law and Policy at Loyola University Chicago School of Law.

The HJP partners Erie Family Health Centers (a large federally qualified health center), and LAF (the largest provider of free civil legal services to people in poverty in cook county). Students enrolled in the clinic engage in direct client representation and policy advocacy to address the health harming legal needs of Erie patients and other vulnerable Chicagoans.

The fellow and clinic director work as colleagues, sharing responsibilities for designing and teaching classes; administering the clinic; supervising research assistants, Americorps VISTA volunteers, and law students. The fellowship is designed to provide leadership development, experience collaborating on an interprofessional team, clinical teaching training, and career growth for public interest leaders.

The fellowship is particularly well-suited to lawyers who are seeking a career in clinical law teaching or social justice advocacy. The ideal applicant has experience in an MLP or other law school clinic setting, is barred in Illinois by the start date (or bar eligible) and has experience in one or more of the case subject matters, including public benefits, disability, housing, advance care planning, immigration, guardianship, family law, among others. The Fellowship is for a term of two years with potential for an extension for a third year.

For more information and to apply, please see: https://www.careers.luc.edu/postings/10611 ​

CHICAGO-KENT COLLEGE OF LAW OF THE ILLINIOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY’S C-K LAW GROUP is accepting applications for a full-time in-house clinical faculty member from attorneys who are immigration practitioners. The attorney hired for the position will supervise student interns on their case work and teach them related lawyering skills. The student interns will work on cases generated by the attorney who will be expected to generate a significant number of fee-generating cases.

The attorney’s salary is negotiable and is based on experience but will be primarily determined by the amount of fees the attorney is able to generate from the clients he or she represents. The position carries full University benefits including medical, group life insurance, retirement, etc. The attorney is also eligible for bonuses if the attorney generates legal fees in excess of his or her salary within a contract year.

Preference will be given to candidates who have been admitted to the Illinois Bar for a minimum of five (5) years, have a strong background in immigration practice, and have experience related to educating law students in the practice of law. The C-K Law Group offers an excellent opportunity for talented attorneys wishing to teach and practice in a unique in-house clinical education setting.  Applicants should have strong academic credentials and have an abiding interest in supervising law students on their clinical assignments.

Illinois Institute of Technology is an EEO/AA/Title VI/Title IX/Section 504/ADA/ADEA employer committed to enhancing equity, inclusion and diversity within its community. It actively seeks applications from all individuals regardless of race, color, sex, marital status, religion, creed, national origin, disability, age, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, and/or gender identity and expression. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment.

 Open Date: March 2019. This position will remain open until filled.

Please contact and send resumes to:

Professor Richard J. Gonzalez

Director of Clinical Education

Chicago-Kent College of Law

565 W. Adams Street, Suite 600

Chicago, IL 60661-3691

 Please contact Richard Gonzalez if interested at Rgonzale@kentlaw.edu or (312) 906-5079

TULANE LAW SCHOOL seeks to hire one or more full-time Clinical Instructors in its Environmental Law Clinic (TELC). Founded in 1989, the TELC is among the first wave of environmental law clinics in the country and remains one of the largest. Since its inception, TELC has provided free legal representation and community outreach on environmental and public access issues to hundreds of low-income individuals, community groups and environmental groups in Louisiana, including disproportionately impacted low-income, minority fenceline communities along the Mississippi River industrial corridor. For more on TELC, see our webpage at http://www.tulane.edu/~telc/.

The Clinical Instructor will educate law students engaged in the representation of clinic clients before agencies and courts in environmental and public access matters.

The position has year-round case management responsibilities, with no teaching obligations in the summer.

Basic Qualifications:

• A J.D. from an ABA-accredited Law School, where s/he excelled academically
• Three years of relevant experience
• Louisiana bar membership or ability to sit for the Louisiana Bar
• An interest in clinical education
• An ability to work with and take direction from the TELC Director
• An ability to serve as a role model for law students in terms of ethics, writing, oral advocacy, and commitment to excellence.

Additional Qualifications:

The ideal candidate for this position has three or more years of proven litigation and environmental law experience as well as superior research and writing skills. Teaching and supervision experience are preferred. The ability to work sensitively with a diverse population of clients and students is essential.

This position is a non-tenure track faculty appointment as a Clinical Instructor to a two-year contract, which may be renewed for additional two or five year terms. The preferred start date is no later than July 1, 2019.

Tulane Law School is committed to faculty diversity and welcomes expressions of interest from diverse applicants.

To learn more about the law school, visit our website at https://law.tulane.edu/ 

Application Instructions:

All applications must include a cover letter, résumé/CV, a list of at least three references (letters are preferred, but names and current e-mail and/or telephone contact information are acceptable), a law school transcript (unofficial copy is fine), and a legal writing sample. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled; however, candidates are strongly encouraged to apply by Friday, April 5, 2019. Applicants will be interviewed on a rolling basis, and may be called for a preliminary round of Skype interviews, possibly followed by an on-campus, call back interview. If you have any questions please contact Lisa Jordan, Director of the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic, at lwjordan@tulane.edu.

Applications are accepted exclusively through Interfolio at the following link: http://apply.interfolio.com/61312.  

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW invites applications for the faculty position of Director of its new First Amendment Clinic. The Clinic will join the other 18 law clinics and externships offered by the law school (see https://law.wustl.edu/academics/clinical-education-program/). The new director will assume the position in summer 2019 in preparation for fall classes.

The Clinic, through its second- and third-year law students, will provide legal assistance for organizations, journalists, students, and citizens defending and advancing issues of freedom of speech, press, and assembly.

The director will oversee all aspects of the Clinic, including the teaching of students (through one-on-one tutorials and a weekly seminar), supervision of and responsibility for student casework, identification and selection of clients, and day-to-day administration of the Clinic. The director will also teach non-clinic courses and assist other law school programs.

Candidates must be eligible to practice law in Missouri (i.e., must be a member of the Missouri bar or eligible for admission on motion or as a law teacher without examination pursuant to Missouri Supreme Court Rules 8.10 and 13.06). Candidates should have practice experience in litigation, outstanding legal research and writing skills, and promise as a teacher and mentor for law students.

Applicants must complete an online application by navigating to https://jobs.wustl.edu/ and searching for job opening number 43174.

In addition to completing the online application, applicants should submit a resume, law school transcript, references, and brief description of the candidate’s interest and qualifications to: Professor Robert Kuehn, Associate Dean for Clinical Education, Washington University School of Law, One Brookings Drive, Campus Box 1120, St. Louis, MO 63130-4899; rkuehn@wustl.edu.

LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY'S  THE PAUL M. HEBERT LAW CENTER The Paul M. Hebert Law Center seeks a visiting professor to teach the Immigration Law Clinic for the 2019-2020 academic year. The Immigration Law Clinic is a 5 credit, one semester clinic of 6 to 8 students who represent non-citizens in their defensive proceedings before the Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR) and affirmative applications with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).

Interested applicants should hold a J.D. degree from an ABA accredited law school, be admitted and in good standing in a United States jurisdiction (state or District of Columbia), and have extensive experience representing clients in Immigration proceedings. Applicants with prior clinical teaching experience are strongly preferred.

LSU is an Equal Opportunity/Equal Access Employer and is committed to building a culturally diverse faculty. We particularly welcome and encourage applications from female and minority candidates.

Letters of interest and CV’s, along with questions, can be directed to Robert Lancaster, Director of Clinical Legal Education, at rlancast@lsu.edu.

TOURO COLLEGE invites inquiries, nominations and applications for the position of Dean and Professor of Law for the Jacob D. Fuchsberg Touro Law Center, located in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York.

Touro Law Center is part of the Touro College and University System, a system of non-profit institutions of higher and professional education. Touro College is an independent institution of higher education under Jewish auspices, established in 1970 to transmit and perpetuate the Jewish heritage, as well as to serve the general community in keeping with the historic Jewish commitment to intellectual inquiry, the transmission of knowledge, social justice, and service to society. Approximately 18,000 students are currently enrolled in its various schools and divisions. Consistent with the College’s mission, Touro Law Center provides a diverse student body a rigorous, innovative, and immersive path towards becoming practice-ready professionals committed to promoting social justice and serving the needs of their clients and communities with compassion and integrity. Touro Law Center has approximately 486 students and loyal and committed worldwide alumni network of 6,500. Touro Law Center is one of two law schools on Long Island, an area of almost three million people, within a one hour drive to New York City.

Touro Law Center was selected for a leadership role in New York State’s Justice for All program. Touro Law Center is the only law school in the region that has partnered with the courts, legal services corporations, and the local bar association to create the nationally recognized Community Legal Help Project which serves residents of Suffolk County in their neighborhoods, residents who would not otherwise have access to legal assistance. Touro Law Center faculty and students are in the community and are contributing significantly to help close the justice gap.

Touro Law Center seeks its sixth dean who is a visionary and decisive leader to build on the school’s history of excellence and innovation in legal education. The next dean will have the exciting opportunity and responsibility for overseeing a planned campus expansion including the Law Center's new student housing and Clinic/Public Advocacy buildings as well as welcoming the Touro College Schools of Health Sciences and Graduate Education to the Central Islip campus in the fall of 2020. This initiative includes not only the capital construction, but opportunities to build innovative and meaningful inter-disciplinary educational programs, research initiatives, and community outreach, as well as actively co-leading a “Campaign for the Future” with the dean of Touro’s School of Health Sciences. In addition, the next dean will continue the Law Center’s commitment to student-centered education including assessment throughout the curriculum and the program of legal education.

The new Dean will engage effectively with all Touro Law Center's stakeholders, including faculty, alumni, students, staff, community partners and donors. The Dean must possess the academic and professional credentials to engender respect from the academy, the state university system and the community at large. The new Dean must understand the challenges of modern legal education and locate new opportunities for educational innovation while also developing the Law Center's unique strengths. The Law Center’s recently launched Flex-JD program, and commitment to post-JD education in the area of aging and longevity are two such examples. Touro Law Center's experienced and dedicated faculty members are eager to work with a leader who is energetic, creative, supportive, and able to inspire the Law Center's diverse and eclectic community.

The successful candidate will, at minimum, possess a J.D. degree or its equivalent and will have an outstanding record of accomplishment in the legal academy and/or in the practice of law that warrants appointment as a tenured Professor of Law. In addition to a record of academic and professional accomplishment, the successful candidate will have demonstrated a commitment to service to the legal profession and the public, and will offer a proven record in fundraising as well as in management or administration suitable for appointment as Dean. Ideally, the Dean will display both a successful record as a faculty member and evidence of leadership experience in higher education. The successful candidate will have the academic and professional experience that will enhance the reputation of the Law Center and enjoy the support of the faculty, students, alumni and members of the bar and the bench.

The Search Committee invites letters of nomination, expressions of interest, or applications and they may be sent to Werner Boel, LL.M., Sheila Murphy and Veena Abraham J.D. the Witt/Kieffer consultants assisting Touro Law Center with this search, at TouroLawDean@wittkieffer.com. Electronic submissions are strongly encouraged. A complete application will include a letter of interest, a curriculum vitae, and contact information for five professional references. This search will be conducted with respect for the confidentiality of candidates; references will not be contacted without prior knowledge and approval of the candidate. Review of materials will begin immediately and continue until an appointment is made. To ensure full consideration, please submit your application before April 8, 2019. Applications received after this date may be considered at the discretion of the Search Committee. The dean is expected to join the Touro community in the summer of 2019.

Touro College and University System is committed to providing all persons equal opportunity in education and employment, and to ensuring a safe and non-discriminatory educational and work environment in compliance with Title IX of the Higher Education Amendments of 1972 (“Title IX”), Title VI and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Violence Against Women Act (“VAWA”), the New York State Education Law, and other applicable laws. It is the policy of the College to prohibit unlawful discrimination in employment and in the administration of College programs, services, activities, and admissions on the basis of race, religion, sex, color, national or ethnic origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender, pregnancy, veteran status, or any other status protected by law.

BERKELEY LAW is hiring a full-time, year-round, non-tenure track Clinical Supervising Attorney for its Death Penalty Clinic.

The Berkeley Law Death Penalty Clinic:           

The Berkeley Law Death Penalty Clinic is one of the few clinics nationwide engaged in the defense of indigent clients facing the death penalty.  Under the direct supervision of clinical faculty, clinic students learn first-hand the responsibility and skills required to defend individuals in capital cases.  Students gather life history documents, conduct fact investigation, interview witnesses, and collaborate with experienced capital investigators and a variety of forensic experts.  They research and draft legal pleadings, and assist in hearings and trials in courts ranging from state trial courts to the United States Supreme Court and in jurisdictions as diverse as Alabama, California, Georgia, Texas, and Virginia.

Students are enrolled in the Death Penalty Clinic for the entire academic year.  They also take a required companion seminar taught by the Clinic faculty.  More information on the Death Penalty Clinic can be found here: www.deathpenaltyclinic.org.

Job Description for Clinical Supervising Attorney:

The role of Clinical Supervising Attorney is a full-time, year-round, non-tenure track position.  The individual hired will operate with substantial autonomy, and as part of an interactive team of Death Penalty Clinic faculty that often co-supervises projects.  The ideal candidate will have both a strong track record of conducting legal work with minimal supervision, and an equally strong desire to teach, work with, and mentor students in a highly collaborative environment.  This position requires significant capital defense experience and professional networks, the cultural competence to work in partnership with affected individuals and communities, and the ability to work independently. The majority of the Clinical Supervising Attorney’s docket will be capital cases in which the Clinic partners with lawyers and non-profits, such as the Southern Center for Human Rights, the Georgia Capital Defender Office, and the Texas Defender Service, among others.  Prior experience in clinical teaching or law student supervision is required.

The Clinical Supervising Attorney will work under the day-to-day supervision of the Clinic faculty (the Director and Associate Director), and may partner with clinical faculty in supervising student work on cases and projects.  During the summer, when students are not enrolled in the Clinic, the Clinical Supervising Attorney will continue to maintain and advance the Clinic’s docket, and, if necessary, develop new projects and cases for the upcoming year.

The Clinical Supervising Attorney will also assist in teaching the Clinic’s companion seminar, including teaching one or two class sessions each semester; helping student prepare for case rounds presentations; and providing feedback and critique to students on their performance in case rounds.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Clinical Supervision and Advocacy (80%)

• Intensive training and supervision of six to eight clinic students per semester;
• Assist in litigating capital cases, mostly in the South, at trial, on appeal and/or in post-conviction (state and federal);
• Develop Clinic projects, including vetting new Clinic cases and negotiating co-counsel agreements with outside counsel;
• Draft petitions, motions, briefs, and other pleadings; conduct appellate oral arguments and trial–level hearings in state and federal court;
• Travel to wherever the Clinic’s cases are being litigated, often with students, to visit clients, conduct investigation, participate in court proceedings, and meet with co-counsel
• Assist clinic faculty in managing the Clinic docket throughout the year;
• Assist in designing/ teaching select components of the Clinic seminar;
• Work with other clinical faculty and clinical fellows to improve the clinical curriculum; and
• Assist in developing and maintaining relationships with clients and co-counsel.

Administrative Duties(15%):

• Assist in organizing programmatic events, such as conferences, workshops and speaker series;
• Participate in professional development, training, and networking activities;
• Assist in promoting the Clinic to students and other constituencies, and organizing Clinic-related events; and
• Supervise volunteers as needed.

Other Duties as Assigned (5%)

Minimum Qualifications (at time of application):

• J.D.

Additional Qualifications (by start date):

• Admission to practice law in at least one state (California bar not required);
• At least one year of experience in clinical teaching or law student supervision; and
• Ability to travel multiple times a year.

Preferred Qualifications:

• At least five years of criminal defense experience, including at least three years of capital defense experience;
• Experience investigating or supervising the investigation of capital cases at the trial or post-conviction level;
• Experience defending capital cases in the South;
• Career intention to practice in public interest, public sector, or clinical setting;
• Excellent legal research and writing skills;
• Ability to work well under pressure, both independently and as part of a team; and
• Substantive knowledge in the areas of capital punishment, evidence, and criminal procedure. 

Salary and Benefits: 

The salary range is $87,505-$101,477, depending on experience. The University offers excellent health and retirement benefits which can be viewed online at http://atyourservice.ucop.edu/.

Application Procedure:

Please visit the following link to apply: https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF02081.  Applicants must provide in AP Recruit the names and contact information for three (3) references.  The position is open until filled. 

Letters of reference and copies of scholarly transcripts may be requested of top candidates. All letters will be treated as confidential per University of California policy and California state law. Please refer potential referees, including when letters are provided via a dossier service or career center, to the UC Berkeley statement of confidentiality (http://apo.berkeley.edu/evalltr.html) prior to submitting their letters. 

For more information about the Death Penalty Clinic, visit our website at: www.deathpenaltyclinic.org

If you have questions about the position, please contact academicpositions-law@berkeley.edu.

LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO SCHOOL OF LAW is hiring a Co-Director/Center Executive Director to work collaboratively with the Business Law Clinic Co-Director and the Director of the Business Law Center to provide strategic leadership, teach the Clinic class, supervise student work with clients, and to assist the Center Director in the development of the business and transactional law curriculum, scholarly conferences and programming. The Co-Director/Executive Director will serve as the Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Clinical Professor of Law that is a presumptively renewable long-term contract position with voting privileges.

The Business Law Clinic (Clinic) is part of a comprehensive curriculum in transactional law that is comprised of the Clinic, the Business Law Center (Center) and certificate and degree conferring programs. The Clinic, established in 1999, offers students a unique opportunity to develop essential lawyering skills in a professional, interactive environment.

Applications will be reviewed beginning on March 1st and until the position is filled.

Further details can be found here: https://www.careers.luc.edu/postings/10391    

LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO SCHOOL OF LAW is seeking applications for the Salisbury Clinical Fellowship in Child and Family Law. Loyola’s ChildLaw program is offering this two-year Fellowship, to commence in July of 2019. The Fellowship will provide a unique opportunity for a recent law school graduate to gain experience in both clinical law teaching and litigation in the field of child law. The Clinical Fellow will work closely with the ChildLaw Clinic Faculty, assisting in the representation of clients, the supervision of students, and the development of course curriculum.

The Salisbury Fellow will share responsibility with the Clinic Director and Associate Director for the ChildLaw Clinic. The Clinic affords representation to child clients, primarily in the areas of child protection and child custody. The Fellow will assist with the supervision of law students in their representation of clinic clients. The Fellow will be expected to assist with all levels of client representation, including pre-trial, trial and appellate proceedings. The Fellow will also participate in the development of the course curriculum and the teaching of a weekly seminar, focused on ethical and substantive issues arising in the representation of child clients, skills training, and the discussion of current clinic cases. The Fellow will be encouraged to develop independent areas of interest, consistent with the mission of the ChildLaw Clinic.

Criteria for Selection: Priority will be given to recent law school graduates who have a demonstrated interest in the field of child and family law and an interest in pursuing a career in clinical law teaching. Candidates with at least two years of practice experience are preferred. Admission or eligibility for admission to the Illinois bar by July 1, 2019, is required. (Out-of-state applicants should review Illinois Supreme Court Rule 717 for special admission criteria applicable to legal service program lawyers.)

Selection Process: Review of applications will begin March 1, 2019 and continue until the position is filled. The position will begin on July 1, 2017. Applicants are asked to submit (1) a letter of interest describing the candidate’s reasons for applying for the fellowship, (2) a curriculum vitae, (3) a sample of scholarly or other written work, (4) a law school transcript, (5) two letters of recommendation, and (6) the names and contact information of  individuals prepared to provide professional references. Applications should be submitted through Loyola’s Careers website at http://www.careers.luc.edu/postings/10197. Inquiries should be directed to Professor Bruce A. Boyer, Director of the Civitas ChildLaw Clinic, Loyola University Chicago, 25 E. Pearson St., 11th Floor, Chicago, IL, 60611, bboyer@luc.edu.

Loyola is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer with a strong commitment to hiring for our mission and diversifying our faculty. Applications from women and minority candidates are especially encouraged. As a Jesuit Catholic institution of higher education, we seek candidates who will contribute to our mission and strategic plan to deliver a Transformative Education in the Jesuit tradition. Candidates are encouraged to consult our website to gain a clearer understanding of Loyola's mission at www.luc.edu/mission/index.shtml and our focus on transformative education at www.luc.edu/transformativeed/.