GEORGETOWN LAW seeks applications for a tenured or tenure-track faculty position to direct a new human rights clinic beginning in the 2025-2026 academic year.

We welcome candidates who can propose the specific areas of focus for the new human rights clinic with a particular emphasis on teaching the skills of client-centered practice. We are open to a wide range of human rights subjects, but we are particularly interested in the following discrete and intersecting areas of international human rights law and its domestic application: (1) women’s human rights, including reproductive justice, (2) business and human rights, (3) economic, social, and cultural human rights, especially those that further the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, and (4) strategies to support and defend the rights of human rights defenders. Finally, given Georgetown Law’s home in Washington, D.C., we are interested in a vision for the clinic that leverages that strategic location through human rights advocacy on Capitol Hill and/or before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

The appointments committee is particularly interested in candidates with prior full-time clinical teaching experience and prior human rights law experience in the relevant practice areas. Georgetown Law has a unitary tenure track. Candidates must demonstrate a record of strong academic performance and either an excellent scholarly record (if a lateral candidate) or excellent potential for scholarly achievement (if an entry-level candidate). All candidates must hold a J.D. prior to the start date.

Georgetown Law has operated its top-ranked in-house 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. We offer 17 different clinics and more than 300 law students participate in our clinics every year. Georgetown is also a leading center for international law and practice, with faculty, centers, and institutes dedicated to a wide variety of areas including human rights, humanitarian law, international economic law, and refugee and migrant protection.

Candidates should submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, references, a one-to-two page clinic proposal, and a scholarly agenda through our faculty search portal. The clinic proposal should address in appropriate detail the candidate’s vision for the clinic, the clients to be represented, the range of matters to be handled, their pedagogy, and the clinic’s student learning objectives.

The projected salary for this position is $190,000 - $250,000, which represents the full range of anticipated compensation for this position. Compensation is determined by a number of factors including, but not limited to, the candidate’s individual qualifications, experience, education, skills, and certifications, as well as the University’s business needs and external factors.