The University of Wisconsin Law School is hiring a clinical assistant/associate professor to supervise the work of clinical students in the Wisconsin Innocence Project and provide classroom instruction in conjunction with the WIP clinic.

As you may know, WIP was one of the first and is among the largest and most successful innocence organizations in the nation. WIP was created in 1998 and was one of the founding projects of the Innocence Network. WIP is one of the University of Wisconsin Law School’s seventeen legal clinics, nine of which are offered through the Law School's Remington Center, which has been providing clinical legal educational opportunities since the 1960s.

In WIP, law students receive an unusually deep immersion experience in the criminal justice system as they work in the project for a full calendar year, starting in the summer and continuing in the fall and spring semesters. This level of commitment provides not only a rich learning environment, but also a unique opportunity for effective client service and case work in the large cases (both DNA and non-DNA) that comprise the project's caseload.

This is an appointment for someone with a commitment to and the potential to engage in teaching, litigation, policy reform and scholarly inquiry into the criminal justice system and, in particular, wrongful convictions.

The deadline for applications is Dec. 3, 2015, with an anticipated start date of August 1, 2016. The job posting is here: : http://www.ohr.wisc.edu/Weblisting/External/PVLSummary.aspx?pvl_num=84657