Tenure-Track Position: Clinical Professor of Law to be associated with the
Community & Economic Development Clinic at Yale Law School

Basic Description
Yale Law School invites applications for a clinical professor of law to work in its Community and Economic Development (CED) Clinic. The professorship will be a tenure-track position with the potential of clinical tenure.

Nature of Position
The CED Clinic offers students the opportunity to engage in meaningful economic development initiatives and transactional lawyering experiences across a range of practice areas under close faculty supervision. The clinic has been interdisciplinary in nature, bringing together students from the law, business, architecture, forestry, and divinity schools at Yale. Students represent community organizations, coalitions, nonprofits, community financial institutions, local government, and small businesses. They work in regulatory, transactional, business and strategic capacities. Projects often involve legislative advocacy and policy research and development and may expose
students to: formation and governance of for-profit and not-for-profit entities; strategic planning and decision-making, negotiating and drafting contracts; developing employment and other policies; structuring real estate transactions; assessing the financial feasibility of proposed projects; securing funding from federal, state, local, and private sources; and resolving zoning and environmental issues. Current projects include efforts to promote community banking in New Haven, to combat foreclosure, and to encourage real estate development on behalf of community development corporations. The clinical professor will oversee development of clinic transactional projects, provide direct supervision of students in the clinic, work with other supervising attorneys in the clinic, and teach a seminar accompanying the clinical fieldwork.

Basic Requirements
Applicants should have significant experience in transactional legal work. This may include experience in some or all of the following: real estate development; entity formation; and banking law. Candidates must be prepared to apply for admission to the Connecticut bar. Applicants should have outstanding legal writing skills, high ethical standards, sound judgment, and the ability to motivate and train law students and promote teamwork.

Additional Requirements
Highly desirable attributes that the appointments committee will consider
include:
(1) Prior law school teaching experience.
(2) A track record of previous publications in community economic development law and practice, and a demonstrated commitment to scholarship.

Interested candidates should send a cover letter and c.v. to Beth Barnes at beth.barnes@yale.edu