UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, LAS VEGAS WILLIAM S. BOYD SCHOOL OF LAW invites applications for one or more tenure-track or tenured faculty positions beginning in the 2013-2014 academic year.  We seek candidates with excellent academic records and experience and who have a strong commitment to scholarship and teaching. 

We have a particular need for a clinical faculty member to join our outstanding clinical program.  The Thomas & Mack Legal Clinic is collaborative and aims to provide an integrated academic and practice-based educational experience to students, provide service to communities in need of legal assistance, and promote research and policy related to the intersection of law and society.  The Thomas & Mack Clinic has programs in six different areas: Appellate, Education Advocacy, Family Justice, Immigration, Innocence, and Juvenile Justice. 

We invite applications from dynamic scholar-clinicians who would complement our current clinical programs, or who would be able to develop new clinical offerings. We have a particular interest in expanding our clinical offerings to include a transactional, consumer law or community development clinic.

The William S. Boyd School of Law has an integrated tenure track in which faculty who teach in the clinic share equal status with other faculty.  Clinical faculty also teach non-clinical courses; receive generous support for summer research and student research assistants; and are eligible to apply for semester-long research leaves every third year.  The clinical program and law school are the beneficiaries of an active and engaged legal community, who look to the law school for leadership and partnership in addressing the community’s legal and policy needs.   

Candidates must have earned a JD from an ABA-accredited law school or an equivalent degree.  Applicants for Full Professor must have records of substantial accomplishment and qualifications sufficient to be awarded tenure.  Salary will be competitive, based on experience.  The Appointments Committee will begin reviewing applications immediately.

The Boyd School of Law is now building on its record of success during its first decade as the public law school of Nevada.  We have a diverse faculty of new and experienced legal educators drawn from top institutions, and we seek colleagues who share our enthusiasm for legal scholarship and education.  The Boyd School of Law has 477 students enrolled (347 full-time, 130 part-time) and 44 full-time faculty, and enjoys state-of-the-art facilities at the center of the UNLV campus.  For more information on the Boyd School of Law, please refer to our website at http://www.law.unlv.edu/.

UNLV is a premier metropolitan research university with 27,000 students and more than 1000 full-time faculty.  With more than 120 graduate programs, including 38 doctoral and professional programs, UNLV is Nevada’s largest comprehensive doctoral degree granting institution.  It provides traditional and professional academic programs for a diverse student body and encourages innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to teaching, learning, and scholarship. For more information on the University, please refer to the UNLV website at http://www.unlv.edu.  Las Vegas is a diverse and entrepreneurial city that boasts unparalleled access to world-class restaurants and entertainment, all within a short drive to some of the nation’s premier outdoor attractions.

Applicants should submit a letter of interest, along with a detailed resume, three professional references, and off-prints of your published works.

 

Contact:  Professor Ruben J. Garcia, Chair, Appointments Committee, UNLV, William S. Boyd School of Law, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway, Box 451003, Las Vegas, NV  89154-1003, or ruben.garcia@unlv.edu.

 

UNLV is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity educator and employer committed to excellence through diversity.

DREXEL UNIVERSITY EARLE MACK SCHOOL of LAW seeks an experienced faculty member to help establish and direct a new Community Lawyering Clinic and to teach other appropriate courses in light of curricular needs.  The position will be tenured or tenure-track and will begin in the 2013-2014 academic year.  We invite applications from candidates who have a distinguished academic background, a record of or the promise of both teaching excellence and scholarly distinction, and a commitment to service in the law school and the community.

The clinic will aim at providing some combination of direct legal services and other forms of advocacy to historically underserved communities in Philadelphia.

Applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible to receive full consideration.  In keeping with its commitment to a diverse faculty, the School of Law welcomes applications from all qualified candidates and encourages women and minorities to apply.  Contact (e-mail preferred):  Susan L. Brooks, 3320 Market Street, Suite 410, Philadelphia, PA 19104, or susan.brooks@drexel.edu.

The University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law invites nominations and applications for a tenure track Associate or Full Professor / Director of its developing Center for Health Law.  Applicants are expected to hold a J.D.; have demonstrated experience in teaching health law or related subjects; and have a clearly established record of scholarship in the field.  The Law School encourages expressions of interest from applicants who have established, or are establishing, national reputations as teachers and scholars in the field and who are interested in promoting the Law School’s Center for Health Law.

The Director’s responsibilities will include strategic planning, fundraising, curriculum development, maintenance and growth of relationships with relevant local, national, and international scholarly and professional associations, scholarship production, teaching, and mentoring.

The Law School seeks to expand its health-law curriculum and related health-law opportunities for the purpose of assuming the leading role in the MidSouth in training health-care lawyers, promoting scholarship and discussion concerning health-care law and policy, and providing pro bono health care-related legal services to low-income individuals.  This initiative is aligned with the University’s increasing emphasis on health-related education, demonstrated, inter alia, by the recent founding of the School of Public Health and a significant expansion of the School of Nursing.

 Health care isundefinedand will continue to beundefinedparticularly important to the Memphis region because of the concentration of hospitals and clinics, medical device industries, biotechnical enterprises, pharmaceutical companies, insurers, medical teaching schools, universities, courts, and law firms.  Every aspect of the health care research, teaching, and delivery system is present in abundance in Memphis.  The Law School’s creation of a Center for Health Law has broad and strong support. 

The Law School celebrates its 50th anniversary in its new building, the newly restored U.S. Customs House in downtown Memphis.  A $48 million project, the structure offers a magnificent setting for learning and teaching and striking views of the Mississippi River.  We look forward to bolstering our current outstanding faculty with a talented professor committed to excellence in both scholarship and teaching.

Memphis is a beautiful and diverse city with low real estate prices and an excellent quality of life. The city is known for its friendly atmosphere, revitalized downtown, and attractions such as Graceland, Beale Street, Opera Memphis, Memphis Symphony Orchestra, Memphis Zoo, NBA Grizzlies, Memphis Tigers basketball team, National Civil Rights Museum, and nationally recognized theatre companies.

Salary will be commensurate with experience and qualifications, and the University offers an attractive benefits package.  Candidates are invited to discuss salary with the Hiring Committee Chair (below).  The School has a strong institutional commitment to the diversity of its faculty and is particularly interested in receiving expressions of interest from persons who will add to its diversity.  Review of applications will begin in early fall and will continue until the position is filled. 

Please submit applications to https://workforum.memphis.edu.  E-mail nominations to smulroy@memphis.edu with “Health Law Director” in the subject heading.  Nominations also may be submitted by mail to:  Professor Steven Mulroy, Chair, Health Law Hiring Committee, University of Memphis School of Law, 1 N. Front Street, Memphis, TN 38103.  Nominations should include complete contact information for nominees.

The University of Memphis is an EEO/AA employer.

Northwestern University School of Law invites applications for a clinical fellow position beginning in mid-August 2012 in the Bluhm Legal Clinic’s Children and Family Justice Center.  The Fellow will represent youth in juvenile prison at their parole revocation hearings and participate in post dispositional policy reform and advocacy.  Applicants should send letters of interest and resumes to Julie Biehl, Director, Children and Family Justice Center (j-biehl@law.northwestern.edu).  The deadline for applications is July 16, 2012 and it is anticipated that the fellowship will begin in mid-August 2012 and end December 31, 2013.  Salary and benefits will be competitive.
 
 
The Bluhm Legal Clinic currently includes clinical faculty teaching in its Children and Family Justice Center, The Center on Wrongful Convictions, The Center on International Human Rights, the Entrepreneurship Law Center, Roderick MacArthur Justice Center, the Environmental Law Clinic and other clinical programs that include appellate advocacy, criminal defense, civil litigation (predatory lending cases, civil suits arising from wrongful convictions, an landlord tenant cases), externship, negotiations and trial advocacy.
 
Northwestern University School of Law is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer and encourages nominations of and applications from women and minority candidates.

Duties & Responsibilities:  The Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School is seeking a Fellow to work as part of the Center’s Food Law and Policy Division. Reporting to the Director of the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation’s Food Law and Policy Division, the Fellow will work independently and with the Director, staff and students on a broad range of federal, state, and local policy projects aiming to increase access to nutritious food for poor and low-income individuals and families, reduce diet-related diseases, and maximize small farmers’ access to food markets. Among others, projects include assisting with the development and research needs of state and local food policy councils; assessing food safety rules to inform law and policy changes that would increase economic opportunities for small local producers; analyzing and recommending ways to increase access to healthy produce for low-income individuals and those living in “food deserts;” and identifying and breaking down legal and non-legal barriers inhibiting small producers from going beyond direct farm-to-consumer sales to sell at grocery stores, restaurants, and farm to institution programs. The clinic’s work is primarily focused at the state and local level with some national level policy work, and we work with clients and partners located in different parts of the country.
 
The Fellow’s work will focus broadly on initiatives that will increase access to nutritious food for poor and low-income individuals and families and work to forge at better food system that is more accessible to small producers and fosters improved environmental and health outcomes. The Fellow will work with staff and students to inform cutting-edge policy recommendations at the state and national levels in both the legislative and regulatory arenas. The Fellow will also conduct regular outreach and training for state and national government officials and community groups.
 
Qualifications: JD required. Ability to work independently, as well as in teams, and in demanding and periodically high stress circumstances. Outstanding oral and written communication and organizational skills required, as well as demonstrated ability to work creatively within broad program goals.  Candidate should exhibit strong motivation to learn and achieve superior professional practice and mentoring skills. Relevant food law and policy experience preferred.
 
Additional Information:  The Food Law and Policy Division of the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation was established in 2010 to link Harvard Law students with opportunities to work with clients and communities on various food law and policy issues. The Clinic aims to increase access to healthy foods, prevent diet-related diseases such as obesity and type 2 diabetes, and assist small farmers and producers in participating in food markets. The Food Law and Policy Clinic has focused much of its work in the Delta region, with projects underway in Mississippi, Arkansas, and Tennessee; however, starting in fall 2011 the Clinic began to replicate its work in other regions and communities, using its expertise in food law and policy to build similar federal, state, and local advocacy infrastructure around access to food and assisting small producers. The Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation (formerly the Health Law & Policy Clinic) has long been a leading health care access law and policy research and advocacy program. Starting in 1987, in response to the emerging AIDS epidemic, the Clinic was the first law school-based legal clinic in the country to represent poor and low-income individuals and families affected by HIV and AIDS. Today, the Clinic works to reduce barriers to access to care for all uninsured, low-income individuals, with an emphasis on those living with chronic medical conditions.
http://www.law.harvard.edu/academics/clinical/lsc/clinics/health.htm
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/foodpolicyinitiative/
 
How to Apply: The posting is available online at https://sjobs.brassring.com/1033/ASP/TG/cim_jobdetail.asp?SID=^/PeUXjlnRLpleELzDng8ZaqyJl_slp_rhc_oabVYF_slp_rhc_/3B3RyzS7ZEApueIXZAlQAmr7SoPZM&jobId=885950&type=search&JobReqLang=1&recordstart=1&JobSiteId=5341&JobSiteInfo=885950_5341&GQId=0
Applicants need to apply through the HR office and should be able to do that through the link above, or by going to the Harvard ASPIRE site and searching for the Auto Req ID 27065BR.

Disability Rights Legal Center Legal Position Announcement
Inland Empire Attorney/Program Director

Position: The Disability Rights Legal Center (DRLC) is a thirty-six year old public interest organization that champions the legal rights of people with disabilities through education, advocacy and litigation. The Inland Empire Program was established in 2005 and is located on the campus of the University of La Verne, College of Law in Ontario, CA.

The DRLC seeks an attorney/program director, who is dynamic and passionate about  special education and disability rights law, a creative thinker, and is committed to mentoring the next generation of disability leaders through its clinical legal program, and who has a proven record of accomplishments.

The Inland Empire program is staffed by the Director who is an attorney, and an
administrative assistant. The program is part of the Disability Rights Legal Center, which is located at the Loyola Law School Public Interest Law Center in downtown Los Angeles and maintains an additional office in Chicago, IL.

Responsibilities: Under the supervision of the DRLC Legal Director, the Director of the
Inland Empire Program’s specific responsibilities include:

Responsible for all aspects of the special education advocacy and civil rights litigation
caseload under state and federal laws. Manages the DRLC Inland Empire Office, including record keeping, keeping track of expenses and timely submitting bills to the main DRLC office. Engaged in strategic planning and annual goals for the Inland Empire program. Supervises the DRLC clinical program and law students at University of La Verne. At the discretion of the Executive Director in consultation with the University of La Verne, teaches a disability rights and special education course. Is a liaison between the Inland Counties disability community and the DRLC Education & Outreach Program to identify training, community building, and outreach needs and opportunities in the Inland Empire. Conducts outreach and training to parents, advocates and service providers regarding special education rights and procedures and disability rights special education. Other duties as assigned

Qualifications: Member of the California Bar; minimum five (5) years attorney experience. Supervisory and leadership experience. Expertise in disability and special education law. Demonstrated commitment to public interest law and advocacy
Ability to expand impact of DRLC among underserved communities. Ability to maintain and further develop relationships with regional stakeholders. Excellent management and organizational skills. Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills. Resourcefulness, creativity and initiative highly desirable.

Salary/Benefits: Salary range within industry norms for attorneys at this level. Benefits include health, dental and vision insurance, life and long term disability insurance, 401K, AFLAC eligibility, three weeks of vacation, and twelve sick days per year. DRLC also observes all Loyola Law School staff holidays, which typically include 14-17 days per year. State bar dues are covered. Position is available immediately. Applicants must include cover letter, resume or CV and writing sample via e-mail to Sasha.Yu@LLS.edu. Please state in the subject line: Inland Empire Director. The DRLC values initiative, diversity and inclusion. Persons with disabilities and people with
diverse backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply. The DRLC is a 501(c)(3).

The University of Oregon School of Law (Eugene) seeks a Supervising Attorney (SA) to manage the Domestic Violence Clinic, supervise students enrolled in the Clinic and to represent survivors of domestic violence, stalking, and sexual assault. This live-client clinical program works closely with community partners, Womenspace, Sexual Assault Support Services, and Lane County Legal Aid and Advocacy Center, to ensure holistic and comprehensive services for its clients. The SA will be a 12-month renewable, fixed-term, non-tenure track, instructor position.  There is an expectation that this position will continue beyond one year contingent on need, funding and performance.  At this time, there is flexibility as to whether the position will be full-time or part-time.  FTE is negotiable, .6 to 1.0.  Requirements for review include a JD, a State of Oregon Bar license or the eligibility to become licensed in Oregon prior to the start of the position (by passing the July Bar or applying for bar admission based upon reciprocity), and 3 years law practice experience working with survivors of domestic violence, stalking, and sexual assault and/or low-income clients.  See the University of Oregon Website: http://jobs.uoregon.edu/unclassified.php?id=3904  for a complete list of job requirements, supplemental questions, job description, and application procedures.  To ensure consideration, all required documents must be submitted by July 5, 2012.  The position will remain open until filled.  The top candidate must successfully complete a criminal background check.  The University of Oregon is an AA/EO/ADA institution strongly committed to cultural diversity.

CLINICAL ASST PROF(D53NN) Degree and area of specialization: Minimum number of years and type of relevant work experience: Principal duties:

TO ENSURE CONSIDERATION HOW TO APPLY:

Peggy Hacker	Phone: 608-890-0899
University of Wisconsin Law School	Fax: 608-263-3380
Frank J Remington Center	Email: pjhacker@wisc.edu
975 Bascom Mall

NOTE: Unless confidentiality is requested in writing, information regarding the names of applicants must be released upon request. Finalists cannot be guaranteed confidentiality. 

UW-Madison is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
We promote excellence through diversity and encourage all qualified individuals to apply.

U.D.C. David A. Clarke School of Law, well known for its leadership in clinical legal education and for its public interest mission, is pleased to announce a fellowship opportunity in the HIV / AIDS Law Clinic

 The two-year LL.M. program includes coursework in clinical pedagogy, public interest law, and systems change.  LL.M. candidates will work under the supervision of the Law School’s experienced faculty to supervise and teach J.D. students enrolled in our clinics.

By the end of the second academic year each LL.M. candidate will produce a culminating project in the form of a scholarly work of publishable quality or project designed to impact systems change.  

 HIV / AIDS Clinic

The HIV / AIDS Law Clinic provide comprehensive, holistic legal services to families affected by HIV / AIDS. Under the supervision of clinical faculty, students assist families in accessing public benefits and in drafting and executing last wills and testaments, powers of attorney and advanced directives. The  Clinic also represents caregivers facing a wide variety of permanency issues, such as the need to plan for the future care of their children by transferring legal custody to another member of the family or to a family friend if and when that caregiver is no longer able to parent the children. 

Candidates with at least two years of law practice or teaching experience in the areas of family law, housing or public benefits preferred.  Experience representing people with HIV /AIDS and those affected by the epidemic is a plus.  Candidates should be a member of the DC Bar.

 

Admissions Process

 

Please submit the following:

 

1. A response to the following questions in no more than 1,000 words (two pages):

           

      In your area of concentration, what systemic problems have you identified?  How do you envision using the law to transform the system?

 

2. Resume
3. Writing Sample
4. Law School Transcript (official)
5. Two letters of recommendation from persons with personal knowledge of your capabilities and commitment to social justice.

 

Please send materials, except transcript, electronically to kforman@udc.edu.

Please enter LL.M. Application in the subject line.

 

 L.L. M. candidates will receive a stipend of 49,667, plus health benefits.

The program will begin on August 1, 2012

The position will remain open until filled.

 

 

Questions? Please contact:

 

            Karen Forman

            Director, Public Interest and Clinical Programs

                        kforman@udc.edu

The University of Colorado Law School seeks applicants for a clinical faculty position in its American Indian Law Clinic (http://www.colorado.edu/law/clinics/ilc/). The Clinic was one of the first of its kind in the country, having been founded in 1992.  The incoming clinical faculty member will be charged with assessing and creating a docket of cases and projects that will expose students to an array of issues of Indian law and to legal work in Indian Country.  The faculty member will have primary responsibility for supervising students in their case or project work, and for organizing and teaching a companion clinical seminar.  The faculty  member also will have an opportunity to work with students as part of Colorado Law’s broader American Indian Law Program.

 

Candidates must have a JD degree and a minimum of five years practical experience.  Prior teaching experience is strongly preferred.  Candidates must be licensed to practice law in at least one state and be eligible either to sit for the Colorado bar or to apply for an admission waiver.

 

To apply, candidates should mail a letter describing their interest, their initial thoughts on the kinds of cases or projects they would develop for the Indian Law clinic, including discussing why the range of work selected well prepares students to work on behalf of Native peoples or in Indian Country.  The letter should also address a candidate’s relevant practice experience and any prior teaching experience, and include a resume and the names of three references to Deborah J. Cantrell, Associate Professor & Director of Clinical Programs, University of Colorado Law School, Wolf Law Building, 404 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0404.  The deadline for applications is September 15, 2012.  Teaching will begin August 2013.  Colorado Law is an equal opportunity employer.