THE HEALTH JUSTICE ALLIANCE LAW CLINIC is accepting applications for a Two-Year Clinical Teaching Fellowship, from 2020 to 2022.

Clinic Description

The Health Justice Alliance Law Clinic is part of a medical-legal partnership between Georgetown Law Center and Georgetown University Medical Center. Launched in August 2017, the Law Clinic integrates law students directly into Georgetown community-based health clinics serving children and families living in poverty in Washington, D.C. Law students provide civil legal services to address barriers that affect patient health and well-being in collaboration with medical students, physicians, and other healthcare providers.

Patients at these clinics face multi-generational, complex, civil legal needs, many of which negatively impact their health and well-being. Among the needs currently being served are those related to education, housing, family law, and public benefits, including access to health insurance. By partnering directly with healthcare providers, who help identify when patients have unmet legal needs, the Law Clinic is implementing an upstream legal services approach that fills an important access to justice gap in D.C. and works to treat legal issues before they escalate into more serious legal crises. By meeting patients’ medical and legal needs in places where they already have trusted relationships, the HJA Law Clinic offers a unique and especially effective method for reducing the barriers to justice that often confront people living in poverty.  Medical students rotate into the law clinic and collaborate with law students and clinical teaching fellows in providing holistic advocacy to client families. 

Description of the Fellowship

The Health Justice Alliance Law Clinic is hiring an individual to serve as a clinical teaching fellow and supervising attorney for two years. The two-year fellowship may start as early as May 2020. The fellowship is designed for a lawyer interested in developing teaching and supervisory abilities in a setting that emphasizes a dual commitment—clinical education of law students and poverty lawyering in the context of a medical-legal partnership and in the areas of civil legal aid identified above.  The fellow will supervise law students providing civil legal services to families living in poverty and serve as a mentor and role model to law students in the clinic, which has a track record of attracting students from historically underrepresented backgrounds.  The fellow will join the clinical teaching team, which consists of a senior teaching fellow and clinic director, in supervising law students, teaching law clinic seminar classes, and facilitating case rounds. The teaching team is highly collaborative and uses a team-based approach to pedagogy planning and problem solving. Successful completion of the fellowship results in the award of an L.L.M. in Advocacy from Georgetown University.

Fellows have several areas of responsibility, with an increasing role in the clinic and student supervision as the fellowship progresses.  Over the course of the two years, the fellow will:

• Directly represent clients who are referred by our health care partners;
• Supervise students in casework and clinic projects;
• Share responsibility for designing and teaching seminar sessions;
• Assist with administrative and case handling responsibilities of the clinic;
• Participate in a clinical pedagogy seminar and other activities for the L.L.M., which is designed to support an interest in clinical teaching and legal education;
• Collaborate with law and medical students and faculty on research, policy, education, advocacy, and/or other projects designed to increase access to justice and health for underserved D.C. residents.

Teaching fellows receive an annual stipend of approximately $57,000 in the first year and $60,000 in the second year, health and dental benefits, and all tuition and fees in the LL.M. program. As full-time students, teaching fellows may qualify for deferment of their student loans and/or may be eligible for loan repayment assistance from their law schools.

Qualifications

The Health Justice Alliance Law Clinic seeks a prospective fellow with:

• Experience providing civil legal services to low-income clients (special education law, housing, and/or public benefits are areas of particular need);
• Minimum of 3 years of post-J.D. legal experience;
• Membership in the District of Columbia Bar (if not a member of the D.C. Bar must apply for admission by waiver upon accepting the fellowship offer);
• Demonstrated commitment to social justice and an interest in clinical teaching; and
• Prior medical, health-related, or mental health-related experience a plus.

Application Instructions:

Please submit a letter of interest, résumé/CV, complete law school transcript, a list of at least three references, and a writing sample (max. 10 pages) to HealthJusticeAlliance@georgetown.edu by Friday, February 7, 2020. Candidates will be considered on a rolling basis until the position is filled; therefore, we encourage you to apply as early as possible.  If you have any questions please contact Eugenia Alvarez, Office Manager for the Health Justice Alliance Law Clinic, at ea661@georgetown.edu.  

Note: Georgetown Law Center is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer and undertakes special efforts to employ a diverse workforce.

CHICAGO-KENT COLLEGE OF LAW, ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY is now accepting applications for the position of Director of Appellate Advocacy for the 2020-2021 academic year.  The Director’s primary function will be to run Chicago-Kent’s Moot Court Honor Society. Since the founding of the Moot Court Honor Society in 1978, its members have won dozens of national and regional championships and over 100 awards for brief-writing and oral advocacy. Chicago-Kent College of Law's program in appellate advocacy builds on the first-year legal research and writing program, providing students with advanced training and the opportunity to compete in internal and external moot court competitions.  Students are invited to join the Moot Court Honor Society based on their performance in a selection process at the end of their first year of school.

The Director teaches an Appellate Advocacy class in the fall semester for the new Moot Court Honor Society students.  This class focuses on upper-level training in appellate advocacy, both written and oral, and culminates in an in-house competition, the Ilana Diamond Rovner Competition. Students are selected to represent Chicago-Kent in interscholastic competitions based on their performance in the course. With the student Executive Board of the Moot Court Honor Society, the Director selects outside competitions and student team members, functions as a general adviser for the teams, and aids in administering the program. 

In addition to administering the Moot Court Honor Society and teaching the Appellate Advocacy course, the Director of Appellate Advocacy will also be expected to teach at least one other upper-division course each academic year. The selection of this course will depend upon academic needs and the Director’s own interests.

Applicants must have a degree from an accredited law school and a strong academic record.  Excellent written and oral communication skills are essential, and prior practice, clerkship, and appellate experience are highly desirable.  Applicants must possess outstanding interpersonal skills as well.

Chicago-Kent College of Law is an equal opportunity employer.

Please submit a cover letter, a resume, three references, and a writing sample via email to Ms. Patricia O’Neal at poneal@kentlaw.iit.edu. The deadline for applications is March 1, 2020.

Qualified applicants will be contacted for interviews. 

GONZAGA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, Spokane, WA, seeks to hire a lateral tenure-track or tenured faculty member for a new clinic in the area of LGBTQ+ rights, to begin Fall 2020.  Though we are open to all lateral candidates, the ideal applicant will have at least three years of full-time clinical teaching experience in an ABA-accredited law school. The successful applicant will play a major role in determining the clinic’s specific emphasis and operation, though we are particularly interested in candidates committed to broader policy work, including appellate and amicus work.

We seek candidates who are productive and creative scholars, exemplary teachers, and committed and engaged institutional citizens.  The successful candidate will have a demonstrated record in collaborative leadership with multiple stakeholders, and be willing to play a critical role in developing and maintaining an innovative, robust program of experiential education. All candidates must be licensed or immediately license-eligible to practice law in the State of Washington.

We are especially interested in candidates who will contribute to the diversity of Gonzaga Law and the profession.  We encourage applications from the LGBTQ+ community, persons of color, women, persons with disabilities, and other historically underrepresented groups.

For inquiries, contact the Chair of the Faculty Recruitment Committee, Prof. Jason Gillmer, at gillmer@gonzaga.edu or inquire online at humanresources@gonzaga.edu. To apply, please visit our website at https://gonzaga.peopleadmin.com/postings/14027 to submit your cover letter, CV, and references.

For Gonzaga University School of Law’s mission and diversity statements, please visit https://www.gonzaga.edu/school-of-law/about/mission-vision.

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS CLINIC is seeking qualified applicants for a full-time position teaching, training and supervising law students as a Clinical Fellow, appointed with the rank of Lecturer. This position is is expected to begin on August 1, 2020. The appointment is for two years with the possibility of a third year re-appointment. The IHR Clinic works for the promotion of global justice. The IHR Clinic uses international human rights laws and norms as well as other substantive law and strategies to draw attention to human rights violations, develop practical solutions, and promote accountability on the part of state and non-state actors.

In collaboration with partners, IHR Clinic designs and implements projects that advance human rights through adjudication in domestic and international fora and other forms of advocacy including fact-finding and documentation, research, legislation and policy development, and public awareness raising.

The Clinical Fellow will work under the supervision of the Director of the IHR Clinic, and will participate in all aspects of the Clinic, including teaching and design of the clinic curriculum and management of clinic projects. The Clinical Fellow will perform the following duties at the direction of the IHR Clinic Director: supervision of clinic students; development of clinic work-product through research and drafting, editing and revising written work; development of teaching materials and teaching in the clinic; identifying and selecting clients; conducting factual investigations; managing IHR Clinic communications and social media outlets, and organizing and coordinating events, such as conferences and lectures, and other clinic activities. Position will likely require international travel. Candidates must have a J.D. or equivalent international degree and at least two to five years of relevant work experience. Relevant work experience can include experience in international law, international human rights, public law and policy advocacy and public interest law practice. Preferred qualifications include demonstrated interest and/or knowledge in international human rights issues, prior teaching experience, experience in international human rights lawyering, demonstrated skills in research, writing and oral advocacy, ability to work with technology and communications, and organizational and planning skills. Must be a member in good standing of the bar of Illinois or another state. Fluency in English is required, and another language, preferably Spanish, is strongly desired.

Each candidate should submit a cover letter, resume or curriculum vita, a law school transcript, a list of references, and a legal writing sample (not edited by anyone else). Candidates are required to apply online and upload all application material at the University of Chicago academic recruitment site: http://apply.interfolio.com/72260.

Review of completed applications will begin on January 9, 2020, and will continue until the position is filled or until February 29, 2020, whichever is sooner.

We seek a diverse pool of applicants who wish to join an academic community that places the highest value on rigorous inquiry and encourages a diversity of perspectives, experiences, groups of individuals, and ideas to inform and stimulate intellectual challenge, engagement, and exchange.

The University of Chicago is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity/Disabled/Veterans Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, age, status as an individual with a disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or other protected classes under the law. For additional information please see the University's Notice of Nondiscrimination at http://www.uchicago.edu/about/non_discrimination_statement/. Job seekers in need of a reasonable accommodation to complete the application process should call 773-702-0287 or email ACOppAdministrator@uchicago.edu with their request.

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER'S ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & JUSTICE PROJECT (IPR) seeks applications for a Visiting Associate Professor during the 2020-21 academic year. The Environmental Law & Justice Clinic at the Institute for Public Representation (IPR) is a public interest law firm and clinical education program founded at Georgetown Law in 1971. The Clinic gives students the opportunity to engage in complex, cutting-edge litigation before appellate courts and administrative agencies in matters that have a significant impact on issues of broad public importance.

The clinic is a significant time commitment for students (32 hrs./week) for which they receive 12 credits and participate in a weekly seminar taught by the director and fellows.

The Clinic allows students to work as counsel on unique, large-scale projects for groups and individuals who are unable to obtain effective legal representation. Under the supervision of the Clinic’s faculty and teaching fellows, students have prepared comments and petitions for rulemaking to be filed with administrative agencies; drafted briefs and pleadings for use in court or in administrative agency proceedings; and drafted testimony and comments on proposed legislation and proposed agency rules.

The Clinic works in the area of environmental law and has covered a wide range of issues, including air and water pollution, hazardous waste disposal, renewable energy, wildlife protection, resource extraction, food law, and Indian tribal matters. Recent examples include filing an amicus brief on behalf of 24 environmental law professors in the Fifth Circuit arguing that the Endangered Species Act’s protections for endangered intrastate species are valid under the Commerce Clause and litigating a Clean Water Act enforcement suit to compel a coal-fired power plant to comply with pollution limits in its NPDES permit.

Georgetown Law has operated its top-ranked 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.

Candidates should submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and references to Patrick Griffith, Assistant Dean for Clinical Programs, at patrick.griffith@georgetown.edu. Georgetown Law has a strong commitment to diversity among its faculty and encourages applications from women, racial and ethnic minorities, individuals with disabilities, and veterans.

THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE AND THE RULE OF LAW is hiring two Resident Fellows to serve as the faculty of the new IIJ Academic Unit, responsible for developing and delivering the Unit’s practitioner courses. Fellows will work closely with the Academic Unit Director and other Unit and IIJ staff to ensure an overall curriculum that best addresses practitioner needs and fills critical knowledge gaps relevant to the specific challenges of countering terrorism and transnational crime. The Resident Fellows will innovate on approaches and learning methods and collaborate with leading international specialists to create truly world-class learning experiences. The Academic Unit will deliver in-depth courses to criminal justice practitioners aimed at filling critical knowledge gaps necessary for successfully countering terrorism and transnational crime within a rule of law framework. 

For more information on the position and requirements, please see the IIJ website (https://theiij.org/wp-content/uploads/IIJ-AU-Resident-Fellow-Profile-FINAL.pdf). All interested applicants meeting the qualifications listed therein should submit a cover letter and resume/CV to the IIJ Executive Secretariat at bunyanm@theiij.org no later than11 January 2020, including “RF_AU2019” in the subject line.

THE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S HUMAN RIGHTS CLINIC AT GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER is seeking to hire a Graduate Teaching Fellow. This position is a full-time, two-year appointment that will begin in the summer of 2020. The deadline for applications has been extended to December 31, 2019. For more information about the position, including qualifications and application materials, please visit https://www.law.georgetown.edu/experiential-learning/clinics/international-womens-human-rights-clinic/graduate-teaching-fellowships/.

CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW is seeking qualified applicants for the position of Director of Clinical Programs. This position is tenured or tenure eligible.  Creighton University is a Jesuit university, and as such is committed to the training of students in service to others, and recognizes the importance of family life, the inalienable worth of each individual and values ethnic and cultural diversity as core values. In keeping with Creighton’s Ignatian tradition of inclusivity and compassion, we seek a caring, hospitable environment for everyone, regardless of age, culture, faith, ethnicity, immigrant status, race, gender, sexual orientation, language, physical appearance, physical ability or social class.

Interviews begin by January 20, 2020.

For full details, and to make an application, go to:

EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW’s Barton Child Law and Policy ("Barton Center") is seeking applications for its 2020-2021 Post-Graduate Child Law and Policy Fellowship.  The Fellowship is offered as a one-year position with the possibility of renewal for an additional one-year term, to commence in August of 2020.  The Fellowship offers a unique opportunity for a recent law school graduate to gain experience in policy development, legislative advocacy, and clinical law teaching in the field of child law.  The Fellow will work closely with Barton Center faculty and will report directly to the Executive Director of the Barton Center, assisting with research, policy development, capacity-building through organizational partnerships, skills teaching and supervision of clinical students, and leadership of advocacy strategies in furtherance of the Barton Center's mission.

About the Barton Center:  The Barton Center is a multi-disciplinary child law program whose mission is to promote and protect the legal rights and interests of children who are involved with the courts, child welfare, or juvenile justice systems.  The Center’s work is directed by Emory Law faculty who are leading experts in juvenile law in Georgia, and is performed by law and other graduate students enrolled in the Center’s four legal clinics.  Under faculty supervision, students provide holistic client representation in trial and appellate courts and in administrative proceedings, and collaborate with state leaders to improve child-serving systems through research-based, data-informed policies and well-crafted laws.  In these ways, the Barton Center is meeting the urgent unmet legal needs of individual child-clients while concurrently working to improve the systemic context for state intervention in families, and preparing the next generation of child advocacy professionals.

Fellowship Responsibilities

The responsibilities of the Fellow will include, at a minimum:

• Supervising students and skills training in the Center’s Policy and Legislative Advocacy Clinics and occasional teaching in related classes
• Researching and writing articles, policy papers, or other approved writing projects of publishable quality on topics relating to children involved with the juvenile court, child welfare, or juvenile justice systems
• Providing legal, legislative, and social science research support for Center projects, trainings, and technical assistance
• Leading and participating in ongoing advocacy efforts involving the Georgia General Assembly, state agencies, and organizational partners
• Representing the Barton Center in advocacy coalitions, strategic partnerships, and community engagement events and activities
• Developing independent areas of interest, consistent with the mission of the Barton Center

Qualifications: Priority will be given to law school graduates within three years of law school graduation who have a demonstrated interest in the field of child and family law, strong research and writing skills, and advocacy experience.  Candidates must be able to exercise independent judgment about the priority issues and critical relationships of central concern to the Barton Center; effectively manage multiple projects; communicate effectively orally and in writing, and complete assignments with minimal supervision.

This position is based in Atlanta, Georgia. Salary is competitive with other public interest fellowship opportunities. Emory University offers a competitive benefits package.

Selection Process: Review of applications will begin December 1, 2019, and continue until the position is filled. The position will begin on August 3, 2020.

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.

To apply:

Navigate to Emory Careers link to job posting #46416. All applications must be submitted through this portal.

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, CHICO’s Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice invites applications for a tenure-track position in Legal Studies at the Assistant Professor level. The position begins August 18, 2020.

Initial Review Date:  12/6/2019; complete applications received after that date will be considered until position is filled.

How to Apply:   All applicants must apply online at:  http://jobs.csuchico.edu/postings/5836.

Applicants must provide a cover letter to include, a statement of views on teaching, promoting and fostering a learning environment supportive of diverse backgrounds, a CV, and student evaluations of teaching, if available. Three professional references with contact information should be sent directly to: Professor Sally Anderson at ssanderson@csuchico.edu.

Applications submitted via email or in-person to the department will not be considered.

Qualification Details:

Minimum Qualifications: The minimum requirements for appointment to this position are: a Bachelor’s degree and a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from an accredited law school, current membership in the State of California Bar or membership within two years of the start of employment, ability to teach courses in clinical legal education (i.e., Community Legal Information Clinic) and legal research and writing, and the capacity to engage in publishable academic and/or legal/professional research. The successful candidate should provide evidence of their commitment to or experience promoting and fostering a learning environment that is supportive of individuals from diverse backgrounds.

Preferred Qualifications:  Preference will be given to applicants with any of the following: legal clinical experience, paralegal supervision, experience in practicing law, teaching experience, and/or additional degrees, such as a L.L.M. or Ph.D. In addition to teaching courses in clinical legal education and legal research and writing, the ideal candidate will be able to teach courses in any one of the following areas: Legal Studies Senior Seminar, Constitutional Law, Introduction to Legal Studies, and other elective courses. Please see our current course catalog for a list of the department’s course offerings: Course offerings. Ideal candidates will demonstrate evidence of a research agenda that will lead to publishable academic and/or legal/professional research.

Responsibilities: This tenure-track position carries responsibilities in the areas of teaching, scholarship, and service to the Department and the University. Teaching assignments are based upon qualifications of the individual and the needs of the department.

The Department:  The Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice offers undergraduate degrees in political science (including an option in legal studies), criminal justice, international relations, and public administration, as well as Masters degrees in political science and public administration. We have an exciting curriculum, with numerous options to meet a host of academic interests, and an active and productive faculty committed to excellence in teaching and scholarship. Over 1,000 students major in our department’s programs. Additional information about our Department is available at Political Science/. Additional information about the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences is available at College of BSS. CSU, Chico is committed to recruiting, developing and retaining the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.

The Legal Studies Program: The Legal Studies Program within the Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice includes an active moot court program, a paralegal certificate program, and the Community Legal Information Clinic (CLIC). Founded in 1970, CLIC is an extensive undergraduate law clinic designed to benefit participating students by providing hands-on legal training and active learning experiences. CLIC also provides a unique civic engagement program that helps serve the legal service needs of Northern California. Additional information about the Legal Studies Program is available at: Legal Studies program.

Job-related questions should be directed to:

Professor Sally Anderson, Search Committee Chair

CSU, Chico

400 W. First Street

Chico, CA 95929-0455

530-898-6478

saanderson@csuchico.edu