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Networking > Jobs, Visitorships & Fellowships
Looking for a new position in the academy or with a public interest legal organization?
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The Center for Reproductive Rights – Columbia Law School Fellowship (“CRR-CLS Fellowship”) is a two-year, post-graduate fellowship offered by the Center for Reproductive Rights (“the Center”) and
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Albany Law School invites applications and nominations for the position of President and Dean. The Law School seeks an inspiring, collaborative and strategic leader to articulate and implement a compelling vision for the School’s future. This vision will reflect the School’s strong commitment to excellence in scholarship and teaching, and increase the School’s regional and national prominence, positioning it for future competitive success.
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Brooklyn Law School in Brooklyn, New York seeks applications and nominations for the position of Dean.
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Case Western Reserve University School of Law Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic invites applications from entry-level or lateral candidates for a tenure-track position in the Health Law Clinic beginning in July 2012. We will also consider short or long term visiting appointments for promising candidates.
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CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW invites applications from entry-level and lateral candidates for tenure-track faculty positions beginning July 2012 in a wide variety of subject areas. We will also consider making short or long term visiting appointments for promising candidates.
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CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW seeks highly qualified lateral candidates to fill a senior tenured position at the chair level. The chair is open to outstanding candidates in the field of jurisprudence or legal philosophy. Qualified candidates should have a national or international reputation for sustained scholarship in their discipline and demonstrate a career-long commitment to making substantial, continuing contributions to scholarship, teaching, and service. The minimum academic requirement for appointment is a JD or equivalent.
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CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW seeks highly qualified lateral candidates to fill a senior tenured position at the chair level. The chair is open to outstanding candidates in the field of Intellectual Property with an emphasis on Law and the Arts.
Qualified candidates should have a national or international reputation for sustained scholarship in their discipline and demonstrate a career-long commitment to making substantial, continuing contributions to scholarship, teaching, and service. The minimum academic requirement for appointment is a JD or equivalent.
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Through a variety of new initiatives CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW is expanding its presence in and involvement with China. We invite applications from entry-level and lateral candidates with experience, expertise, and scholarly publications concerning business and trade with China. We will also consider making short or long term visiting appointments for promising candidates.
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CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW invites applications for a litigation skills faculty position beginning in the 2012-2013 academic year. The successful candidate will be appointed as a Senior Instructor. Depending on experience and qualifications, the initial contract will be for a period ranging from one to three years. We seek candidates with distinguished academic records and extensive experience applying litigation skills in actual law practice. Candidates with prior litigation skills teaching experience will be strongly preferred. Minimum academic requirement: JD or equivalent from a US or foreign law school.
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CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW invites applications for a Director of the Academic and Writing Support Program and Writing Center beginning in the 2012-2013 academic year. The individual will also have the faculty rank of Instructor. Depending on experience and qualifications, the initial contract will be for a period ranging from one to five years.
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CCR seeks a full-time Director, preferably an attorney, to plan, expand, coordinate and oversee its newly created Social Justice Institute (SJI). Since 1987, CCR has trained the next generation of “people's lawyers” through a variety of internships and fellowships, including its renowned Ella Baker Summer Fellowship Program. Through these programs, law students assist CCR attorneys with casework and research while taking part in trainings and educational seminars with activists and scholars. The SJI is an umbrella program through which our fellowships and internships will be coordinated and housed. Application deadline is January 6, 2012.
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The Associate Dean for International Affairs provides leadership at the Cornell University Law School for the programs that support the needs, goals and administrative requirements in the fields of international, transnational and comparative law. Including develop, implement and coordinate institutional initiatives. Report to the Vice Dean and collaborate with law school administration and faculty, to identify and prioritize goals, including strategic planning, program development, marketing, international scholar and student exchanges, instruction abroad, on and off-campus programs, public relations and represent international legal studies. Oversee the strategic planning, processes and communications required to implement programs, build effective collaborations and partnerships with other services and organizations within the university, peer institutions in the US and abroad. The Associate Dean will represent, oversee, develop and have management responsibility for the Clarke Center for International and Comparative Legal Studies and the Berger International Legal Studies Program (in support of the Reich Director of the Berger Program).
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The City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law seeks an exceptional individual to serve as its Associate Dean of Clinical Programs. We look for a person who will be a creative and committed leader for our well developed in-house and externship program. The Associate Dean will lead an outstanding group of faculty members who together have developed a nationally-ranked clinical program. We seek a person who shares our commitment to social justice, who thinks deeply about practice models and strategies that work to promote justice, and who brings pedagogical insights to the design of programs to educate the next generation of public interest lawyers.
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CUNY School of Law will hire an Instructor responsible for project supervision, project management, co-teaching and curricular development in the International Women's Human Rights Clinic (IWHRC). October 18 review of resumes begins.
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The City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law seeks two highly qualified candidates for tenure-track appointments. Areas of particular interest include Civil Practice; Corporate and Commercial Law (with attention to the public sector and a range of regulatory arrangements); and Lawyering. Resume review begins October 18.
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Rutgers University, School of Management and Labor Relations, is seeking a Director for its Center for Women and Work, an innovative leader in research and programs that promote gender equity, a high-skill economy, and reconciliation of work and well-being for all.
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The School of Law at the University of California at Los Angeles is accepting applications for the position of Director of the Critical Race Studies Program. The appointment is renewable on a year to year basis. Application deadline is September 16, 2011.
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COLLEGE OF LAW
CLINICAL FACULTY POSITIONS
Florida International University College of Law invites applications for clinical faculty positions to begin in the 2012-13 academic year. The Program seeks a Director for its Immigration and Human Rights Clinic. This clinic was established in 2004 and has developed a strong record of advocacy in asylum and international human rights work. The position requires an experienced attorney with commitment to clinical education and practice experience in the area of immigration/political asylum and international human rights law. -
Founding Dean, Faculty of Law
Lakehead University
Lakehead University is conducting an extensive search for a Founding Dean, Faculty of Law, to take office at the earliest opportunity, and no later than the summer of 2012, and invites expressions of interest, applications and nominations. -
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT - ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR - CENTER FOR LAW, HEALTH & SOCIETY - GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY
The College of Law at Georgia State University seeks to fill the position of Associate Director for the Center for Law, Health & Society. Established in 2004, the Center’s mission is to advance the key role that law plays in promoting society’s health through research, education, and professional and community engagement at local, national, and international levels. The Center’s health law program is currently ranked 5th nationally by U.S. News and World Report. -
The George Washington University Law School invites applications for appointments in the Visiting Associate Professor Program. The Program seeks candidates who demonstrate promise as legal scholars and a strong interest in entering the legal academy. Visiting Associate Professors will be hired for two-year terms. During that time, they will teach classes at the Law School and focus on producing one or more works of scholarship in preparation for entry into the teaching market. The Law School anticipates hiring three Visiting Associate Professors for the 2012-14 term.
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Hamline University School of Law seeks one or more faculty members with demonstrated expertise and interest in health law. The successful candidate will join Hamline's acclaimed Health Law Institute (HLI) ranked in the top twenty among U.S. health law programs by U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT. These tenure-track hires will support initiatives of the law school's HLI, which was established in 2005 to bridge the gaps between health law scholarship and policy through engagement, collaboration, and innovation; to serve as a regional forum for addressing issues in health law and policy; and to provide programs, training, and educational opportunities for future health law leaders.
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Hamline University School of Law (HUSL) seeks a Director for its robust clinical legal education program, which includes eleven clinics (Child Advocacy, Education Law, Employment Discrimination Mediation Representation, Immigration Law, Health Law, Innocence, Mediation, Small Business-Nonprofit, State Public Defender, and Trial Practice).
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Hamline University School of Law seeks applications for one or more entry-level tenure track faculty positions in a broad number of areas, including but not limited to constitutional law, torts, criminal procedure, and commercial law.
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Hamline University School of Law
Seeks tenured or tenure track faculty to be Associate Dean (or Director) for Experiential Learning
Hamline University School of Law (HUSL) seeks to hire a full-time tenured or tenure track faculty member to be the Associate Dean (or Director) for Experiential Learning. HUSL provides an outstanding traditional legal education, with value-added opportunities for every student to participate in clinics and externships, as well as competitions and mandatory pro bono activities. Offerings of simulation courses in lawyering and dispute resolution skills are also a hallmark of the Hamline law school education. We seek a new dean (or director) with faculty rank to expand, enhance, and provide more coordinated leadership for all of HUSL’s work-integrated learning opportunities. S/he will also directly manage either the externship or clinical programs of the law school.
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Harvard Divinity School announces five full-time positions as Research Associate and Visiting Faculty for 2012-13 in its Women’s Studies in Religion Program. Research proposals should utilize both religion and gender as central categories of analysis. They may address women and religion in any time, place or religious tradition, and may utilize disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches from across the fields of theology, the humanities, and the social sciences.
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Howard University School of Law seeks two candidates for tenure-track or tenured faculty positions commencing with the 2012 academic year. The ideal candidates for both positions must have a J.D. or equivalent degree, a record of high academic achievement, and must have demonstrated promise for excellence in teaching and scholarly productivity.
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LatinoJustice PRLDEF is seeking en energetic, motivated attorney with a record of commitment to social jsutice work, excellent legal, written, research, and communications skills to join our legal team. The attorney will be based in our NYC office in lower Manhattan but will primarily be engaged in litigation and advocacy on behalf of emerging Latino communities throughout the country.
Senior Associate Counsel with seven years experience and must be biligual. For a fuller description of the qualifications, download the pdf of the job announcement.
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LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO SCHOOL OF LAW invites applications for two positions from either lateral candidates with a proven track record of scholarship or entry-level candidates with strong scholarly potential. Depending on the qualifications of the candidate, the appointments may be on either a tenured or tenure-track basis. With the goal of expanding our growing community of scholars, these appointments will build upon the substantial lateral hiring Loyola School of Law has successfully undertaken in the last several years, with the support of the University.
We are flexible about teaching interests as our curricular areas of interest include Criminal Law, Evidence, Torts, Property, Civil Procedure and Commercial Law.
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Loyola University Chicago School of Law, a well established urban Jesuit law school is currently seeking candidates to fill its recently vacated chair in international law named in honor of Hong Kong businessman Wing-Tat Lee.
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The ACLU Foundation of Massachusetts seeks a Legal Director to lead and expand its litigation and legal advocacy programs for the 21st century. The Legal Director, a visionary strategic thinker with passion, drive, and creativity, will work in a dynamic, progressive team environment to promote the creative use of law reform to defend and promote civil rights and civil liberties.
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New York Law School, a private institution located in the heart of New York City and one of the oldest independent law schools in the United States, seeks a Dean and President (“Dean”). The Dean must have the vision and leadership skills to continue the great strides the School has made in recent years in education, legal scholarship, diversification of faculty, development of academic centers, and student involvement.
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Northeastern University School of Law seeks an Associate Dean for Administration and Planning.
Northeastern is an innovative law school located in the heart of Boston, with a demonstrated commitment to experiential learning; public interest law, social justice and diversity; and a focus on a student-centered environment. For additional information on the School of Law and its mission, please visit www.northeastern.edu/law. -
Northeastern University School of Law is seeking candidates for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position.
The School of Law is looking for applications from candidates interested in teaching and doing research in the areas of criminal law, criminal procedure and evidence. -
Northeastern University seeks an engaged and entrepreneurial leader for the position of Dean of the School of Law. Reporting to the Provost/Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, the Dean will have an extraordinary opportunity to lead a school that is a national and international leader in experiential legal education with a particular focus on law as a tool for furtherance of social justice. The School of Law embraces and enhances Northeastern University’s distinctive educational mission and is central to the University’s reputation for fostering research and scholarship that serves global and societal needs.
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Northeastern University School of Law invites applications for a one-year grant funded fellowship to teach a new entrepreneurship clinic. The clinic will provide services to low-income and other underserved entrepreneurs in the Boston metropolitan area who need assistance with legal issues commonly encountered by start-up businesses, including negotiating licenses, permits and financial documents, protecting intellectual property rights, and responding to regulatory hurdles. The clinic will also focus on helping start-up businesses in new industries such as green construction and related technologies. The pedagogical goals of the clinic will be to teach transactional law practice as well as provide students with a rich experience in representing marginalized clients.
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Northeastern University School of Law seeks a highly entrepreneurial, innovative individual to lead its new LLM program and to work on the development of international programming for the law school.
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Pace University School of Law seeks to fill one tenure-track faculty position for a law professor to teach and supervise a direct representation clinic, commencing in the 2012-2013 academic year.
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The University of the Pacific seeks an exceptional leader to become the ninth dean of its McGeorge School of Law ("Pacific McGeorge"), replacing Dean Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker who is stepping down after 10 years of exemplary service. The successful candidate will be a creative, dynamic, and visionary leader who can continue to lead the law school's upward trajectory-someone who will build on the accomplishments of the past and help the law school move to a new level of excellence. October 15 deadline to submit a letter of intention.
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Public Justice, a national public interest law firm that combines the skills and resources of the private bar with the goals and knowledge of the public interest community, seeks to hire a recent law school graduate to serve as its Brayton-Thornton Attorney for two years in either its Washington, D.C. headquarters or its Oakland, California office. The Fellow will help develop, coordinate the handling of, and litigate Public Justice’s cases. The position will be open beginning in November 2011.
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The Mississippi Center for Justice seeks applicants for an AmeriCorps Legal Fellow position to be funded by the Corporation for National and Community Service (administered by Equal Justice Works) and the Mississippi Center for Justice (MCJ). Beginning between August and September, 2011, the fellow will work at MCJ’s Jackson office on foreclosure prevention.
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The Southern Illinois University School of Law is looking to fill several faculty positions this year, including three tenure track positions as well as a Director of Clinical and Experiential Learning. The position description for the tenure track lines is at http://www.law.siu.edu/Faculty_staff/ttfaculty.php. The position description for the Director of Clinical and Experiential Education is at http://www.law.siu.edu/Faculty_staff/dcee.php.
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Syracuse University College of Law invites applicants for one or more tenure-track positions beginning fall 2012 with teaching and scholarly interests in first year courses, including torts, civil procedure, and constitutional law I, and in core upper-division courses, including constitutional law II, evidence and criminal procedure. And there is an opening, too, to direct the Criminal Defense Law Clinic.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON SCHOOL OF LAW invites applications for visiting faculty positions in the 2012-13 academic year. We seek visitors for the fall and spring semesters to teach Torts, Contracts, Property, and Civil Procedure. Depending upon fit, the visits may be either a semester or a year.
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The University of Nebraska College of Law invites applications for three tenure-track faculty positions focusing on teaching in several areas, including telecommunications and cyber law, business associations as well as other transactional law courses such as corporate finance and governance, transactional skills courses, securitization, venture capital, entrepreneurship, trusts and estates, and federal estate and gift tax.
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The University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law will be making several faculty appointments this year. We are particularly interested in hiring one or more persons with interest in Business and Intellectual Property (particularly in the biotechnology or informational technology fields) as a consequence of the philanthropic support we have recently received from the W.P. Carey Foundation. We will also consider lateral candidates who teach or write in civil procedure or in law and health care, and entry level candidates to meet a variety of needs in the core first year curriculum.
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The University of Pittsburgh School of Law (Pitt Law), one of the nation’s leaders in legal education, is seeking a new Dean to succeed Mary Crossley, who will be returning to teaching and research after seven years of successful leadership. Pitt Law features a broad and varied curriculum, an internationally accomplished faculty, and a talented and diverse student body hailing from all over the globe. The school is located on the main campus of the University of Pittsburgh, one of the nation’s top public research universities, just minutes from state and federal courts, major corporate headquarters, and hundreds of law firms located in downtown Pittsburgh, a city which has enjoyed a remarkable transformation into a world-class center of education, medicine and developing technology.
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The University of Washington School of Law and the College of Arts and Sciences have an outstanding opportunity for a Visiting Lecturer/Supervising Attorney for a one-year positionin our new Interdisciplinary International Human Rights Clinic. The position is a twelve-month, ½ time appointment at a salary of $40,000, commencing on either March 16 or September 16, 2012. Because of the interdisciplinary nature of the role, the Supervising Attorney will report to both theDirector of the Center for Human Rights, who is the Helen H. Jackson Chair in Human Rights, and to the Director of the Clinical Law Program at the law school. The Supervising Attorney will work with faculty and students from disciplines and units across campus.
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The University of Wyoming College of Law will be hiring one tenure-track facultymember to teach in the law school’s Legal Writing Program beginning in the 2012-2013 academic year. The individual selected for this position will teach in the law school’s first-year writing program and will have the opportunity to design and teach an advanced legal writing elective course in the upper division.
At the University of Wyoming, faculty members teaching in the Legal Writing Program enjoy the same status as the rest of the law faculty, with parity in salary and benefits, rights to the tenure and promotion process, the same voting rights, eligibility for sabbaticals, eligibility for summer research stipends, eligibility for professional development travel funds, eligibility for funds for research assistants, rights to the same office space and support staff, and the same academic titles of Assistant Professor of Law, Associate Professor of Law, Professor of Law, and Endowed or Distinguished Professor of Law, as appropriate per appointment and promotion. -
Vermont Law School (VLS) seeks applications and nominations for a new President and Dean who will lead our community and advance the mission of the school. VLS is a private, independent law school established in 1972. The new President and Dean will have the opportunity to build on the momentum that VLS is experiencing and will assume the position in July, 2012.
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Vermont Law School seeks a Faculty Director for its Environment and Natural Resources Law Clinic (ENRLC) to commence in the summer or fall of 2012, or possibly earlier.
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