Job: Teaching + Public Interest Law at Stanford Law Clinic

Academic Job/Career Description - Stanford Law School Community Law Clinic, Clinical Teaching Fellow - Stanford

The Mills Legal Clinic of Stanford Law School invites applicants for the Jay M. Spears clinical teaching fellowship in its Community Law Clinic (“CLC”).

Position

The fellow will have the opportunity to be part of the thriving clinical community at Stanford Law School where, together with the clinical faculty and other fellows, the fellow will represent clients and supervise and train law students who are representing clients.

One of the ten clinical programs constituting the Mills Legal Clinic, the CLC represents low-income people in the communities surrounding the Law School in a variety of civil matters. The Clinic’s areas of focus are employment (wage and hour), housing, and expungement of criminal records, but the emphases of the program shift to respond to the needs of local low-income people. The CLC also conducts other forms of advocacy on behalf of working and non-working poor people in a variety of settings, including community legal education, legislative work, and assisting local organizations with grassroots organizing. More information about the CLC can be found at www.law.stanford.edu/clinics/sclc.

This fellowship will allow a lawyer to spend time honing skills in public-interest lawyering and clinical teaching, with the expectation that at the end of the program, the fellow will be well-positioned to secure a position in one of those fields. Mills Legal Clinic fellows are part of the intellectual community within the clinical program and the Law School at large. Fellows are invited to attend the weekly faculty workshops at which scholars from within Stanford and from throughout the world present works in progress. Fellows will also participate in workshops geared toward clinical teaching and public interest practice. Fellows may also have opportunities to independently design and teach short courses in which students from other clinics may enroll.

Applicants for the fellowship must have demonstrated commitment to public interest lawyering and must possess strong academic credentials. Successful teaching and student supervision experience or the demonstrated potential for such teaching and supervision are desirable.
Qualifications

Applicants for the CLC fellowship must have practice experience (or experience as a student in a clinical program) representing low-income people. Individuals with language capacity in Spanish are particularly encouraged to apply.

The fellowship position is structured as a two-year commitment, with the possibility of a third year extension upon mutual consent, depending on programmatic needs. This fellowship will allow a lawyer to spend time honing skills in public-interest lawyering and clinical teaching, with the expectation that at the end of the program, the fellow will be well-positioned to secure a position in one of those fields. Mills Legal Clinic fellows are part of the intellectual community within the clinical program and the Law School at large. Fellows are invited to attend the weekly faculty workshops at which scholars from within Stanford and from throughout the world present works in progress. Fellows will also participate in workshops geared toward clinical teaching and public interest practice. Fellows may also have opportunities to independently design and teach short courses in which students from other clinics may enroll.

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