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Seton Hall University School of Law welcomes applications for Clinical Teaching Fellowships to begin in the fall of 2024. The Center for Social Justice is home to most of the Law School's clinical programs. For more details about the clinics, please visit our website at https://law.shu.edu/clinics/index.html.

The New Jersey State Bar Foundation (NJSBF) Clinical Teaching Fellowship is designed to launch the teaching careers of practitioners with at least 3-5 years of practice experience. The fellows will have the opportunity to co-teach with an experienced clinician and to participate in supervision rounds and discussions of clinical pedagogy with clinical teaching fellows from Rutgers Newark and Seton Hall. The fellows also will be mentored in pursuit of scholarship interests and goals. The Seton Hall Law School Center for Social Justice seeks to hire two teaching fellows, beginning in the 2024-25 academic year, as described below. The fellows will be hired for 1 year, with the possibility of continuation for an additional 1 or 2 years.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Criminal Defense and Community Advocacy Clinic – The NJSBF Clinical Teaching Fellow will assist Professor Isis Misdary, director of the clinic, with the full-year clinic. During the first year, the fellow will co-supervise students with Professor Misdary and develop and assist with teaching the seminar component of the clinic. The fellow will also be expected to manage a docket of cases, movement lawyering projects and advocacy reports during the summer. Minimum requirements include a J.D. degree and membership in good standing of the Bar of any state, with the opportunity to apply for admission to New Jersey; 3 years of legal practice experience in criminal law with preference for experience in New Jersey; and the potential for teaching excellence.

Immigrants' Rights/International Human Rights Clinic and Equal Justice Clinic – The NJSBF Clinical Teaching Fellow will assist Professor Lori Nessel, director of the Immigrants' Rights Clinic, and Professor Jenny-Brooke Condon, director of the Equal Justice Clinic. During the first year, the fellow will co-supervise students with Professors Nessel and Condon and assist with teaching the seminar component of the clinic. The fellow will also be expected to manage a docket of cases and advocacy reports during the summer. Minimum requirements include a J.D. degree and membership in good standing of the Bar of any state, with the opportunity to apply for admission to New Jersey; 3 years of legal practice experience with preference for experience in New Jersey and in substantive areas related to the clinics' work, including immigration, criminal law, and civil rights; and the potential for teaching excellence.

Required Qualifications:

Law degree.
Minimum 3 years of practice experience.

Licenses and Certificates:

J.D. degree and membership in good standing of the Bar of any state, with the opportunity to apply for admission to New Jersey

Salary Grade:

AD190 - Administrative

Exempt/Nonexempt: Exempt

Physical Demands: General Office Environment

Special Instructions to Applicants:

Interested candidates should submit a cover letter, resume/CV, list of at least 3 references, unofficial law school transcript, and writing sample. Please indicate in your cover letter if you are applying for both fellowship positions or only one. Applicants will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the positions are filled.

Seton Hall University is committed to programs of Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and the principles of affirmative action.

About Seton Hall University

Seton Hall University is a major Catholic university. In a diverse and collaborative environment it focuses on academic and ethical development. Seton Hall students are prepared to be leaders in their professional and community lives in a global society and are challenged by outstanding faculty, an evolving technologically advanced setting and values-centered curricula.

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