Law School Clinical Teaching Fellow Contract

Seton Hall University School of Law welcomes applications for a Clinical Teaching Fellowship with the Criminal Defense and Community Advocacy Clinic to begin during the 2024-25 academic year. 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. For details about the Criminal Defense and Community Advocacy Clinic, go to https://law.shu.edu/clinics/criminal-defense-community-advocacy.html.

The New Jersey State Bar Foundation (NJSBF) Clinical Teaching Fellowship is designed to launch the teaching careers of practitioners with at least 1-5 years of practice experience. The fellow 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 fellow also will be mentored in pursuit of scholarship interests and goals. The Seton Hall Law School Center for Social Justice seeks to hire a teaching fellow, beginning in the 2024-25 academic year, as described below. The fellow will be hired for 1 year, with the possibility of continuation for an additional 1 or 2 years.

Duties and Responsibilities:

The NJSBF Clinical Teaching Fellow will assist Professor Isis Misdary, director of the Criminal Defense and Community Advocacy 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; 1 year of legal practice experience in criminal law with preference for experience in New Jersey; and the potential for teaching excellence.

Required Qualifications:

Law degree.
Minimum 1 year 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 must submit a cover letter, resume/CV, list of at least 3 references, unofficial law school transcript, and writing sample. Applicants will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled.

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