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Communication and Legal Reasoning (CLR) program
The Communication and Legal Reasoning program emphasizes teamwork and collaboration among students. Like most Legal Writing courses, CLR introduce students to case law and statutory analysis, legal research, and good writing principles through assignments involving the creation of traditional predictive and persuasive legal documents. In addition, the program is working on developing new and creative ideas about how to foster strong skills in both written and oral communication. Each member of the CLR faculty teaches one section of approximately 28 students. We are thus looking for people with innovative teaching ideas who have a vision of where the legal profession is headed in the twenty-first century and are interested in preparing students for this changing world.
Candidates should have a law degree, a strong academic record, interest in teaching and editing, and preferably some legal or other teaching experience.
To apply for a position in the CLR program, please send your resume, undergraduate and law school transcripts, one or more writing samples, and at least two references to Judith Rosenbaum, Director of Communication and Legal Reasoning and Clinical Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law, 357 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60611.
The writing samples can be assignments you have developed or the type of documents we teach. Please do not send law review articles.
Bluhm Legal Clinic
The Law School seeks faculty candidates in one of its six centers within the Bluhm Legal Clinic. These are full-time, non-tenure track positions teaching law students in the classroom and supervising client work in an innovative clinical program. Candidates must have excellent law school records and strong interpersonal skills. Membership or eligibility for membership in the Illinois Bar is preferred.
To apply for a position in the Blum Legal Clinic, please send your curriculum vitae to Shericka Pringle-Jackson, Executive Director of the Bluhm Legal Clinic.
Current Open Positions
Northwestern University School of Law invites applications for a clinical faculty position beginning in the 2009-2010 academic year in the Bluhm Legal Clinic’s Children and Family Justice Center. Candidates will be considered for appointment to the Clinical Faculty of the Bluhm Legal Clinic of the Northwestern Law School at a level commensurate with experience and qualifications. We seek applicants for this clinical faculty position with at least ten years of experience in representing juveniles charged with crimes in the juvenile and criminal courts and an interest in their right to an appropriate education and in administrative hearings involving school discipline. Experience in handling trials, appeals, post-conviction, class actions, school expulsion and suspension, special education, and other collateral legal matters involving juveniles is strongly preferred. We also seek candidates with distinguished academic records and practice experience, a strong commitment to clinical legal education and teaching, experience in advocacy work on juvenile justice-related policy issues, and an interest in publishing.
The Bluhm Legal Clinic currently includes clinical faculty teaching in its Children and Family Justice Center (juvenile justice delinquency and criminal cases involving adolescents, and the related civil legal matters such as education law, and immigration and asylum matters), The Center on Wrongful Convictions, The Center on International Human Rights, the Small Business Opportunity Center, and other clinical programs that include civil litigation (predatory lending cases, civil suits arising from wrongful convictions, an landlord tenant cases), and criminal defense.
Northwestern University School of Law is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer and encourages nominations of and applications from women and minority candidates.
Applications must be submitted by February 1, 2009. Please send your curriculum vitae and cover letter to Julie Biehl at j-biehl@law.northwestern.edu.
