Clinical Faculty Position, Georgia State University College of Law
Georgia State University’s College of Law seeks highly qualified applicants for a fulltime clinical faculty position in its interdisciplinary Health Law Partnership (HeLP) Legal Services Clinic. Launched in 2004, HeLP is a community-based medical-legal collaboration among the law school, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, and the Atlanta Legal Aid Society (see www.healthlawpartnership.org). HeLP provides legal assistance to low-income families and their children who are patients at Children’s hospitals on civil matters that have the potential to improve children’s health and quality of life, such as laws related to public benefits, family welfare, housing, education, consumer rights, employment, disability, and permanency planning. The HeLP Clinic, launched in 2007, teaches interdisciplinary collaborative problem-solving to students of law, medicine, and graduate students of social work, bioethics, and public health (see https://law.gsu.edu/student-experience/experiential-learning/clinics/health-law-partnership-legal-services-clinic/).
The position is a non-tenure track twelve-month clinical faculty appointment, with faculty status that satisfies ABA Accreditation Standard 405© for providing clinical faculty with job security reasonably similar to tenure. Clinical faculty, after a five year probationary period, are eligible for presumptively renewable contracts, and job security commensurate with tenured faculty. Clinical faculty have voting rights (including all faculty hiring matters) and serve on faculty committees at the College of Law. A clinical faculty member’s teaching package typically includes the clinic for two semesters and one additional non-clinical course, consistent with their expertise and interests.
Responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to:
- Teaching and Supervising law students in casework and clinic projects;
- Supervising students from other professions and coordinating with other Georgia State University units and other academic institutions in Atlanta for the participation of non-law graduate students in the HeLP clinic;
- Sharing responsibility for developing and teaching seminar sessions;
- Performing administrative responsibilities associated with the HeLP and HeLP Clinic;
- Coordinating with HeLP and its partners;
- Collaborating with HeLP partners and others in the education of medical and other partners and constituents, and conducting research and policy advocacy consistent with the mission and components of HeLP;
- Engaging in research and service as defined in the college’s Clinical Non-Tenure Track Faculty Manual.
Applications are welcome from both entry-level, junior lateral, and senior lateral faculty. Depending on the experience level of the successful candidate, the position may also include an appointment as either the director, co-director, or the associate director of the clinic. Applicants should apply with a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, complete law school transcript, and sample of written work. Three letters of reference will be required of any candidates invited for final interview.
Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. To ensure full consideration, please submit your application by September 1, 2024. Applications received after this date may be considered at the discretion of the Clinic Recruitment Committee.
Please note that applicants may be required to submit further documentation prior to a screening and/or campus interview.
For questions related to this announcement, please contact:
Ted Afield
Associate Dean for Experiential Education and Director of Clinical Programs,
Mark and Evelyn Trammell Clinical Professor of Law
Director, Philip C. Cook Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic
Georgia State University College of Law
wafield@gsu.edu
