Legal Writing Positions

Rutgers School of Law - Camden is conducting a national search to fill a 405(c) clinical professor position in our Legal Analysis, Research, and Writing Program (LAWR). Each LAWR clinical professor teaches approximately 40 first-year students in a two-semester, graded, four credit hour course. The professor will also teach an additional course each year. There is considerable flexibility in choosing the other course offering. The first year LAWR program covers legal research, analysis, writing, and oral advocacy skills. The professor, with the assistance of approximately four teaching assistants, is responsible for classroom instruction, regular office hours, periodic conferencing, and review, critique, and evaluation of student work. Our program is a collegial model with a rotating department chair. The current faculty consult about course content but have full academic freedom to design and conduct their own classes. We participate in a scholarship workshop with other lawyering faculty. Successful candidates may be hired at the clinical assistant, clinical associate, or clinical professor level as of July 1, 2009, or as early as January 2009, depending upon availability. Three or five year contracts are available. Clinical professors can vote on all matters other than tenure hiring/promotions; their own promotions; and promotions to positions for contracts of longer length or titles higher than their own. They serve on faculty committees and have travel/research budgets. The ideal candidate will have a law degree from an accredited law school, excellent written and oral skills, legal practice experience, and recent legal research and writing teaching experience. Rutgers University is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, disability, national or ethnic origin, race or color, religion, sex or sexual orientation. As the state university of New Jersey, Rutgers offers significant benefits packages. The application deadline is August 1, 2008. Selected applicants will be invited to campus for presentations to the faculty. Applicants should submit a cover letter, resume, three references who can comment on teaching or conferencing and writing ability, a writing sample, and samples of teaching materials, if any. Applications should be sent to Clin. Prof. Sarah Ricks, at the address in this posting.