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Posted: 18-Nov-21
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Type: Full-time
Salary: Open

Assistant/Associate/Full Clinical ProfessorAbout Northeastern:Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experience-driven lifelong learning. Our world-renowned experiential approach empowers our students, faculty, alumni, and partners to create impact far beyond the confines of discipline, degree, and campus.
Our locations-in Boston; Charlotte, North Carolina; London; Portland, Maine; San Francisco; Seattle; Silicon Valley; Toronto; Vancouver; and the Massachusetts communities of Burlington and Nahant-are nodes in our growing global university system. Through this network, we expand opportunities for flexible, student-centered learning and collaborative, solutions-focused research.
Northeastern's comprehensive array of undergraduate and graduate programs- in a variety of on-campus and online formats-lead to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools. Among these, we offer more than 195 multi-discipline majors and degrees designed to prepare students for purposeful lives and careers.
About the Opportunity:Northeastern University School of Law is seeking applicants for a full-time clinical professor position. This position would begin during the 2022-2023 academic year and would be on the law school's clinical professor track, which culminates in long-term renewable contracts. The attorney who fills the position will have primary responsible for teaching and supervising the well-established Community Business Clinic.
The clinic provides services to low-income and other underserved entrepreneurs in the Boston metropolitan area who need assistance with legal issues commonly encountered by start-up businesses, including choice of entity, employee status, supplier contracts, and regulatory hurdles. The clinic also serves as a source of advice for undergraduate entrepreneurs. The pedagogical goals of the clinic involve teaching transactional law practice as well as providing students with a rich experience in representing marginalized clients. The Clinician's primary role is to teach transactional skills to upper level law students in the clinic and to supervise them in the provision of legal services to clinic clients.
The Law School draws clients from a range of organizations in the community, including the university, community development corporations, and non-profit and for-profit organizations that provide funding and support to start-up businesses. The Clinician works with these organizations to promote the work of the clinic in the community to recruit appropriate clients, and to provide excellent service to those clients.
Responsibilities:Operating community business clinic, and obligations consistent with faculty workload policy.
Qualifications:Applicants must hold a JD or comparable degree from an accredited institution by the appointment start date (e.g. JD, LLB or foreign equivalent). The candidate must also have at least three years of transactional law practice experience and expertise in teaching/training and career mentoring. Individual must be admitted to or eligible for admission to the Massachusetts bar. Candidates should demonstrate a commitment to social justice.
Preferred Qualifications:Experience in community organizing and grant writing is a plus.
Salary Grade: FAC
Additional Information:Each candidate should submit a curriculum vitae or resume, a list of references, and a cover letter that includes a detailed description of the candidate's relevant practice, teaching experience, proposed clinic, and course evaluations from prior teaching experience if any. Other material relevant to the candidacy may be included as well.
Northeastern University has a strong tradition of diversity and accessibility. The search committee is especially interested in qualified candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community through their research, teaching, and/or service. We encourage applications from racial and ethnic minorities, persons with disabilities and members of the LGBTQ community. We also encourage applicants to share how their background and experience will contribute to the Northeastern community.
We continue to enthusiastically welcome nominations and applications from members of groups that have been underrepresented in academia. Successful candidates will have demonstrated commitment to fostering diverse and inclusive environments as well as to promoting experiential learning, which are central to a Northeastern University education.
Northeastern University is an equal opportunity employer, seeking to recruit and support a broadly diverse community of faculty and staff. Northeastern values and celebrates diversity in all its forms and strives to foster an inclusive culture built on respect that affirms inter-group relations and builds cohesion.
All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
To learn more about Northeastern University's commitment and support of diversity and inclusion, please see
www.northeastern.edu/diversity.
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