Director of Tulane Law School Criminal Justice Clinic

Director of Tulane Law School Criminal Justice Clinic

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TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW seeks highly qualified applicants for a full-time clinical faculty position leading its Criminal Justice Clinic. The position would preferably begin in January of 2026 and would be on the Law School's Clinical Professor faculty track, beginning as a Clinical Professor of Law or a Clinical Associate Professor of Law, depending on the experience of the candidate.

The initial appointment for the position is five years. Clinical faculty have voting rights as set forth in the Faculty Handbook and serve on faculty committees within the School of Law.

The Criminal Justice Clinic’s core mission is to provide rich student learning opportunities for its students, helping them develop concrete lawyering skills through a robust criminal defense practice that includes investigation, pre-trial practice, trial, appeal, post-conviction, and federal habeas. The Criminal Justice Clinic also partners with the Domestic Violence Clinic on the Women’s Prison Project, so its faculty work with cases and students in both programs.

The candidate who fills the position will have primary responsibility for directing the Criminal Justice Clinic; engaging in case selection, litigation, and other advocacy to shape and promote the clinic’s mission and goals; supervising clinic students in all aspects of the clinic’s work; teaching a related subject-matter seminar; and managing development activities in support of the clinic.

• Seniority level:
  Director
• Employment type:
  
  Full-time
• Job function:
  Education and Training
• Industry: Higher Education