Clinical Assistant or Associate Professor - Tulane Environmental Law Clinic

Clinical Assistant or Associate Professor – Tulane Environmental Law Clinic

Tulane University Law School seeks to hire a full‑time Clinical Assistant or Associate Professor of Law for its Environmental Law Clinic. The clinic, run by full‑time faculty, ranks among the nation’s most robust experiential learning programs and exemplifies the Law School’s strong culture of public service.

Clinics provide a capstone learning experience for law students and model the legal profession’s core values. Through these programs, Tulane law students learn essential lawyering skills and provide free, exemplary legal advocacy to clients under Louisiana’s student practice rule. Students enroll for a full academic year.

Founded in 1989, the Environmental Law Clinic has provided free legal representation on environmental and public access issues to hundreds of low‑income individuals, community groups, and environmental groups in Louisiana, including fence‑line communities along the Mississippi River industrial corridor and in southwest Louisiana.

Clinical faculty engage in intensive, hands‑on supervision of complex litigation requiring subject‑matter expertise in civil litigation, state and federal appellate practice, environmental law, and administrative law.

• Supervise student attorneys engaged in direct representation of clients;
• Work with the Clinic Director to advance the clinic’s goals, identify docket priorities, screen and select cases, and manage student attorney workflow;
• Meet regularly with student attorneys, individually and in teams, to assist their case planning, provide feedback, and support their development of lawyering skills and professional identity formation;
• Engage in service to the Law School as a full‑time member of the faculty.

The position has year‑round case‑management responsibilities with no teaching obligations in the summer.

Seniority level: Entry level

Employment type: Full‑time

Job function: Legal Services