Description:
A Public Research University seeks a dynamic and creative educator to serve as the Director of Externships to ensure the School's externships and other field-based learning opportunities are of consistently high quality, further the Law School's strategic vision, and respond to student interests and community needs. The Director of Externships is also framed at the rank of Assistant or Associate Teaching Professor of Law, due to the expectation that the instructor will teach the required companion courses.A Public Research University allows law students to gain valuable legal experience while earning academic credit. An externship is an experiential learning course available to all LL.M. students and J.D. students who have completed one full academic year of law school. Students engage in substantial lawyering activities under the supervision of a licensed judge or attorney at various host sites. Through externships, students get out of the classroom and work in the field, handling real legal work, developing legal skills and substantive knowledge of the law, solving legal problems in real-life situations, and learning daily activities of legal practice.
Responsibilities:
- Manage and further develop a robust, high-quality externship program that furthers the School of Law's curricular and pedagogical goals and meets the standards of the ABA and other regulatory bodies:
- Recruit excellent field placement supervisors;
- Develop training programs and materials and conduct workshops to support externship seminar teachers and field placement supervisors;
- Regularly evaluate externship seminars and field placements, including through classroom observation and site visits;
- In consultation with the Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and the Associate Dean for Experiential Education, develop new externship opportunities;
- Advise students about externship opportunities, counseling them about the externships most likely to meet their goals, and helping them to resolve and learn from any problems that arise in the course of their externships;
- Advise students and identify resources to help students arrange independent externships and secure faculty supervisors;
- Integrating LLM and MJ students into the externship program and coordinating with the Associate Dean for Global and Graduate Programs on international student rules and other relevant concerns
- Teach or co-teach the externship's required companion seminar and other courses as needed.
- As part of the law school's experiential team, work closely with the Associate Dean for Experiential Education, the Program Manager, and instructors teaching clinical and experiential courses to offer a varied curriculum that meets the students' needs for the development of professional roles and lawyering skills and that responds to student demand, and on recruiting, application, and admission for experiential programs.
- Engage in the life of the Law School by serving on committees and task forces related to externships, participating in meetings of experiential faculty, etc.
- Perform additional responsibilities as required.
Qualifications:
- Juris Doctor (J.D.) or foreign equivalent
- Admitted to Washington Bar or ability to become admitted within one year.