Closing Date: 31st August, 2024
Description:
Position Description:
The Berkeley Law International Human Rights Law Clinic (IHRLC) seeks applications for a Clinical Supervising Staff Attorney position. Under the supervision of the Clinical Director and in collaboration with the current Clinical Supervising Attorney, the Supervising Attorney's general responsibilities include training and supervising students in client representation; working on the clinic's docket of projects and cases, developing and managing one or more legal cases or projects per semester independently (i.e., without a co-supervisor); and performing varied administrative and other tasks to assist in IHRLC's and Clinical Program's operation.
IHRLC advances human rights at home and abroad through litigation, documentation, evidence-based policy work, and client-centered advocacy on a range of cases and urgent issues. One of the oldest human rights clinics in the country, the clinic has pioneered a client-centered, multidisciplinary, collaborative approach to its work. Students hold perpetrators of mass violence accountable in international and domestic courts, fight for justice for migrants at the border and immigrants in our community, and protect human rights defenders under threat from authoritarian regimes.
IHRLC is committed to preparing law students from diverse backgrounds and providing first-rate legal services to underrepresented individuals, marginalized communities, and public interest organizations. The Clinical Program is committed to building an equitable and inclusive faculty and staff to teach and work in a multicultural and antiracist learning environment. The law school provides support for Supervising Attorneys to attend conferences that advance their professional development goals and interests.
Duties:
Under the supervision of the Clinical Director and in collaboration with the current Clinical Supervising Attorney, the Supervising Attorney will be responsible for:
The Berkeley Law International Human Rights Law Clinic (IHRLC) seeks applications for a Clinical Supervising Staff Attorney position. Under the supervision of the Clinical Director and in collaboration with the current Clinical Supervising Attorney, the Supervising Attorney's general responsibilities include training and supervising students in client representation; working on the clinic's docket of projects and cases, developing and managing one or more legal cases or projects per semester independently (i.e., without a co-supervisor); and performing varied administrative and other tasks to assist in IHRLC's and Clinical Program's operation.
IHRLC advances human rights at home and abroad through litigation, documentation, evidence-based policy work, and client-centered advocacy on a range of cases and urgent issues. One of the oldest human rights clinics in the country, the clinic has pioneered a client-centered, multidisciplinary, collaborative approach to its work. Students hold perpetrators of mass violence accountable in international and domestic courts, fight for justice for migrants at the border and immigrants in our community, and protect human rights defenders under threat from authoritarian regimes.
IHRLC is committed to preparing law students from diverse backgrounds and providing first-rate legal services to underrepresented individuals, marginalized communities, and public interest organizations. The Clinical Program is committed to building an equitable and inclusive faculty and staff to teach and work in a multicultural and antiracist learning environment. The law school provides support for Supervising Attorneys to attend conferences that advance their professional development goals and interests.
Duties:
Under the supervision of the Clinical Director and in collaboration with the current Clinical Supervising Attorney, the Supervising Attorney will be responsible for:
Clinical Supervision and Advocacy (80%)
Administrative Duties (15%)
Other Duties as Assigned (5%)
Perform other duties as needed
- Train, teach, and supervise six to eight clinic students per semester
- Manage existing clinic projects and cases and develop new clinic projects and cases
- Develop and maintain clinic relationships with clients, partners, co-counsel, and other stakeholders
- Travel to offsite meetings as needed to work on clinic matters (often with students)
- Attend and assist in teaching of the weekly clinic seminar, including the developing and teaching new seminar sessions, on an as-needed basis
- Manage the clinic docket during summers, winter break, and faculty leaves
- Helping maintain clinic and client files, course materials, website, and social media feeds
- Organize programmatic events, such as conferences, workshops, and speaker series
- Promote the clinic to students and other constituencies
- Engage in media relations and development
- Serve on Clinical Program and law school committees
- Speak at public events and with the press, and otherwise participate in professional networking, training, and development activities
Perform other duties as needed
UC Field Work Supervisors are academic appointees in an organized bargaining unit and are exclusively represented by the American Federation of Teachers - Unit 18.
You can read more about the clinic's matters and staff, here: https://www.law.berkeley.edu/experiential/clinics/international-human-rights-law-clinic/about-the-clinic/
Labor Contract: https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/labor/bargaining-units/ix/index.html
Qualifications:
Additional qualifications (required at time of start)
Preferred Qualifications:
You can read more about the clinic's matters and staff, here: https://www.law.berkeley.edu/experiential/clinics/international-human-rights-law-clinic/about-the-clinic/
Labor Contract: https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/labor/bargaining-units/ix/index.html
Qualifications:
- Basic qualifications (required at time of application)
- J.D. degree, or equivalent international degree
- Admission to practice law in at least one jurisdiction
- Three (3) years of professional work experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- Five (5) or more years of human rights practice experience
- Demonstrated ability to engage in multimodal advocacy initiatives including litigation, fact-finding, policy advocacy, and empirical studies
- Excellent analytical, communication, organizational, and planning skills
- Willingness to work on IHRLC's full range of cases and projects
- Career intention to practice in public interest, public sector, and/or clinical setting
- Substantive knowledge and experience with international human rights standards and institutions, particularly with the African, European, or universal human rights systems
- Experience in clinical teaching, mentoring law students and new attorneys, or as a clinical law student
- Experience working in collaborative partnerships with marginalized or disenfranchised communities, clients, and other stakeholders
- Ability to develop and manage cases and projects and supervise students independently
- Second language abilities
