Description:
Brief Description of Duties:THE UNIVERSITY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DAVID A. CLARKE SCHOOL OF LAW (UDC LAW) invites applications for a FULL-TIME Visiting Legal Writing Instructor for the 2026-27 academic year. The successful candidate will work with the Director of Legal Writing and three other full-time instructors to implement, revise, and enhance the legal writing curriculum.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Develop and teach either two sections of the required first-year Lawyering Process course (14 18 students per section) or one section of the first-year course and one section of the required upper-level Appellate Advocacy course. Opportunities to teach an upper-level writing seminar may be available depending on curricular needs.
- Incorporate pedagogical techniques, including flipped classrooms, peer review, and digital tools.
- Grade assignments with detailed, individualized feedback and regularly hold student conferences.
- Assist in teaching workshops in the Writing Hub, an interactive writing center open to all students.
- Collaborate with colleagues to revise and enhance the legal writing curriculum.
- Mentor students on writing-intensive projects like law review notes, moot court briefs, and moot court competitions.
- Provide academic advising and career guidance, especially for students interested in litigation or judicial clerkships.
- Serve on faculty committees and contribute to the intellectual and community life of the law school.
Minimum Job Requirements:
- An earned Juris Doctor degree and a member in good standing of the Bar of the District of Columbia or another jurisdiction.
- Excellent legal writing and analytical skills.
- Experience in law practice or a judicial clerkship.
- Demonstrated teaching excellence and a record of scholarship.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills.
Information to Applicant
Collective Bargaining Unit (Non-Union): This position is not in the collective bargaining unit.