Fellowship: George Washington University Law School, Visiting Associate Professor of Law and Environmental & Energy Law Program Fellow (Deadline: Feb. 21, 2020, Washington, DC)
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Fellowship: NYU School of Law, Institute for Policy Integrity, Legal Fellow (Deadline: February 21, 2020, New York City)
Fellowship: University of Miami School of Law, Environmental Justice Clinic Mysun Fellow (Deadline: January 31, 2020, Miami, FL)
Fellowship starts May 2020.
“This is a one-year fellowship (with the possibility of renewal) based in University of Miami School of Law’s Environmental Justice Clinic. For more information on how to join our team and on our cutting edge work, please go to: https://tinyurl.com/ejcmysunapp The deadline to apply is January 31, 2020.
The University of Miami School of Law’s Environmental Justice Clinic advocates for and seeks to empower low-and moderate-income communities who disproportionately bear the environmental, economic, and health burdens of the development, implementation, and enforcement of the law. Employing a community lawyering approach, we seek systemic change for our clients through advocacy, public policy resources, rights education, and transactional assistance. Our work sits at the intersection of civil rights, environmental, poverty, and public health law, tackling issues in South Florida including climate change, displacement, contamination, environmental health, municipal equity, and more. Increasingly, we view our work through the lens of climate change, one of the most significant social justice issues of our time, and which will be felt most acutely by the poor and marginalized.”
Position: Univ. Colorado Law School, Natural Resource, Energy, and Environmental Clinic, Clinical Professor (Deadline: open until filled, Boulder, CO))
“The University of Colorado is looking for a permanent clinical professor for our Natural Resources, Energy, and Environmental Clinic. The clinic’s mission and vision allow for the clinical professor to cultivate a diverse docket of cases and projects, including matters addressing environmental and climate justice as well as traditional litigation and agency advocacy.”
Law Clerkship: New York University Law School, Institute for Policy Integrity (Deadline: Jan. 15, NY City)
Clerkships for summer 2020.
Position: Pace Law School, Visiting Assistant Professor in Environmental Law (Deadline: Dec. 20, 2019, White Plains, NY)
From my emails:
Visiting Assistant Professor (VAP) in Environmental Law at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University
The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University seeks applicants for a Visiting Assistant Professor (VAP) in Environmental Law. The VAP in Environmental Law will hold a one-year appointment, renewable for a second one-year term. The appointment is designed to mentor and train future environmental law professors and prepare them for the law school teaching market. Pace defines environmental law broadly and welcomes candidates with interdisciplinary interests and approaches to environmental law.
The VAP will have a teaching load of one course per semester and the opportunity to focus on scholarly research and writing. The VAP will receive the same office and administrative support as other faculty members, is invited to participate fully in faculty activities, and will receive a small travel and research fund. Additionally, the VAP will present a work-in-progress at Pace Law’s Future Environmental Law Professors Workshop, receive feedback and mentoring from other scholars, and present a finished manuscript to the faculty at our weekly scholarly colloquium.
Candidates will be selected based on their prior work and educational experience, and teaching and scholarly potential. Pace is committed to achieving equal opportunity in all aspects of University life. Applications are encouraged from people of color, individuals of varied sexual and affectional orientations, individuals who are differently-abled, veterans of the armed forces or national service, and anyone whose background and experience will contribute to the diversity of the law school.
Applicants should submit:
- Cover letter (discussing qualifications and interests)
- Curriculum Vitae (that lists three references and law school courses the candidate would be interested in teaching)
- Law school transcript
- One published scholarly article or an unpublished paper draft or prospectus that reflects the candidate’s scholarly interests and potential
Applications should be received by Friday, December 20, 2019, but will be considered thereafter until the position is filled.
If you would like to be considered for a Visiting Assistant Professor in Environmental Law appointment beginning in the Fall of 2020, please send your application materials via email to Jennifer Chin at jchin2@law.pace.edu. Please direct any questions to Professor Margot Pollans at mpollans@law.pace.edu. Only electronic submissions will be accepted.
Fellowship: Columbia University Law School, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law (Deadline: Jan. 15, 2020, New York City)
The Sabin Center is looking for two new fellows:
“First, a one-year fellow to begin immediately, who will focus on researching and writing about climate litigation, including the relationship between attribution science and new and emerging areas of litigation. This person should have received their JD or LLM within the last 3 years.
Second, a two-year fellow to begin in September, whose work will cover a wide range of adaptation- and mitigation-related topics. This person could be within 3 years of graduation, or with a few more years of experience. The application deadline is January 15.
Details on both positions may be found here: https://climate.law.columbia.edu/content/jobs-sabin-center#/text-128.”
