Environmental Law Clinic: Clinical Professor & Case Mentor

Tulane University Law School seeks to hire a full-time Clinical Assistant or Associate Professor of Law in its Environmental Law Clinic. Run by full-time faculty, the law school’s clinical programs are among the most robust experiential learning programs in the nation for law students and exemplify the Law School’s strong culture of public service.

Tulane’s clinics provide a capstone learning experience for law students, while modeling the legal profession’s core values and responsibilities to serve people of limited means. 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 is among the earliest waves of environmental law clinics in the country and is a key component to Tulane Law School's nationally ranked Environmental Law program. Since its inception, TELC 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 disproportionately impacted 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 areas such as: civil litigation, state and federal appellate practice, environmental law, and administrative law.

The Clinical Assistant Or Associate Professor Of Law Will

• Supervise student attorneys engaged in direct representation of clients;
• Work with the respective 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; and
• Engage in service to the Law School as a full-time member of the faculty.