Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor

Overview

Tulane University Law School seeks to hire full or part-time Visiting Clinical Assistant Professors in at least 2 of its seven clinical programs, including in the Domestic Violence Clinic, the Women’s Prison Project, the First Amendment Clinic, and/or the Environmental Law Clinic. Run by full-time faculty, the law schools clinical programs are among the most robust experiential learning programs in the nation for law students and exemplify the Universitys strong culture of public service.

Tulanes clinics provide a capstone learning experience for law students, while modeling the legal professions 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 representation to clients under Louisianas student practice rule. Students enroll for a full academic year.

Clinic faculty engage in hands-on, intensive supervision of complex litigation requiring subject matter expertise in areas such as: gender-based violence, family law, civil litigation, criminal law and practice, criminal defense and/or post-conviction practice (DV Clinic and WPP);
First Amendment law, federal trial practice (First Amendment Clinic); environmental law, administrative law (Environmental Law Clinic), and more.

• Directly represent clinic clients;
• Supervise student attorneys engaged in direct representation of clients;
• Work with the respective clinic director to advance the Clinics 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;
• Perform other responsibilities as determined by the respective clinic director.

Most appointments will be made for a 1-year period aligning with the 2025-26 academic year but may vary by candidate and clinic. A one-year appointment includes year-round case management responsibilities, with no teaching obligations in the summer. For more information about specific clinics, visit the hyperlinks above.