Lecturer and Co-Director, ICLC

Overview

Academic Job Category: Faculty Bargaining

Job Title: Lecturer and Co-Director, Indigenous Community Legal Clinic (ICLC)

Department: Faculty | Peter

A. Allard School of Law (Ngai Pindell)

Posting End Date: March 8, 2026

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the Posting End Date.

Job End Date: July 31, 2027

The expected pay range for this position is $150,000 - $200,000 per annum.

At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.

Peter

A. Allard School of Law

The University of British Columbia – Vancouver Campus

Lecturer Appointment (full-time)

The Peter

A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia seeks to appoint a full-time Lecturer and Co-Director, Indigenous Community Legal Clinic (ICLC).

Term: This is a one year term appointment. This position is eligible for renewal on demonstration of teaching excellence, subject to budgetary availability and operational needs.

We expect the appointment to commence August 1, 2026 with a competitive salary commensurate with the qualifications. The expected salary range is $ - $ per annum. This position is within the UBC Faculty Association bargaining unit and is subject to the terms of the Collective Agreement between UBC and UBCFA.

This position is an opportunity to provide educational, strategic and organizational leadership in a unique legal and academic setting. The position will, together with other clinic lawyers, be responsible for the day-to-day supervision and mentorship of law students in case file work which provides critical legal services to an underrepresented population. More broadly, the position will ensure the academic integrity and coherence of the student experience across the experiential and classroom elements of the program;

and, in consultation with stakeholders in the law school and community, help identify objectives, priorities and opportunities that will set the vision and direction of the ICLC for the medium to long term, including the development of an Indigenous service model.

The Peter

A. Allard School of Law, one of Canada's leading law schools, is committed to excellence in legal education and research. As part of an outstanding public university, situated on traditional, ancestral and unceded Musqueam lands in one of the most open, diverse and beautiful places in the world, we offer an inspiring environment that combines rigorous professional legal education with an awareness of the role of law in society and a commitment to the rule of law and access to justice.

Further information about the Allard School of Law can be found at:

INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY LEGAL CLINIC (ICLC)

The ICLC at the Peter

A. Allard School of Law is located in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəyə̓m (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlil̓wətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. The ICLC has served the community for over twenty-five years with Allard Law students providing legal services to Indigenous clients under the supervision of staff lawyers. The ICLC’s primary purpose is educational: to provide law students with an opportunity to use their substantive understanding of law in a experiential setting.

This clinical setting allows students to gain practice skills along with a deeper understanding of professional ethics and professional responsibility. Students who participate in the clinic often speak of it as a highlight of their legal education and a formative experience in learning about themselves, the community and the practice of law.

A complementary objective of the program is to promote access to justice for an underrepresented population. The ICLC offers to the Indigenous community information, referral and on-site and remote access to legal services. The ICLC seeks to provide comprehensive legal services,…