Location
Newton, MA
Open Date
Dec 23, 2021
Description
Boston College Law School seeks applicants for a two-year term for a Clinical Visiting Assistant Professorship for academic years 2022-2024. The Visiting Assistant Professorship will allow the candidate to gain clinical teaching, research, and writing experience, and prepare for the law school teaching market. Candidates should indicate a desire to work alongside our clinical faculty in one of the Law School’s existing clinics.
The Clinical VAP will teach in one of the Law School’s existing clinics that best fits the clinician’s research and teaching interests. In addition, the clinician will be assigned a primary senior faculty mentor to provide advice and support on teaching, scholarship, and preparation for the legal academic teaching market. Clinical VAPs participate fully in the life of BC Law, including but not limited to attendance at faculty workshops, opportunities to workshop papers and present at BC Law’s Junior Faculty Forum, and access to teaching support through Boston College’s Center for Teaching Excellence.
This position requires in-person teaching and the Clinical VAP is expected to be in full-time residence at BC Law during the academic year. Boston College Law School prioritizes those whose clinical teaching includes issues relating to race and the law or whose work addresses causes of and solutions to structural racism.
This Clinical VAP appointment is for two years. Scholars will be appointed at the rank of Visiting Assistant Professor of Law. The salary, benefits and research support will be competitive with other well-regarded law fellowship and VAP programs.
Qualifications
Educational Qualifications:
- A JD or equivalent (including LLM or JSD)
- Admitted to and in good standing to a state bar
Required Qualifications:
- Strong potential for excellence in clinical legal teaching;
- Three years of relevant practice experience (excluding clerkship)
- Strong potential for excellence in legal scholarship or systemic law reform;
- Demonstrated contributions to diversity, equity and inclusion; and
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
Application Instructions
To apply, an applicant should submit the following through http://apply.interfolio.com/100773:
- Cover letter, including a statement of applicant’s desire to supervise in one of the Law School’s clinics
- CV
- Diversity statement
- Graduate and professional transcripts (including law school transcripts)
- Three references
Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. For more information, please contact Mary Holper, Associate Dean for Experiential Learning, at [email protected].
Application Process
This institution is using Interfolio’s Faculty Search to conduct this search. Applicants to this position receive a free Dossier account and can send all application materials, including confidential letters of recommendation, free of charge.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Boston College conducts pre-employment background checks as part of the hiring process and requires all its employees to be fully vaccinated and boosted for COVID-19.
Boston College is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. In concert with our Jesuit, Catholic mission, Boston College is dedicated to the goal of building a culturally diverse and pluralistic faculty and staff committed to teaching and working in a multicultural environment and strongly encourages applications for women, minorities, individuals with disabilities, and covered veterans.
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