What are the responsibilities and job description for the Visiting Assistant Clinical Professor/ Visiting Clinical Professor 2025-2026 position at University of California - Irvine?
https://sites.uci.edu/academicpersonnel/files/2022/08/prof-AY.pdf
Open date: July 29, 2024
Next review date: Monday, Sep 30, 2024 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee.
Final date: Monday, Mar 31, 2025 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Applications will continue to be accepted until this date, but those received after the review date will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled.
THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE SCHOOL OF LAW invites applications for the role of Visiting Assistant Clinical Professor/Visiting Clinical Professor for the following semesters: Spring 2025, Fall 2025, and Spring 2026.
For Spring 2025 (1/1/2025-06/30/2025), we are in search of a Visiting Assistant Clinical Professor/Visiting Clinical Professor to co-teach in our Community and Economic Development (CED) Clinic. The CED Clinic focuses on issues of community and economic development in low-and moderate-income populations, emphasizing non-adversarial, transactional approaches to advocacy. Clinic students primarily represent organizational clients, including residential organizations in mobile home parks, non-profits and small businesses. For more information about the Clinic, visit: https://www.law.uci.edu/academics/real-life-learning/clinics/ced.html.
For Fall 2025 and Spring 2026 (7/1/2025-6/30/2026), we are in search of a Visiting Assistant Clinical Professor/Visiting Clinical Professor to co-teach in our Domestic Violence Clinic (DVC). The DVC works to provide holistic, client-centered, culturally sensitive services to abuse survivors, including in restraining order and family law trials as well as immigration matters. Students also engage in community education and policy advocacy projects to produce broader systemic change around the complex problem of domestic violence. For more information about the Clinic, visit: https://www.law.uci.edu/academics/real-lifelearning/clinics/dvc/.
Alternatively, the Visiting Assistant Clinical Professor/Visiting Clinical Professor for Fall 2025 and/or Spring 2026 may teach in one of UCI Law's other core clinics.
Successful candidates will be appointed a Visiting Assistant Clinical Professor or Visiting Clinical Professor, depending on experience. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. Applicants should have at least 5-7 years of legal practice and/or teaching experience in the relevant practice area. Applicants must hold a J.D. degree or equivalent from an accredited institution and be a member of a state bar. In addition, they must have demonstrated potential for excellence in clinical teaching.
GENERAL INFORMATION
Founded just over a decade ago, the UC Irvine School of Law is a visionary law school focused on training talented and passionate lawyers and driven by professional excellence, intellectual rigor, and a commitment to enrich our communities through public service. In keeping with this mission, the Law School has a dynamic and innovative clinical program. The cornerstone of the clinical program is a core clinical course that fulfills the graduation requirement for a semester of clinical education. Students may also enroll in a core clinic for additional semesters. In the years since the creation of the first core clinics, the number has grown from three to the current ten:
Ninth Circuit Appellate Litigation Clinic (ALC)
Civil Rights Litigation Clinic (CRLC)
Community and Economic Development Clinic (CED)
Criminal Justice Clinic (CJC)
Domestic Violence Clinic (DVC)
Environmental Law Clinic (ELC)
Immigrant Rights Clinic (IRC)
Intellectual Property, Arts, and Technology Clinic (IPAT)
International Justice Clinic (IJC)
Workers, Law, and Organizing Clinic (WLOC)
Each core clinic is taught by one or more full-time faculty often joined by one or more adjunct faculty or lecturers. The Law School also currently offers the following elective clinics:
California State Tax Clinic
Consumer Law Clinic (CLC)
International Human Rights Clinic (IHRC)
Reproductive Justice Clinic (RJC)
Startup and Small Business Clinic (SSBC)
UCI Law is the newest public law school in California and has been ranked one of the best law schools in the nation for multiple years in a row. We are also ranked one of the top schools for practical training and No. 5 in the nation for greatest resources for minoritized students. The Law School aims to prepare students for the practice of law at the highest levels of the profession, combining the best of a large and renowned academic institution with a collegial, supportive, and friendly environment. For more information, visit:https://www.law.uci.edu/academics/real-life-learning/clinics/.
Candidates who wish to be considered for this position should submit a cover letter and updated curriculum vitae, a list of references and a statement of past and/or potential contributions to diversity (see UCI's Commitment to Inclusive Excellence) here: https://recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09205.
Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the positions are filled.
School: https://recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09205
Juris Doctor degree
Curriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V.
Cover Letter
Statement of Research (Optional)
Inclusive Excellence Activities Statement - Statement addressing how past and/or potential contributions to inclusive excellence will advance UCI's Commitment to Inclusive Excellence. See our guidance for writing an inclusive excellence activities statement.
Misc / Additional (Optional)
Teaching Statement (Optional)
Sexual Misconduct, Harassment and Discrimination Declaration Form - All applicants of academic positions at the University of California, Irvine must download, complete, sign, and upload the following form with their application: Sexual Misconduct, Harassment and Discrimination Declaration Form
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The University of California, Irvine is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer advancing inclusive excellence. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected categories covered by the UC anti-discrimination policy.
As a University employee, you will be required to comply with all applicable University policies and/or collective bargaining agreements, as may be amended from time to time. Federal, state, or local government directives may impose additional requirements.
The University of California, Irvine is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer advancing inclusive excellence. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected categories covered by the UC nondiscrimination policy.
