Job Opening: Clinical Teaching Fellow at Cardozo

CLINICAL IMMIGRATION FELLOWSHIP

The Cardozo School of Law’s Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic is interested in hiring an attorney as a Clinical Teaching Fellow to begin in December 2024. Past fellows have generally had 3–5 years of practice experience prior to coming to the clinic and have generally worked with the clinic for 2–3 years. The annual salary for fellows is $75,000 with full benefits.

The Fellow’s core responsibilities would include a combination of the following:

• work on deportation defense or related cases in the immigration, federal, and state courts;

• work on impact litigation and advocacy projects with immigrant community-based and national advocacy organizations;

• supervision of clinic students on litigation and advocacy projects;

• assistance in teaching and administering the clinic seminar; and primary responsibility for the clinic docket during the summer session.

In addition, the Fellow would have significant autonomy to construct their own docket of relevant work in accordance with their interests and would have the opportunity to take part in the academic life of the law school. This position is ideal for candidates interested in the substantive areas of immigration or criminal law, candidates interested in transitioning from direct service to impact work, candidates seeking supervisory experience, and/or candidates interested in careers in clinical teaching. Past fellows have gone on to positions as clinical professors, executive directors of non-profits, managing attorneys of direct service immigration practices, and leadership positions in government, including a former fellow who was recently appointed to the Board of Immigration Appeals.

The Immigration Justice Clinic at Cardozo is an in-house year-long intensive live client clinic in which students represent immigrants in a variety of matters. Individual cases most frequently involve deportation/removal proceedings in the immigration and federal courts. Substantively, the clinic’s docket focuses primarily on immigrants facing deportation because of encounters with the criminal legal system and more generally on immigration enforcement issues. In addition, students and fellows have the opportunity to represent immigrant community-based and national advocacy organizations engaged in impact projects on cutting-edge immigration issues. Impact litigation and legislative advocacy are mainstays of the clinic’s docket. You can learn more about the clinic under the “Learn About Our Work” link at http://www.cardozo.yu.edu/immigrationjusticeclinic.

The clinic directors, Peter L. Markowitz and Lindsay Nash, are full-time members of the Cardozo faculty and will be responsible for mentoring, training, and supervising the Fellow.

To apply, please send a cover letter, resume, and list of at least three references (ideally academic and professional) to: Linda Falk at immigration.justice.cardozo@gmail.com as soon as possible. Please put “IJC Fellowship” in the subject line. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.