Full-time

Description

Job ID

AF9918-0505-1896

Position Classification

FT Administrator

Position Summary

The University of Detroit Mercy School of Law Clinical Fellows Program seeks applicants for a fellowship in its Environmental Law Clinic. This is an in-person, two-year appointment.

The Detroit Mercy Law Environmental Law Clinic is a partnership between Detroit Mercy Law and the Great Lakes Environmental Law Center. The Clinic is taught and directed by the Center’s Executive Director, an environmental law attorney and expert in the field.

The Center is a Detroit-based nonprofit that seeks to protect air, land, and water for our communities by providing legal services to low-income residents and non-profit environmental organizations in Michigan and the Great Lakes region. We create solutions to environmental issues impacting the health and quality of life of our communities. The Center and Clinic work for sustainable, healthy, and vibrant communities where people have clean air to breathe, safe and affordable water to drink, and beautiful, natural spaces for recreation. Currently, the Center’s work focuses on five primary environmental issues: air quality; drinking water quality and affordability; clean rivers, lakes, and streams; the sustainable re-use of vacant land in urban areas through things like urban agriculture and renewable energy, and promoting and advocating for state and federal agencies to ensure compliance with environmental laws and regulations. In the Clinic, students learn how to affect regulatory policy at the local, state, and federal levels and apply environmental law and policy to client matters and to solve emerging environmental problems. Students work on Center matters and impact litigation in agencies, legislatures and state and federal courts. The course focuses on client issues related to air pollution, water pollution, environmental justice, transportation, and citizen suit enforcement.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

We seek an Environmental Law Clinic Fellow to lead client matters while providing skills training, and lectures to law students in the Clinic, and working closely with the School of Law and Center.
The Clinical Fellows Program is designed to support attorneys wishing to explore the possibility of a career in clinical teaching. University of Detroit Mercy Law Clinical Fellows gain valuable experience and mentoring in clinical pedagogy and in their substantive area of practice. Their job duties include clinical teaching and student supervision with clinic directors and participation in the operation and development of the clinic they teach in.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications

Education – A Doctorate degree from ABA accredited law school (No substitute).
Employment – Two year to five year

Candidates must hold a J.D. degree from an American Bar Association accredited law school and be eligible for licensure in Michigan. They should have at least two years of experience relevant to the Clinic’s work, a commitment to public interest lawyering, and potential for scholarship and success as a clinical teacher. Candidates must be able to work independently and as part of a team and show a commitment to teaching and working in a multicultural environment. Strong writing skills are required.

Physical Requirements

Job may require lifting light weight objects (1 to 10 pounds) with no repetitive bending or stooping. Occasionally lift average weight objects (1 to 10 pounds).

Work Environment

Regular exposure to favorable conditions such as those found in a normal office.

Salary/Pay Information

Commensurate with experience

Anticipated Schedule

TBD

Special Instructions

A cover letter is required for consideration for this position and should be attached as the first page of your resume or Curriculum Vitae. The cover letter should address your specific interest in the position and outline skills and experience that directly relate to it. A writing sample is also required.

Additional Information

At the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, our dedication to academic excellence for the public good is inseparable from our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. UDM Law is committed to recruiting, selecting, and retaining a diverse and highly engaged staff community.

Employee Benefits

At the University of Detroit Mercy, we continually strive to provide a high-quality, comprehensive benefits package to our valued employees. We offer our employees the following benefits:

· Medical -

o Three health plans to choose from with a large national provider network

· Dental -

o UDM’s School of Dentistry FREE to you and your dependents

o Option to purchase additional dental plan through UNUM

· Vision -

o Exams and lenses every 12 months

· Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Accounts offered.

· Employee Assistance Program -

o Provided to everyone in your household.

· Short-Term and Long-Term Disability.

· Life and AD&D -

o One times base salary up to a hundred thousand dollars.

· Option to purchase additional life insurance, accident insurance, and/or critical illness insurance

· Tuition Remission Benefit for you, your spouse, and children.

· Retirement Plan -

o UDM provides matches up to 8%

Michigan’s largest, most comprehensive private University, University of Detroit Mercy is an independent Catholic institution of higher education sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy and Society of Jesus. Detroit Mercy seeks qualified candidates who will contribute to the University’s mission, diversity, and excellence of its academic community. University of Detroit Mercy is an Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action Employer with a diverse student body and welcomes persons of all backgrounds.

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