YALE LAW SCHOOL seeks applications for the Curtis-Liman Clinical Fellow in Residence for 2022-2023.
The Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law at Yale and the Yale Law School Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization (LSO) seek a Fellow for a position beginning in July of 2022. This fellowship is supported by a gift from Alan Bersin, YLS ’74, and Lisa Foster, and it honors Dennis Curtis, one of the founders of Yale’s clinical program.
The fellowship provides for a law school graduate to spend at least one and possibly two years with members of the Yale clinical faculty and with the Liman Center and affiliated faculty. The Fellow will work on behalf of individuals and groups to further projects and policy reform through litigation and administrative and legislative initiatives related to criminal law and immigration. The Fellow will be based at Yale Law School.
The Fellowship includes work for one semester of the first year under the supervision of Professor Fiona Doherty on a project aimed at improving the integrity of convictions in Connecticut. The Fellow may also join Professor Lucas Guttentag on furthering administrative and executive immigration reform by analyzing the policies of recent years, maintaining and enhancing a website that comprehensively catalogues recent policies, and identifying needed policy change.
The Curtis-Liman Fellow will participate in the Liman Center, which promotes access to justice and the fair treatment of individuals and groups seeking to participate in legal systems. Recent projects have included efforts to increase access to voting for people in detention, as well as research to document the use of solitary confinement, excessive fines and fees, and the harms of COVID for incarcerated individuals. Since its inception in 1997, the Liman Center has funded more than 160 Law Fellows at more than 100 host organizations, and more than 450 Liman Summer Fellows from eight colleges and universities. The Liman Center includes Professor Judith Resnik, Liman Director Jenny Carroll, other Liman Fellows in Residence, affiliated researchers, and related staff.
The Liman Center and Yale’s LSO seek candidates who are able to work independently and as part of a team and who possess excellent legal skills and a deep commitment to social justice. Qualifications include a J.D. degree and, before the fellowship starts, admission to a bar and a plan to be admitted to the Connecticut Bar. The salary range is from $47,500 to $55,000 or more, depending on experience. Fellows receive health benefits and access to university facilities. The fellowship is for at least one year, with discussion of a one year extension to take place after the first semester.
To apply, submit by email a resume, a cover letter explaining your background and how this work relates to your longer-term plans, a writing sample, a law school transcript, and the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of three references (of whom at least one and preferably more should be a law school professor) to elizabeth.keane@yale.edu. If letters of reference are readily available, ask that individuals forward them directly; otherwise, when appropriate, we will contact references by email or phone. Absent special circumstances, applications should be sent by email to Elizabeth Keane, and if possible by February 21st, 2022.
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