THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON SCHOOL OF LAW invites applications for an Assistant Clinical Professor faculty position to direct our Domestic Violence Clinic, beginning in August, 2025.
To review our job posting and application instructions, please click here: https://careers.uoregon.edu/en-us/job/535059/dv-clinic-director. A summary of the position is below. Feel free to circulate this email to anyone who may be interested.
Please contact Laurie Hauber, Director of Experiential Education, at lhauber@uoregon.edu for additional information.
Position Summary
The Domestic Violence Clinic provides real-world legal education for law students by training them to provide high-quality, trauma-informed legal services to survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking. The attorneys of the Clinic specialize in representing survivors of abuse in restraining orders, family law, and other related legal matters. The Clinic is an important educational experience for the law students who participate, as it prepares them to meet the legal needs of clients who have experienced abuse and offers them an opportunity to work on actual cases. It is also a crucial resource in Oregon for survivors seeking safety and access to justice as affordable legal services are very limited.
When fully staffed, the Clinic consists of three attorneys (the Clinic Director, a staff attorney and a post-graduate fellow), one legal assistant, and one advocate. All of the positions are funded through a combination of federal grants and state funding. The Clinic offers clinical classes to law students who want experience in representing low-income survivors of domestic violence in restraining orders and family law matters. There are two tracks: (1) the Domestic Violence Protective Order Clinic, where students focus on restraining order matters; and (2) the Domestic Violence Civil Clinic, where students focus on civil legal actions, with an emphasis on family law (divorce, child custody and parenting time, support, paternity), and may also work on cases involving public benefits, housing, employment, unemployment compensation, consumer credit, and related criminal matters. The Director and Staff Attorney provide direct services to clients year-round. The Clinic also houses Student Survivor Legal Services. This program provides legal services to students at the University of Oregon and other higher education institutions in Lane County.
In addition to teaching one or both of the clinic tracks, the Clinic Director will be responsible for managing the day-to-day functioning of the Clinic, administering the grants funding the Clinic, and applying for continuing funding for the Clinic to ensure the Clinic’s long-term sustainability. In addition, the Director will work with the law school administration to continue to develop the academic programming and services offered by the Clinic.
The Domestic Violence Clinic Director will supervise the employees of the Clinic and will report to the dean of the School of Law. The Director position will be a 12-month, funding contingent, career non-tenure-track assistant clinic professor position.
The University of Oregon School of Law is a dynamic, ABA-accredited law school and Oregon’s only public law school. Degrees offered include: Juris Doctor (JD), Master of Laws (LLM), Master of Conflict and Dispute Resolution (CRES), and a minor in undergraduate legal studies. Oregon Law’s mission is to provide a world-class education. We prepare students through excellent classroom teaching paired with a multitude of practical experience opportunities and robust professional development. Our faculty produce exceptional research and scholarship. We accomplish our mission in a positive, inclusive environment where we strive to provide everyone opportunities to grow, contribute, and develop. Our aim is to learn, teach, and practice the principles of equity and justice as critical foundations for our overall effort to achieve excellence as a top-ranked law school. Success in this work requires a diverse group of people in various faculty and staff roles working in one of our two locations, Eugene and Portland. The University of Oregon is located within the traditional homelands of the Southern Kalapuya. Learn more about Oregon Law at law.uoregon.edu, and consider joining our team.