Clinical Teaching Fellow Immigrant RightsImmigrant Justice Clinic
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Job Location:
Baltimore, MD - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
12 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Job Posting:
JR101491 Clinical Teaching Fellow - Immigrant Rights/Immigrant Justice Clinic (Open)Department:
UBalt Law Clinic PMPosition Type:
RegularOpen Date:
Close Date:
$70000Job Description:
Position is open until filled. Applications received by January 15 2026 will receive priority consideration.
The University of Baltimore School of Law invites applications for a Clinical Teaching Fellowship in its Immigrant Rights/Immigrant Justice Clinic to start on or about July 1 2026. This public interest fellowship program trains and mentors practicing attorneys who want to transition from law practice into clinical teaching.
The Immigrant Rights/Immigrant Justice Clinic represents low-income immigrants in a range of direct client representation and immigrant rights policy work with a special focus on humanitarian immigration law matters and asylum cases. Our clients come from all over the world. Our students also typically do community work like offering intakes and consultations at Baltimore hospitals giving tailored community education presentations to a variety of audiences and occasionally engaging in legislative and policy work.
The Fellowship focuses its first year and a half on the skills of teaching from crafting and leading seminars to facilitating supervision meetings with student-attorneys. The second year of the fellowship focuses on developing legal the third year we support the Fellow to go on the clinical teaching job addition to teaching supervision and legal scholarship the Fellow is responsible for case coverage over the summer and during the winter break. This position is a 3-year contractual appointment.
Required Qualifications: Excellent oral and written communication skills; at least two years of experience as a practicing lawyer primarily in immigration including both defensive and affirmative work; a strong academic record and/or other indicia of high performance ability; commitment to work for low-income and immigrant clients; and a strong interest in teaching. Fellows must be members in good standing with the Maryland Bar or another State bar and willing to complete the necessary documentation to be permitted to supervise law practice by students. Ability to speak and write Spanish proficiently is not required but is strongly preferred.
Salary: The current salary is $70000 per year. The position includes regular benefits including retirement contributions research support and a travel allowance to attend relevant conferences and workshops.
Position is open until filled and applications submitted by January 15 2026 will receive priority consideration. For more details about the Fellows Program please view our website at offer a competitive benefits package including health life prescription and dental plans tuition remission benefits paid leave (22 days of annual 15 days of sick 3 days of personal and 14-15 holidays) andretirementplans with employer contributions. You can see more details on our benefits here. For the optionalretirementplan a defined contribution plan the state has a contribution rate of 7.25%. This state contribution is made even if you do not contribute to your ownretirementplan.
Additional Job Information:
The University of Baltimore (UBalt or University) does not discriminate on the basis of sex gender race religion age disability national origin ethnicity sexual orientation gender identity or other legally protected characteristics in its programs activities or employment practices. UBalt is an Equal Opportunity/ADA Compliant Employer & Title IX Institution.
Key Skills
- Teacher Coaching
- Public Health
- Google Docs
- Classroom Experience
- Systems Engineering
- Research Experience
- Teaching
- Grant Writing
- Leadership Experience
- Mentoring
- Public Speaking
- Writing Skills
