Assistant or Associate Teaching Professor of Law, Director of Externships
Position Overview
Organization: School of Law
Title: Assistant or Associate Teaching Professor of Law, Director of Externships
Position Details
Position Description
The University of Washington School of Law seeks a dynamic and creative educator to serve as the Director of Externships to ensure the School’s externships and other field-based learning opportunities are of consistently high quality, further the Law School’s strategic vision, and respond to student interests and community needs. The Director of Externships is also framed at the rank of Assistant or Associate Teaching Professor of Law, due to the expectation that the instructor will teach the required companion courses.
The University of Washington School of Law allows law students to gain valuable legal experience while earning academic credit. An externship is an experiential learning course available to all LL.M. students and J.D. students who have completed one full academic year of law school. Students engage in substantial lawyering activities under the supervision of a licensed judge or attorney at various host sites. Through externships, students get out of the classroom and work in the field, handling real legal work, developing legal skills and substantive knowledge of the law, solving legal problems in real-life situations, and learning daily activities of legal practice.
Responsibilities:
· Manage and further develop a robust, high-quality externship program that furthers the School of Law’s curricular and pedagogical goals and meets the standards of the ABA and other regulatory bodies:
o Recruit excellent field placement supervisors;
o Develop training programs and materials and conduct workshops to support externship seminar teachers and field placement supervisors;
o Regularly evaluate externship seminars and field placements, including through classroom observation and site visits;
o In consultation with the Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and the Associate Dean for Experiential Education, develop new externship opportunities;
o Advise students about externship opportunities, counseling them about the externships most likely to meet their goals, and helping them to resolve and learn from any problems that arise in the course of their externships;
o Advise students and identify resources to help students arrange independent externships and secure faculty supervisors;
o Integrating LLM and MJ students into the externship program and coordinating with the Associate Dean for Global and Graduate Programs on international student rules and other relevant concerns
· Teach or co-teach the externship's required companion seminar and other courses as needed.
· As part of the law school’s experiential team, work closely with the Associate Dean for Experiential Education, the Program Manager, and instructors teaching clinical and experiential courses to offer a varied curriculum that meets the students’ needs for the development of professional roles and lawyering skills and that responds to student demand, and on recruiting, application, and admission for experiential programs.
· Engage in the life of the Law School by serving on committees and task forces related to externships, participating in meetings of experiential faculty, etc.
· Perform additional responsibilities as required.
This is a full-time, non-tenure eligible, 9-month position - September through June of every academic year. The anticipated start date is September 16, 2025.
The base salary range for this position will be $11,000.00 per month – $15,000 per month, commensurate with experience and qualifications, or as mandated by a U.S. Department of Labor prevailing wage determination.
The University of Washington School of Law holds to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Multi-culturalism, and Anti-racism as fundamental values. This work is an ongoing effort engaging the entire UW Law community. Candidates are encouraged to examine our Diversity web page and review the Strategic Plan for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Multi-culturalism, and Anti-Racism see https://www.law.uw.edu/about/diversity.
Qualifications
- Juris Doctor (J.D.) or foreign equivalent
- Admitted to Washington Bar or ability to become admitted within one year.
Instructions
Applications should include:
- A detailed cover letter describing qualifications for the position, including academic preparation, professional experience, teaching, and research
- Curriculum vitae
- The names and contact information of 3 individuals who can provide a reference. (Please do not send letters of recommendation at this time; the School of Law will contact references as needed)
- Diversity statement - this should include a statement of past and planned contributions to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI)
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
University of Washington is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, gender identity or expression, age, disability, or protected veteran status.
Benefits Information
A summary of benefits associated with this title/rank can be found at https://hr.uw.edu/benefits/benefits-orientation/benefit-summary-pdfs/. Appointees solely employed and paid directly by a non-UW entity are not UW employees and are not eligible for UW or Washington State employee benefits.
Commitment to Diversity
The University of Washington is committed to building diversity among its faculty, librarian, staff, and student communities, and articulates that commitment in the UW Diversity Blueprint (http://www.washington.edu/diversity/diversity-blueprint/). Additionally, the University’s Faculty Code recognizes faculty efforts in research, teaching and/or service that address diversity and equal opportunity as important contributions to a faculty member’s academic profile and responsibilities (https://www.washington.edu/admin/rules/policies/FCG/FCCH24.html#2432).
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Disability Services
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