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In deleting old email messages, I found one on this job opening unopened from last month. Sorry for the delay in posting!

We’re delighted to share that Cornell is hiring a transactional clinician to be based in Ithaca in the Entrepreneurship Law Clinic and the Blassberg-Rice Center for Entrepreneurship Law. 

David Reiss recently joined Cornell’s faculty to launch a new section of the ELC at the Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island, establishing Cornell’s first New York City-based law clinic in January 2025. Our search this year is for a co-director based in Ithaca. The new hire will have full-time teaching responsibility in the ELC, working alongside David. The appointment will be to the long-term, presumptively renewable, contract track for permanent clinical faculty at Cornell Law School, with voting rights and academic leave rights consistent with the other permanent clinicians.  

The full job posting is linked and attached.  

The application deadline is September 30, but we encourage candidates to apply early. If you have any questions, feel free to contact David (david.reiss@cornell.edu) and Beth (mbl235@cornell.edu). 

Friend-of-the-BLPB Will Moon has notified us that the University of Maryland is hiring a tenure-track or tenured position for its small business clinic.

The advertisement is linked below:
Job Description – Tenure-Track Professor, Small Business Clinic (250000O9)

Will suggests that the best way to apply is through the Taleo link found in the advertisement. While the position mentions “tenure track,” Will confirms that the committee is reviewing applications from both pre-tenured and tenured faculty.

From Mirit Eyal:

The University of Alabama School of Law is seeking a Clinical Assistant Professor in Business Law to serve as Director of the Entrepreneurship Clinic.

We are looking for candidates with significant practice experience in areas directly related to entrepreneurship, startups, or small business law. We will also consider those with adjacent practice experience (including tax law) that can effectively transfer into the clinic setting. Candidates with a business or tax related LLM and direct experience in formal entrepreneurship, startups, and small business practice will be strongly preferred.

The position announcement and application details can be found here:  careers.ua.edu/jobs/…

The University of California College of the Law, San Francisco (“UC Law San Francisco,” formerly “UC Hastings”) seeks to hire an entry-level or lateral tenure-track or tenured faculty member to be a productive and impactful scholar and to establish and teach an in- house transactional clinic. As part of UC Law’s Community Justice Clinics, the clinic should serve disenfranchised and disempowered clients or communities while teaching students about the law, legal practice and the role of the law in the quest for social justice. The start date for the position is July 1, 2026. We are interested in applications from entry-level candidates and from professors with clinical teaching experience in the academy.

Applicants should have a serious interest in UC Law San Francisco and living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Candidates should send a CV, statement of research and teaching interests, a one- to two-page transactional clinic proposal, prior course evaluations (from the three most recent years of teaching, if available), and representative publications in .pdf format to Professor of Law Abe Cable, Appointments Committee Chair (appointments2025@uclawsf.edu), with the subject heading “Faculty Position.” The clinic proposal should address in appropriate detail the candidate’s vision for the clients…

The first webinar hosted by the Association of American Law Schools Section on Leadership for the 2025 membership year is scheduled for Thursday (March 6) from 1 pm – 2 pm ET/12 pm – 1 pm CT/11 am – 12 pm MT/10 am – 11 am PT.  The speaker is Elsbeth Magilton, Lecturer and Director of Externships at the University of Nebraska College of Law.  She will be speaking on “Law Students Learning to Lead through Non-Profit Board Service.”  The abstract for her talk is set forth below.  

This presentation showcases the work of attorneys on nonprofit boards, how the Nebraska Law Nonprofit Board Service Program has succeeded at Nebraska, and what challenges it is still overcoming. The program places law students with an area nonprofit board of directors for an academic year to observe, support, and engage with the nonprofit governance process, under the mentorship of an attorney board member. The Nonprofit Board Service Program “courses + shadow experience” model is an opportunity for students to learn about board service, engage with area attorneys and nonprofits, and reflect on how they can use their developing professional skills to benefit and lead in their community.

The session will…

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW invites applications for a full-time tenure, tenure-track, or long-term contract faculty position to direct our Entrepreneurial Law Clinic.  The faculty member will join a vibrant clinical program that has 15 full-time clinicians who teach, practice, and lead. We welcome interest both from those new to clinical legal teaching and from experienced clinicians; an appointment could be made to Associate Clinical Professor, Associate Professor, Clinical Professor, or Professor.

We seek dynamic candidates who are excited about clinical legal education, deeply committed to the academic enterprise, and able to collaborate with diverse groups inside and outside our university. We also welcome candidates who possess the capacity and inclination to support and advance law reform.  Commitment to principles of experiential learning and clinical pedagogy is central to the position; those who are not already conversant with these principles should be committed to developing in this domain.  The faculty member will have primary responsibility teaching and supervising students in the Entrepreneurial Clinic at our in-house law firm (Lincoln Square Legal Services, Inc.).  They will also have primary responsibility for selecting clients and matters and structuring the overall design and goals of the clinic.

In its current form, the highly…

At Emory Law’s Eighth Biennial Conference on the Teaching of Transactional Skills back in the fall of 2023, I had the privilege of presenting with my UT Law clinical teaching colleague, Brian Krumm.  (Congratulations are due to Brian, who was recently appointed the Interim Director of our Clayton Center for Entrepreneurial Law!)  The title of this post is also the title of our presentation.  An edited transcript of the presentation was recently published by Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law and can be found here. The abstract is as follows:

In this edited transcript, we explain how each of us–a doctrinal law professor and a clinician–use members of our campus and local communities to help instruct transactional business law students. We each have independently realized that there is a value to sharing these outside business and legal experts with our students. Among other things, we have found that we can bring unique areas of legal and business expertise into our teaching and, at the same time, introduce our students to real-life practice experiences and related simulations. All of this is foundational to law practice. In addition, experiences of this kind are, in our view, increasingly useful and…

Touro Law is hiring in its Clinical Program for a director of the new Small Business Legal Assistance Clinic. Please pass along this opportunity if you know someone who may be interested in the pursuit of social justice through transactional work and teaching. Please see job description and application at this link. The position, starting in the summer of 2024, is for a full time faculty member with voting privileges and annual renewal up to a 3-year term. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis, with priority for those submitted by December 31, 2023.

Suffolk University Law School’s nationally ranked Clinical Programs, expects to conduct a search for a tenured or tenure-track Clinical Professor to lead our Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship Clinic (IPEC), to begin in the 2024-25 school year. IPEC is a full-year in-house clinic, one of Suffolk’s 12 in-house clinics, and an important part of Suffolk Law’s outstanding Clinical Programs. Suffolk’s Clinical Programs have been ranked among the top 20 such programs in U.S. News & World Report for more than a decade. Our Clinical Professors have full tenure and are wholly integrated into our faculty, including having equity in terms of faculty rights, perquisites, and responsibilities. IPEC is also integrated into Suffolk’s recently launched Intellectual Property Center and its Intellectual Property Concentration, which includes a number of highly regarded faculty. Suffolk Law’s intellectual property program is regularly ranked among the nation’s best and was most recently ranked number 31 in the country.

We seek candidates with a commitment to excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service. Candidates must have at least five years of relevant experience in one or more areas

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Set forth below are key portions of the posting for The University of Tennessee College of Law’s new Clinical Teaching Fellowship.  Applications are solicited for either our advocacy or transactional law clinic. The full announcement, including instructions on how to apply, can be found here. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis.  However, preference will be given to applications received before May 1, 2023. For questions, please contact Director of Clinical Programs Joy Radice at jradice@utk.edu. 

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The University of Tennessee College of Law is accepting applications for our new Clinical Teaching Fellowship to begin in the summer of 2023.  This two-year fellowship will prepare talented lawyers and aspiring clinicians with at least 2 years of practice experience to become full-time clinical faculty at U.S law schools.  The Clinical Teaching Fellow will work alongside and learn from current full-time clinical faculty who teach in the College of Law’s Legal Clinic.  The Clinical Teaching Fellow will be immersed in all aspects of clinical teaching from learning clinical pedagogy to supervising law students on their casework.  The UT Law Clinical Teaching Fellow will also develop a research agenda and…