Job o’ the Day: Assistant Dean for Clinical & Practicum Programs at Georgetown Law
Great opportunity for a public-interest minded lawyer who wants to get into law school administration and who believes that practice experience is fundamental for the best legal education:
Georgetown University is currently accepting applications for the position of Assistant Dean, Clinical and Practicum Programs. The Assistant Dean reports to the Associate Dean for Clinical Programs, Practicum Programs, and Public Interest and is responsible for (1) the administrative supervision of the J.D. clinical program, (2) the academic administration of the Law Center?s clinical teaching fellowship program, and (3) the development and administrative supervision of the practicum courses.
Georgetown offers 15 clinical courses to its students. Each clinic has 1-2 clinical teaching fellows who are enrolled in the program for two years.
Qualifications: J.D. degree and 5 years post-J.D. experience; superior writing and organizational skills. Experience in clinical pedagogy, management experience in an academic or legal setting, and experience in professional mentoring or student counseling are a plus. This is an administrative, not a teaching, position.
Duties include: developing and implementing administrative procedures and academic policies governing J.D. students enrolled in the clinics and for the graduate teaching fellowship program; coordinating the clinic enrollment process; monitoring the multiple budgets of the entire clinical program; developing and editing publications describing the clinical and fellowship programs; overseeing and developing content for the clinics? web pages; coordinating the review; coordinating a year-long course on clinical pedagogy for teaching fellows; academic counseling to J.D. students related to clinics.
Georgetown is on the cutting-edge in the development of practicum courses, which combine a substantive seminar class and student field work in a related area. In these courses, all of the students in the class take the same substantive seminar. Each student also is assigned either to a field placement at an external organization or to a project that relates to the seminar topic. During the seminar, students are encouraged to critically reflect on the meaning of their field work experiences and what it means to be a lawyer practicing in this field. Duties include: recruiting faculty members to teach practicum courses; designing training for faculty members teaching practicum courses; evaluating the success of the courses and determining what classes to offer again and what the curricular needs are; providing academic counseling to J.D. students in all areas of the curriculum.
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