The Duke Center for Firearms Law (Center) is committed to the promotion of firearms law as a scholarly field. The Center achieves its goals through the development of scholarship, research, and programming on firearms law. Additionally, the Center manages the Repository of Historical Gun Laws—a database of gun laws dating back to the medieval age.
The Position
The Center is offering a unique opportunity for practitioners to spark their careers in legal scholarship as nonresident research affiliates. Affiliates would receive a stipend from the Center to support research-related projects and events. The Center would also provide affiliates with access to Center staff and faculty as well as to Duke University’s library resources.
Interested candidates should have a firearms law-focused research project in mind with an agenda and a proposed budget.
The Children’s Law Center of California (CLC) is a non-profit organization that represents abused, neglected, or abandoned children throughout the Los Angeles, Sacramento, or Placer County Juvenile Dependency Court systems. CLC has also been instrumental in the creation of over 28 pieces of child welfare related legislation since 1997. To achieve its mission, CLC’s staff of nearly 400 lawyers, paralegals, and investigators acts as the “voice” for over 33,000 children in the Los Angeles, Sacramento, and Placer County foster care systems.
The Position
CLC seeks a motivated and dynamic attorney with at least two years of dependency experience to represent Non-Minor Dependents in the Extended Foster Care Court.
The attorney must be willing to build relationships with clients and assist clients with out-of-court needs such as employment and housing. Additional duties include working closely and collaboratively with members of CLC, County Counsel, DCFS, Court Officers, outside service providers, and community-based organizations. The attorney may be asked to assist with drafting legislation and policy related to Non-Minor Dependents as well as provide training to fellow CLC staff as needed.
The ideal candidate would be a licensed attorney with a demonstrated commitment to building relationships with clients and to representing Non-Minor Dependents.
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