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Professor of Practice - Immigration Clinic - (FAC002395)

Employer
University of Houston
Location
Texas, United States
Salary
Salary Not Specified
Date posted
May 9, 2022


The University of Houston Law Center (UHLC) invites applications for a non-promotion-eligible, non-tenure track professor of practice position and Director of the Immigration Clinic for the academic year 2022-2023, The position will commence no later than August 2022 and will end on 8/31/2023.

The Immigration Clinic handles all types of family‐based and humanitarian cases, with emphasis on asylum, withholding of removal, and Convention Against Torture cases, in addition to other violence‐related claims, such as Violence Against Women’s Act, Special Immigrant Juvenile cases, humanitarian parole, and crime victims (U visas). The clinic also handles T visas, and has helped in a variety of Crimmigration cases where the respondents were detained in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention and needed a habeas petition in federal district court.

The Immigration Clinic has a classroom component that meets for two hours a week for 14 weeks over the course of the semester. The classroom component focuses on teaching advocacy skills and substantive immigration law to equip students to represent immigrants before the Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice's Executive Office for Immigration Review and other federal agencies.

This position will cover the classroom component of the clinical instruction and the case supervision component. The position will also supervise at least two staff attorneys and work with the Director of UHLC Clinical Programs to manage grants that fund the clinic’s work.

An attorney appointed to the 2022-2023 position must, at a minimum, hold a J.D. degree from an ABA-accredited law school. As a non-tenure track position, the appointee will accrue no time toward tenure at the University of Houston.

The person who obtains the non-tenure track appointment for this position can be an internal candidate eligible to apply for available positions within the UHLC.

Please reference and review the University of Houston’s NTT Faculty Policy, available at this link: http://www.uh.edu/provost/faculty/current/non-tenure-track .

Also applicable are the UHLC bylaws provisions relating to the NTT position of Professor of Practice:

https://www.law.uh.edu/faculty/P-T-CEAsections--UHLC-BylawsApril2018_ver1c_4_6_2018.pdf

Further information about the Law Center and its programs is available at: http://www.law.uh.edu .

The University of Houston Law Center is seeking outstanding candidates who will bring greater diversity to the faculty, including women, racial and ethnic minorities, and members of other underrepresented groups in the legal profession.

This search is coordinated by the Director of UHLC Clinical Programs, Professor Chris Heard, cdheard@central.uh.edu. In addition to the formal application made in response to this posting, applicants should send Prof. Heard a short email expressing their interest, attaching a resume or curriculum vitae to that email.

The University of Houston is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action institution. Minorities, women, veterans, and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Qualifications :

J.D. degree or equivalent.

Notes to Applicant: Official transcripts are required for a faculty appointment and will be requested of an appointee. All positions at the University of Houston are security sensitive and will require a criminal history check.

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