Yale Law School is a wonderful place to work, and its administrative team is one of the best in legal education. If you are intrigued by the idea of coming back to the School, and of entering the world of legal academic administration—or know of one of your law school classmates who is—we would be most interested in hearing from you. Please see below for job listings of open positions at the School and elsewhere.
A number of fellowships are available to our graduates. For example, the Bernstein, Liman, Gruber, Ford Foundation, and Heyman Fellowships support work in various types of public interest positions. The Robert M. Cover Fellowship and Information Society Project (ISP) Resident and Visiting Fellowships are among those available for alumni/ae interested in careers in academia.
Job Opportunities
Animal Agriculture Accountability Project Fellow
Yale Law School is hiring a Fellow to prepare an assessment of potential litigation strategies challenging industrial animal agriculture’s animal welfare, labor, environmental and other negative externalities. The fellow’s work will be supervised by Jonathan Lovvorn and Doug Kysar, and will support the Animal Agriculture Accountability Project (AAAP), an academic and NGO partnership that seeks to accelerate the enactment and enforcement of state and local legal policy interventions to hold industrial animal agriculture accountable for its harms to people, animals, and the environment. This is a unique opportunity to work with a broad coalition of advocacy organizations committed to ending factory farming, and to guide the future strategic direction of litigation campaigns to advance this goal. The AAAP Fellow will receive a one-year appointment, commencing as soon as possible.
The Fellow will oversee the development of a deep-dive assessment of litigation strategies for challenging the factory business model in state and federal courts, including (1) an assessment of past, current, and potential future litigation strategies challenging industrial animal agriculture’s animal welfare, labor, environmental and other negative externalities, and the creation of a database cataloging such litigation; (2) an evaluation of which litigation strategies best advance the goal of elevating the public’s understanding that 90% of meat and dairy is produced in overcrowded, unsanitary conditions, which are extremely damaging to workers, animals, and the planet; and (3) recommendations regarding the cost, time, and likelihood of success of the most promising litigation strategies.
The Fellow will collaborate with project faculty; supervise student work in support of the project at Yale and other universities; coordinate with partner NGOs in the environmental, food policy, labor, civil rights, and animal protection community; and serve as a primary point of contact with philanthropic foundation leaders who have requested this assessment to guide their grant-making. The position is preferably based at Yale Law School in New Haven, but remote work in Yale-approved states will be considered for strong candidates.
The ideal candidate will have the following qualifications:
Graduation with a distinguished academic record from a U.S. law school;
Experience in one or more areas of law relevant to industrial agriculture, including food law, environmental law, climate law, animal law, agricultural law, and/or other relevant areas of practice;
Experience with public interest litigation or scholarship concerning such litigation, including experience researching and writing legal briefs, administrative petitions, or other writing and publications concerning public interest litigation;
Comfort interpreting scientific literature and technical concepts;
Strong interpersonal skills and enthusiasm for teamwork;
Capacity to work hard, efficiently, and independently; and
Commitment to public service or social justice work.
The Fellow will receive a competitive salary commensurate with experience level plus Yale University benefits. Applicants must have authorization to work in the United States.
Cover letter describing the candidate’s qualifications and including a statement of the applicant’s interests and experience;
CV or Resume;
Sample of recent legal writing; and
Names and contact information of three references.
We strongly encourage applications from candidates whose identities have been historically under-represented in the legal profession and the animal and environmental protection movements.
Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.
University policy is committed to affirmative action under law in employment of women, minority group members, individuals with disabilities, and protected veterans. Additionally, in accordance with Yale’s Policy Against Discrimination and Harassment, and as delineated by federal and Connecticut law, Yale does not discriminate in admissions, educational programs, or employment against any individual on account of that individual’s sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, age, disability, status as a special disabled veteran, veteran of the Vietnam era or other covered veteran.
The Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School seeks to hire an Executive Director. The Director may start anytime between now and September 2024. Please submit your application as soon as possible.
The Executive Director will work closely with the center’s Faculty Director, Professor Abbe Gluck and Senior/Deputy Director, to direct all of the center’s work including its daily operations, programing, and the center’s numerous projects and initiatives. The Executive Director will oversee the Center’s budget, hiring and staff personnel matters. The Executive Director will work closely with the Faculty Director as well as administrative staff, research fellows, and visiting and adjunct health faculty direct and manage the center’s scholarly and policy projects, medical legal partnership program, panel discussions and events including large conferences, student fellows program (including students from all Yale University professional schools), alumni engagement, and communications. The Executive Director will serve as a spokesperson and liaison between the center to its many constituencies - students, research collaborators, faculty, alumni, staff, and more.
The center’s work covers all areas of health care law and policy from the opioid crisis, to prison health, gun violence, medical legal partnerships, health equity, digital health, the Affordable Care Act, elder law, palliative care, and more.
The Executive Director will contribute to the center’s strategic growth and may have opportunities to pursue their own scholarship and clinical or policy projects.
Skills
Outstanding communication and collaboration skills and ability to maintain important relationships with many constituencies
Excellent organizational skills
Ability to oversee multiple projects simultaneously and execute on deadlines
Experience/Knowledge
Expertise or knowledge of current topics in health law and policy
Previous work within a health care setting or collaborating with medical partners is a plus
Education
J.D. strongly preferred but exceptional candidates without a J.D. but with expertise in health policy will be considered.
Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Interested applicants should send their resume/CV and three references to the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School at Health.Law@yale.edu. Since we have multiple openings, please include the name of the position to which you are applying in the subject line of your email.
Invitation to Apply: Visiting Clinical Faculty
Yale Law School invites applications for a full-time visiting clinical faculty position of one semester or an academic year to teach one or more law school clinics. A successful visit will lead to consideration for a tenure-track or tenured clinical faculty position. There is no limitation as to clinical practice areas, and applications in all subject areas are encouraged, with particular interest in civil rights law and law impacting children or youth (e.g., family law, juvenile justice, education law).
Applicants should have a J.D. degree or its equivalent and a minimum of five years of practice experience. The ideal candidate will have, in addition to a record of, or demonstrated potential for, clinical teaching, a record of intellectual engagement; experience teaching, training, and supervising students or junior attorneys in a clinical or other experiential learning setting; excellent supervisory and communication skills; the ability to work effectively with students, project partners, and other constituents; an interest in developing clinical experiences for students within a community that supports interdisciplinary collaboration and innovative, passionate teaching; and a record of scholarly publication or creative applied work. If not currently a member, admission to the State Bar of Connecticut will be required before the end of the first year of full-time appointment. Salary is commensurate with experience.
To apply, please submit a letter of interest, resume, and list of three references to Professor Marisol Orihuela, Chair, Clinical Appointments Committee, at clinical.appointments@yale.edu. The letter of interest should include a description of the clinic you envision teaching. Review of applications will be on a rolling basis. Applications should be submitted by December 1, 2024. More information about clinical legal education at Yale Law School can be found at: http://www.law.yale.edu/academics/clinicalopportunities.htm5.
We encourage applications from candidates who will enrich the diversity of our faculty. Yale University considers applicants for employment without regard to, and does not discriminate on the basis of, an individual's sex, race, color, religion, age, disability, status as a veteran, or national or ethnic origin; nor does Yale discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity or expression.
