As we currently have multiple positions for which we are seeking applications, please include the name of the position of interest in the subject line of the email.
Solomon Center Executive Director
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 2025. 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, FDA law, health anti-trust, the business of medicine, and more.
The Executive Director will contribute to the center’s strategic growth and will have opportunities to pursue their own scholarship , teaching, 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
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.
Medical Legal Partnership Fellow
The Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School, in collaboration with Yale New Haven Hospital, seeks applications for a two-year fellowship working closely with our Medical-Legal Partnership Legal Director to provide direct legal services and build and expand the Yale Medical-Legal Partnership (“MLP”) program to new populations. MLPs embed legal services into the healthcare setting, allowing patients to address health-harming civil legal needs in a trusted environment. The Fellow will be an integral part of our interdisciplinary team at Yale, including Yale New Haven Hospital, the Yale School of Medicine and the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law school, working with diverse the patient population our MLPs serve, including immigrants, people leaving incarceration, youth, veterans, palliative care patients, and low-income geriatric patients.
This opportunity is designed for people interested in gaining clinical teaching experience both in the classroom and in the field. The MLP Fellow will support the mission of the MLPs in key areas: (1) providing direct client representation to low-income patients; (2) conducting education and training sessions for care team members; (3) advocating for reform to address systemic policy and legal issues impacting the health of patient/client populations; and (4) working hand-in-hand with MLP Legal Director James Bhandary-Alexander supervising law students to provide MLP services, conduct MLP-related research, and produce MLP-related scholarship.
This position is based in New Haven, CT and carries a competitive salary commensurate with experience and Yale University benefits. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
Qualifications
Education & Experience
1. Graduate of an accredited law school;
2. Admitted to practice in Connecticut or willing to gain admission;
3. 0-5 years legal experience;
4. The ideal candidate will have some experience in the areas of immigration, public benefits, employment, and/or housing;
5. Prior work or interest in public interest or poverty law is preferred;
6. Demonstrated interest in clinical teaching is a plus.
Skills
1. Strong legal (written and oral) skills including exceptional interviewing skills;
2. Ability to navigate complex organizations with multiple stakeholders, communicate effectively, and build alliances throughout and across multiple organizations;
3. Ability to multi-task and handle multiple client matters, supervisory responsibilities, advocacy projects, and strategic relationships at the same time; and
4. Disciplined record keeping.
Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Please send resume/CV, law school transcript, and cover letter to James Bhandary-Alexander, Legal Director of the Medical-Legal Partnership Program at the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School at james.bhandary-alexander@yale.edu.
Solomon Center Senior Academic Fellow
The Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School is seeking to hire a recent J.D. to serve as a Senior Academic Fellow for the center beginning in the early 2024. Please submit an application by November 2023, The fellow will assist in all aspects of the center’s substantive work and will work closely with the center’s staff (Faculty Director Professor Abbe Gluck; Executive Director; Senior Director; as well as administrative staff and visiting and adjunct health faculty). Fellows will have time to pursue their own scholarship and clinical or policy projects. All previous fellows who have entered the legal academia job market have obtained tenure-track positions following their Solomon fellowship.
The fellowship is available for one or two years, and both full-time and part-time applications will be considered.
Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Remote options may be considered for exceptional candidates. Interested applicants should send their resume/CV, three references, and a statement of interest including areas of health law in which they have particular interest to the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School at Health.Law@Yale.edu. As we currently have multiple positions for which we are seeking applications, please include the name of the position of interest in the subject line of the email.
About the Solomon Center
The Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School is the first of its kind to focus on the intersection of law and the governance, practice, and business of health care. The Center brings together leading experts and practitioners from the public and private sectors to address cutting-edge questions of health law and policy, and to train the next generation of top health lawyers, industry leaders, policymakers, and academics.
The Center was established to meet a critical need for a new academic and legal-professional discipline that responds to the rapidly evolving environment of health care and its centrality in the nation’s economy and government. Among the few health law centers at U.S. law schools, the Solomon Center is unique in its focus not only on the government’s role in health care, but also health care business and physicians and scientists themselves. The Solomon Center distinguishes itself by doing what Yale does best: focusing on law as a tool to affect governance, industry, and the academy.
The Center’s work is highly interdisciplinary. Programming includes many course offerings, both academic and experiential; career planning; academic research, policy work and litigation briefs; and numerous high-profile panels and conferences that bring academic, government, and business leaders in health care to the Law School. In addition to hosting a steady stream of academic visitors from all disciplines to enrich programming and course offerings, the Center supports student research, field work, and publications. Building on relationships with the Yale School of Medicine, Yale Cancer Center, Yale New Haven Hospital, Yale School of Management, and Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, the Center brings together all that Yale has to offer to make a difference both at Yale and beyond.
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. Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 protects people from sex discrimination in educational programs and activities at institutions that receive federal financial assistance. Questions regarding Title IX may be referred to the University’s Title IX Coordinator, at TitleIX@yale.edu, or to the U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, 8th Floor, Five Post Office Square, Boston MA 02109-3921. Telephone: 617.289.0111, Fax: 617.289.0150, TDD: 800.877.8339, or Email: ocr.boston@ed.gov.