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Who We Are  Children’s Law Center is a mission-driven organization focused on providing high-quality legal services to children and families in DC.  As an organization, we envision a world in which all children have a strong foundation of family, health and education and are free from poverty, trauma, racism and other forms of oppression. Our mission is to do this work together with DC children and families, Children’s Law Center uses the law to solve children’s urgent problems today, improve the systems that will affect their lives tomorrow and strengthen our community so that change endures.  A key part of our mission is to challenge and reduce ways in which racism and other biases – structural and interpersonal – prevent each of us, our organization and the systems in which we work from providing children a strong foundation from which to thrive.      Our greatest assets are our people.  We recognize that people with diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspectives...

Assistant Professor of Law, with expertise in Business Law beginning around July 1, 2025. This position is open to scholars willing to teach in any area of Business Law, but preference will be given to candidates focusing on (1) Business Organizations, (2) Secured Transactions, and/or (3) International Business Transactions.   Ability and interest to teach in the hybrid format in our part-time/weekend JD division will also be considered as a part of the review process.   Applicants must present a JD with excellent academic credentials, evidence of outstanding scholarship or scholarship potential, and a devotion to teaching and mentoring students. Loyola University Chicago School of Law is dedicated as a faculty to contribute to a deeper understanding of law, legal institutions, and systems of oppression through a commitment to transformation, intersectionality, anti-subordination, and anti-racism in our teaching, research, scholarship, and public service. Both...

St. John's University (https://www.stjohns.edu/) seeks a Vice President and General Counsel (GC) to serve as the University's chief legal officer in support of the overall mission of the institution. For more than 150 years, St. John’s University has played a central role in New York City. One of the nation’s most diverse higher education institutions, headquartered in the most pluralistic borough in the world’s most important financial center, St. John’s is one of the top 40 universities in the nation for social mobility, according to U.S. News & World Report. In early 2021, the University welcomed Rev. Brian J. Shanley, O.P. (https://www.stjohns.edu/who-we-are/leadership-and-administration/office-president/rev-brian-j-shanley-op), as its 18th President. The next GC of St. John's will provide executive and administrative direction over the University's legal affairs as a member of the President’s senior leadership team. Reporting to the President, this executive will serve...

Loyola University New Orleans College of Law is accepting applications for a Westerfield Fellow to begin August 1, 2025.   This position is designed for individuals pursuing a career in law teaching.  Applicants should have strong academic credentials and excellent communication skills.  Fellows are responsible for teaching two sections of a three-credit writing course each semester, and Fellows teach this course with the support of an experienced director and professors in a program in which the director and professors coordinate the content and pace of the classes.  Fellows also have the opportunity to create and teach a seminar on a topic of interest in the second year.  Fellows have a student teaching assistant and faculty mentor in addition to other professors in the program.  One-year contracts may be renewed, and typical fellowships are two years. Westerfield Fellows have been successful in obtaining tenure track positions at ABA-accredited law schools. All...