Environmental Law Clinic Fellow

University of Detroit Mercy•Detroit, MI

58d•Onsite

About The Position

The University of Detroit Mercy School of Law Clinical Fellows Program seeks applicants for a fellowship in its Environmental Law Clinic. This is an in-person, two-year appointment. The Detroit Mercy Law Environmental Law Clinic is a partnership between Detroit Mercy Law and the Great Lakes Environmental Law Center. The Clinic is taught and directed by the Center's Executive Director, an environmental law attorney and expert in the field. The Center is a Detroit-based nonprofit that seeks to protect air, land, and water for our communities by providing legal services to low-income residents and non-profit environmental organizations in Michigan and the Great Lakes region. We create solutions to environmental issues impacting the health and quality of life of our communities. The Center and Clinic work for sustainable, healthy, and vibrant communities where people have clean air to breathe, safe and affordable water to drink, and beautiful, natural spaces for recreation. Currently, the Center's work focuses on five primary environmental issues: air quality; drinking water quality and affordability; clean rivers, lakes, and streams; the sustainable re-use of vacant land in urban areas through things like urban agriculture and renewable energy, and promoting and advocating for state and federal agencies to ensure compliance with environmental laws and regulations. In the Clinic, students learn how to affect regulatory policy at the local, state, and federal levels and apply environmental law and policy to client matters and to solve emerging environmental problems. Students work on Center matters and impact litigation in agencies, legislatures and state and federal courts. The course focuses on client issues related to air pollution, water pollution, environmental justice, transportation, and citizen suit enforcement. We seek an Environmental Law Clinic Fellow to lead client matters while providing skills training, and lectures to law students in the Clinic, and working closely with the School of Law and Center. The Clinical Fellows Program is designed to support attorneys wishing to explore the possibility of a career in clinical teaching. University of Detroit Mercy Law Clinical Fellows gain valuable experience and mentoring in clinical pedagogy and in their substantive area of practice. Their job duties include clinical teaching and student supervision with clinic directors and participation in the operation and development of the clinic they teach in.

Requirements

A Doctorate degree from ABA accredited law school (No substitute).
Candidates must hold a J.D. degree from an American Bar Association accredited law school and be eligible for licensure in Michigan.
They should have at least two years of experience relevant to the Clinic's work, a commitment to public interest lawyering, and potential for scholarship and success as a clinical teacher.
Candidates must be able to work independently and as part of a team and show a commitment to teaching and working in a multicultural environment.
Strong writing skills are required.

Benefits

Three health plans to choose from with a large national provider network
UDM's School of Dentistry FREE to you and your dependents
Option to purchase additional dental plan through UNUM
Exams and lenses every 12 months
Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Accounts offered.
Provided to everyone in your household.
Short-Term and Long-Term Disability.
One times base salary up to a hundred thousand dollars.
Option to purchase additional life insurance, accident insurance, and/or critical illness insurance
Tuition Remission Benefit for you, your spouse, and children.
UDM provides matches up to 8%