Clinical Fellowship Opportunity at Yale Law School

The Yale Law School Center for Private Law seeks applications for a Clinical Fellow in Private Law. The Clinical Fellow would also serve as the Director of the Private Law Clinic at Yale Law School for the duration of the fellowship. The fellowship will begin by August 2025 at the latest and extend over two academic years, with the possibility of renewing the post for a third. Pay and benefits will track the Law School's practices. Applications received by April 25 will be given priority.

The Fellow will work alongside the Center's director, Daniel Markovits, to teach the Private Law Clinic during the academic semester. Duties will include designing and co-teaching the weekly two-hour seminar, supervising students on a regular basis, helping select the matters the clinic will take up, and coordinating with outside attorneys on both the substance of the matters and the feedback they provide our students.

Throughout its work, the Clinic aims to deploy private law doctrines in the public interest and/or to apply useful ideas from legal theory to push for improvements to existing doctrine. By way of example, students may find themselves seeking redress for the victims of cryptocurrency scams, arguing for heightened tort duties owed to people with disabilities, or researching contract theories that can be used to combat exploitative or deceptive medical bills. In our seminar, we also tackle specific issues within private law doctrine and theory (e.g., the rights of third-party contract beneficiaries or the relationship between statutory and common-law tort liability). The details of the clinic’s docket and the topics covered in seminar remain somewhat open, however, and will depend on the Fellow's interests and expertise, as well as on student input. While an ambition to become a law professor is not required, the fellowship is designed to support someone who would like to move from practice into a university appointment, as either a clinical or an academic professor. In addition to co-teaching the Clinic alongside the Clinical Fellow, the Center's director will engage with the Fellow's research and academic work in the service of helping the Fellow to develop as a scholar and teacher. Applicants should submit a letter of interest and a CV by email to [email protected] and to [email protected] with the subject line “Clinical Fellowship Application.”