[ecrea] Tenure Track Position: Clinical Professor of Law to direct Media Law Clinic at Yale Law School

Tenure Track Position: Clinical Professor of Law to direct Media Law Clinic
at Yale Law School

Basic Description

Yale Law School invites applications for a clinical professor of law to run
a clinic on First Amendment, Media Freedom and Information Access issues at
Yale Law School.

The clinical professor will work with Yale's Information Society Project
(ISP) on media and information policy issues.

The professorship will be a tenure-track position with the potential of
clinical tenure.

Nature of Position

(1) The clinical professor will run the law school's Media Freedom and
Information Access clinic.

The clinical professor will manage litigation, teach, and supervise
students in the clinic. The clinical professor will also coordinate the
clinic's relationships with supervising attorneys with whom students may
cooperate. Yale's Media Freedom and Information Access clinic will accept
cases on issues related to both old and new media, in areas including
freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of information,
telecommunications, intellectual property, privacy, and Internet law. The
clinical professor will be expected to develop and expand the clinic's work
through important litigation that promotes media freedom and information
access.  The clinical professor will be expected to establish and maintain
the clinic's relationships with other organizations devoted to promoting
media freedom and information access.

(2) The clinical professor will be a faculty fellow of the Yale Information
Society Project (ISP).  Founded in 1997, ISP is an interdisciplinary center
that studies the implications of new information technologies for law and
society, committed to the goals of democracy, development and civil
liberties. As part of ISP, the clinical professor will work with ISP
fellows on policy issues concerning Internet, telecommunications, and media
law.  The clinical professor will publish scholarship and oversee
scholarship by ISP fellows and students on these and related issues.  The
clinical professor will also work with the fellows and students of the ISP
in their amicus practice.

(3) In addition to directing the media freedom clinic, the clinical
professor may also teach courses in the law school on media, Internet law,
and related issues.

Basic Requirements

Applicants should have at least five years' experience in litigation
concerning the First Amendment and media law--including both old and new
media--and have broad experience in media and Internet-related issues
including freedom of information, intellectual property, telecommunications
and privacy.  Applicants should have outstanding legal writing skills, high
ethical standards, sound judgment, and the ability to motivate and train
law students and promote teamwork.

Additional Requirements

The Law School seeks applications with strong academic ambitions who can
help lead a program in media law and information policy at Yale that
contains both litigation and policy components.

Highly desirable attributes that the appointments committee will consider
include:

(1) Prior law school teaching experience.
(2) A track record of previous publications in media law, information
policy, intellectual property, telecommunications, and privacy and related
fields, and a demonstrated commitment to scholarship.
(3) A working knowledge of first amendment, media law, journalism, Internet
law, and information policy organizations with which the clinic and the ISP
might partner.

Contact Information

Interested applicants should provide a resume, copies of publications and a
list of references to:

Beth A. Barnes
Dean's Office
Yale Law School
127 Wall Street, Room 107
New Haven, CT 06511
(203) 432-0415 - telephone
(203) 432-7117 - facsimile
_beth.barnes@yale.edu_