Adjunct Professor, Visual and Performing Arts Law Field Clinic

Position Summary:

The Benjamin N. Cardozo of Law is looking for an adjunct professor of law to teach the Visual and Performing Arts Law Field Clinic.

The Visual and Performing Arts Law Field Clinic enables students to employ their legal skills to facilitate and protect the arts and to protect the rights of art collectors and artists. Art law practice raises unique legal questions that arise in handling art objects, facilitating performing arts, and in managing cultural institutions, as well as issues surrounding responsible stewardship and ownership. Students extern with various arts-related for-profit and nonprofit organizations, in addition to taking a co-requisite seminar. The professor who leads the field clinic both facilitates the placements and teaches the seminar.

Position Responsibilities:

The field clinic consists of two components: a two-credit academic seminar, along with a two-credit clinical field placement. The two-hour seminar meets in-person twelve times in the evening over the course of the semester. This highly interactive seminar will address, among other topics, legal ethics and professional responsibility. Adjunct professors are expected to facilitate student self-reflection and engagement in selective skill-building, as well as encourage professional development, through readings, written assignments, class exercises, and discussion. In addition to teaching the seminar component, adjunct professors must also facilitate placement opportunities so students can satisfy the required fieldwork component.

Cardozo School of Law seeks expert practitioners to cultivate individual field placement opportunities for students, as well as to teach the co-requisite field clinic seminar.

• J.D. from an ABA-accredited law school required.
• At least five years of practice experience in a relevant area of law is strongly preferred.
• Preferred background includes nonprofit or in-house experience in Arts Law.
• Prior law school teaching experience is not required, but a demonstrated interest in training and mentoring law students or new lawyers is strongly preferred.
• Prior supervision of student externs is also preferred.
• Descriptions of any past presentations for CLE or other training programs would be beneficial.

Skills & Competencies:

A successful candidate should exhibit the following skills and competencies:

• Deep knowledge of the relevant practice area;
• Broad connections within the field in order to identify and develop placement opportunities for students;
• Strong desire to teach;
• Ability to facilitate reflection and discussion;
• Affinity for mentoring students.

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About Us:

The Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law is a leader in legal education, located in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. The law school is renowned for its program in intellectual property, which includes the FAME Center for Fashion, Arts, Media and Entertainment Law. Cardozo Law has a long tradition of public advocacy and is the birthplace of the Innocence Project and the home of our Center for Rights and Justice. Cardozo offers a world-class faculty and encourages creative thinking and innovation in the legal profession. Cardozo provides students with a strong foundation in legal theory combined with practical hands-on experience in a variety of areas including criminal law, civil rights law, and business law. The school prides itself on creating a vibrant and warm community for faculty, staff and students.

A division of Yeshiva University, Cardozo Law School offers an excellent compensation package, and a broad range of employee benefit plans. The law school is a secular institution within a religious university and welcomes people of all religions, ethnic backgrounds, races and sexual identities.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

Yeshiva University is an equal opportunity employer committed to hiring minorities, women, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.