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Clinic Teaching Fellow - Immigrant Rights/Immigrant Justice Clinic
School of Law
Position Type: Faculty position with full, competitive benefits package
Closes: Open Until Filled
Salary: $70,000 per year
Position is open until filled. Applications received by January 15, 2026, will receive priority consideration.
The University of Baltimore School of Law invites applications for a Clinical Teaching Fellowship in its Immigrant Rights/Immigrant Justice Clinic to start on or about July 1, 2026. This public interest fellowship program trains and mentors practicing attorneys who want to transition from law practice into clinical teaching.
The Immigrant Rights/Immigrant Justice Clinic represents low-income immigrants in a range of direct client representation and immigrant rights policy work, with a special focus on humanitarian immigration law matters and asylum cases. Our clients come from all over the world. Our students also, typically, do community work like offering intakes and consultations at Baltimore hospitals, giving tailored community education presentations to a variety of audiences, and occasionally engaging in legislative and policy work.
The Fellowship focuses its first year and a half on the skills of teaching, from crafting and leading seminars, to facilitating supervision meetings with student-attorneys. The second year of the fellowship focuses on developing legal scholarship. In the third year, we support the Fellow to go on the clinical teaching job market. In addition to teaching, supervision, and legal scholarship, the Fellow is responsible for case coverage over the summer and during the winter break. This position is a 3-year contractual appointment.
Required Qualifications: Excellent oral and written communication skills; at least two years of experience as a practicing lawyer primarily in immigration, including both defensive and affirmative work; a strong academic record and/or other indicia of high performance ability; commitment to work for low income and immigrant clients; and a strong interest in teaching. Fellows must be members in good standing with the Maryland Bar or another State bar and willing to complete the necessary documentation to be permitted to supervise law practice by students. Ability to speak and write Spanish proficiently is not required, but is strongly preferred.
Salary: The current salary is $70,000 per year. The position includes full benefits, including retirement, research support, and a travel allowance to attend relevant conferences and workshops.
We offer a competitive benefits package, including health, life, prescription, and dental plans, tuition remission benefits, paid leave (22 days of annual, 15 days of sick, 3 days of personal, and 14-15 holidays) and retirement plans with employer contributions. You can see more details on our benefits here. For the optional retirement plan, the state contributes a fixed percentage of your salary each year to your ORP account, independent of your contribution amount. Currently, the state contribution rate is 7.25% of salary.
Position is open until filled, and applications submitted by January 15, 2026, will receive priority consideration. For more details about the Fellows’ Program, please view our website at http://law.ubalt.edu/clinics/fellows/
The University of Baltimore ("UB" or "University") does not discriminate on the basis of sex, gender, race, religion, age, disability, national origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other legally protected characteristics in its programs, activities or employment practices. UB is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/ADA Compliant Employer & Title IX Institution.
Clinic Teaching Fellow - Immigrant Rights/Immigrant Justice Clinic
School of Law
Position Type: Faculty position with full, competitive benefits package
Closes: Open Until Filled
Salary: $70,000 per year
Position is open until filled. Applications received by January 15, 2026, will receive priority consideration.
The University of Baltimore School of Law invites applications for a Clinical Teaching Fellowship in its Immigrant Rights/Immigrant Justice Clinic to start on or about July 1, 2026. This public interest fellowship program trains and mentors practicing attorneys who want to transition from law practice into clinical teaching.
The Immigrant Rights/Immigrant Justice Clinic represents low-income immigrants in a range of direct client representation and immigrant rights policy work, with a special focus on humanitarian immigration law matters and asylum cases. Our clients come from all over the world. Our students also, typically, do community work like offering intakes and consultations at Baltimore hospitals, giving tailored community education presentations to a variety of audiences, and occasionally engaging in legislative and policy work.
The Fellowship focuses its first year and a half on the skills of teaching, from crafting and leading seminars, to facilitating supervision meetings with student-attorneys. The second year of the fellowship focuses on developing legal scholarship. In the third year, we support the Fellow to go on the clinical teaching job market. In addition to teaching, supervision, and legal scholarship, the Fellow is responsible for case coverage over the summer and during the winter break. This position is a 3-year contractual appointment.
Required Qualifications: Excellent oral and written communication skills; at least two years of experience as a practicing lawyer primarily in immigration, including both defensive and affirmative work; a strong academic record and/or other indicia of high performance ability; commitment to work for low income and immigrant clients; and a strong interest in teaching. Fellows must be members in good standing with the Maryland Bar or another State bar and willing to complete the necessary documentation to be permitted to supervise law practice by students. Ability to speak and write Spanish proficiently is not required, but is strongly preferred.
Salary: The current salary is $70,000 per year. The position includes full benefits, including retirement, research support, and a travel allowance to attend relevant conferences and workshops.
We offer a competitive benefits package, including health, life, prescription, and dental plans, tuition remission benefits, paid leave (22 days of annual, 15 days of sick, 3 days of personal, and 14-15 holidays) and retirement plans with employer contributions. You can see more details on our benefits here. For the optional retirement plan, the state contributes a fixed percentage of your salary each year to your ORP account, independent of your contribution amount. Currently, the state contribution rate is 7.25% of salary.
Position is open until filled, and applications submitted by January 15, 2026, will receive priority consideration. For more details about the Fellows’ Program, please view our website at http://law.ubalt.edu/clinics/fellows/
The University of Baltimore ("UB" or "University") does not discriminate on the basis of sex, gender, race, religion, age, disability, national origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other legally protected characteristics in its programs, activities or employment practices. UB is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/ADA Compliant Employer & Title IX Institution.
Salary : $70,000