Clinical Teaching Fellow - Center for Applied Legal Studies

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2026-2028 Clinical Teaching Fellowship

The Center for Applied Legal Studies (CALS) at Georgetown Law announces that it is now accepting applications for its annual fellowship program in clinical legal education. CALS will offer one lawyer a two-year teaching fellowship (July 2026-June 2028), providing a unique opportunity to learn how to teach law in a clinical setting.

At CALS, our two fellows and faculty members work as colleagues, sharing responsibilities for designing and teaching classes, supervising law students in their representation of clients, selecting and grading students, administering the clinic, and all other matters. Clinical fellows also monitor and manage any cases that the students are not working on during the current semester. In addition, the fellow will undertake independent legal scholarship, conducting the research and writing to produce a law review article of publishable quality. All Georgetown clinical teaching fellows are enrolled in an LLM program and attend a weekly course focused on clinical teaching and pedagogy during their first year. They also have the opportunity to attend a weekly seminar focused on academic scholarship and writing. Both CALS and Georgetown faculty support fellows entering the legal teaching job market at the end of their first year.

This fellowship is particularly suitable for lawyers with some degree of practice experience who now want to embark upon careers in law teaching. Most of our previous fellows are now teaching law or have done so for substantial portions of their careers.

Since 1995, CALS has specialized in immigration law, specifically in asylum practice. Guided by faculty and fellows, law students represent clients in immigration court and in asylum adjudications by the Department of Homeland Security. Applicants with experience in U.S. immigration law, particularly those who have represented asylum applicants in immigration court, will therefore be given preference. The fellow must be a member of a bar at the start of the fellowship period; therefore, this fellowship is not suitable for graduating law students.

The fellow currently receive full tuition and fees in the LL.M. program at Georgetown University, and a stipend of $70,000 in the first year and $75,000 in the second year. Information on clinical fellow benefits is available here. CALS fellows have a flexible schedule, although fellows should expect to be on campus three to five days per week during the academic semesters. On successful completion of the requirements, the Fellow will be granted the degree of Master of Laws (Advocacy) with distinction.

Former holders of this fellowship include Mary Brittingham (1995-97), Andrea Goodman (1996-98), Michele Pistone (1997-99), Rebecca Story (1998-2000), Virgil Wiebe (1999-2001), Anna Marie Gallagher (2000-02), Regina Germain (2001-2003), Dina Francesca Haynes (2002-2004), Diane Uchimiya (2003-2005), Jaya Ramji-Nogales (2004-2006), Denise Gilman (2005-2007), Susan Benesch (2006-2008), Kate Aschenbrenner (2007-2009), Anjum Gupta (2008-2010), Alice Clapman (2009-2011) Geoffrey Heeren (2010-2012), Heidi Altman (2011-2013), Laila Hlass (2012-2014), Lindsay Harris (2013-2015), Jean C. Han (2014-2016), Rebecca Feldmann (2015-2017), Pooja Dadhania (2016-2018), Karen Baker (2