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Job Description

The Washington Center-Elon University Law School Legal Externship Consortium is seeking adjunct faculty to teach evening courses to law students from Elon and a number of other law schools beginning in January 2013 and continuing through the academic year. The courses would complement the legal experience in Washington, D.C. TWC has a potential need in the following particular areas, as well as others:

• Administrative Law
• Regulatory Law
• Legislative Process
• Other areas appropriate to D.C.-based externship experiences

Courses would meet once a week (Monday through Thursday) for three hours for fifteen weeks during the semester and for ten weeks during the summer. Classes are generally 12-18 students.

Education and Experience

Required qualifications include an earned J.D., with teaching experience and significant work as a practicing attorney required.

Equipment

Used to perform the job and which may be representative but not all inclusive of those commonly associated with this position:

Physical Abilities

Reasonable accommodation can be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform described essential functions of this job. These physical demands are representative of the physical requirements necessary for an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

The employee may frequently lift and/or move up to 25lbs. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, precise hand-eye coordination, and the ability to identify and distinguish colors. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, use repetitive wrist, hand, and/or finger movement, reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand and walk. The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl.

Application Instructions

To apply, please submit a cover letter including potential courses to be taught, C.V. or resume, and sample teaching materials (such as syllabi or course evaluations), if available via our online application form. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis and as our needs develop.

About The Washington Center

The Washington Center is the largest, full-time independent internship program in the nation’s capital, enrolling more than 1,600 students each year. The Washington Center has over 50,000 alumni representing more than 1,000 colleges and universities from the U.S. and abroad. Browse this website for more information about The Washington Center.

EEO / MFDV

This job description is no way states or implies that these are the only duties preformed by the employee occupying this position.  Employees may be required to follow other job-related instructions and to perform other job-related duties as requested, subject to all applicable state and federal laws.

Certain job functions described herein may be subjected to possible modification in accordance with applicable state and federal laws.

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