Clinical Teaching Fellow – Racial Equity in Education Law and Policy Clinic job with GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY

Clinical Teaching Fellow – Racial Equity in Education Law and Policy Clinic
Georgetown University: Law Center

Location: Georgetown Law Clinics
Open Date: Feb 05, 2026
Deadline: Feb 23, 2026 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time

Description
Clinic Overview

The REEL Policy Clinic is hiring for a Teaching Fellow for a two-year term starting in the summer of 2026. Georgetown Law is home to the preeminent clinical legal education program in the country. Launched in the Spring of 2022, the Racial Equity in Education Law & Policy Clinic (REEL Policy Clinic) is one of Georgetown Law’s newest clinics. The work of the REEL Policy Clinic sits at the intersections of legislative lawyering and advocacy for racial equity in public education. Foremost, the REEL Policy Clinic works to instill legislative lawyering skills in second and third-year law students, including legislative drafting, legislative research, writing for policy audiences (including fact sheets, policy briefs, white papers, legal memoranda, and reports), oral advocacy before legislative bodies and to education decision-makers, collaboration, coalition-building, and relationship-building with clients.

The work of the REEL Policy Clinic centers on three primary areas that implicate racial inequity in education: resource inequities; segregation; and discriminatory school discipline practices. Clinic student attorneys earn 10-credits for the semester and spend approximately 30-35 hours per week on clinic work, including client work and attending a twice-weekly seminar that addresses issues of education law and governance, constitutional law, civil rights law, administrative law, legislative process, and research. Through client work and seminars, REEL Policy Clinic student attorneys strengthen core lawyering competencies, including creative problem-solving, self-reflective lawyering, collaboration, client-centered lawyering, and culturally-responsive lawyering.

REEL Policy Clinic Teaching Fellow Position Description

The two-year fellowship will start in July 2026 and conclude at the end of June 2028. Fellows may receive a LL.M. in Advocacy at the conclusion of their fellowship if they choose to enroll and have not completed a similar program previously.Teaching fellows receive an annual stipend of approximately $70,000 in the first year and $75,000 in the second year, health and dental benefits, and all tuition and fees in the LL.M. program.

Foremost, the REEL Policy Clinic Teaching Fellow must be committed to instilling effective legislative lawyering skills in student attorneys. This requires maturity, patience, social and emotional intelligence, and experience necessary to model effective lawyering for student attorneys. Applicants for the fellowship must have at least five years of experience in a legal setting, strong grasp of education law and policy, and a desire to work with second and third-year law students and evening students. The Fellow responsibilities increase as the fellowship progresses and include:

Team Supervision: Supervise student team(s) in all aspects of their client work, including design of initial semester work plan, ongoing client work throughout the semester, and wrap up of client work atthe conclusion of the semester. Supervision includes the following:

• Providing students with clear, timely, and constructive feedback on their client work and progress, including through weekly supervision meetings and individual feedback meetings at mid-term and conclusion of the semester;
• Being available to students for feedback or additional guidance on client project matters or seminar content questions outside of designated supervision meetings;
• Working closely with the REEL Clinic Director to ensure that client projects advance in a timely manner;
• Working closely with the REEL Clinic Director to cultivate client relationships, including periodic client check-in meetings, and development of future client projects, among other client-servingresponsibilities; and
• Providing coverage for client work during semester breaks, as needed.

Clinic Seminar: In cooperation with the REEL Clinic Director, prepare for and attend all twice-weekly seminars. Work with the REEL Clinic Director in shaping some of the seminar content and supporting students during the seminar. This support can include providing thorough, clear, and timely feedback on assignments and helping students understand the connection between client projects and seminar content.

• During second semester of first year, developing and leading (in consultation with the REEL Clinic Director) a REEL Policy Clinic seminar on a designated topic;
• During the second year of the fellowship, developing and leading (in consultation with the REEL Clinic Director) on a couple of additional seminars.
• In consultation with REEL Policy Clinic Director, assess students on seminar assignments and participation.
• Attending an “Elements of Clinical Pedagogy” course as required for the LL.M. degree in the first year of your fellowship. You may attend an optional course to help build scholarship skills and prepare for the law professor teaching market.

Clinic Administration: This includes working closely with the REEL Clinic Director to update materials (including administrative materials), manage new and continuing client relationships, and support outreach to prospective clinic students within the law school. The Clinical Teaching Fellow is expected to conduct themselves in a professional, respectful, and collegial manner in interactions with all REEL Policy Clinic partners.

• Collaborate with clinic administrative staff in a timely and respectful manner to ensure effective internal systems and procedures are in place that support efforts to build and maintain an inclusive, supportive, and healthy workplace;
• Represent the REEL Policy Clinic with internal Georgetown partners (including partners with the Capitol Campus) and external partners;
• Stay abreast of rapidly changing education law developments to help ensure that the Clinic is up-to-date and responsive to the changing education law landscape;
• Conduct outreach for potential REEL Policy Clinic student attorneys, including participating in open houses and other recruitment opportunities;
• Represent the REEL Policy Clinic occasionally within coalitions or at partner meetings.

Qualifications

• A J.D., and five years of experience (post-law school) in a professional legal setting, and experience working on issues related to education law;
• Strong grasp of laws and policies that dismantle structural barriers to educational equity and opportunity;
• Ability to balance the needs and demands of student attorneys and clients and to effectively manage priorities (including distinguishing between urgent matters and important, but not urgent, ones);
• Clearly articulate a sophisticated understanding of racial equity and structural racism and the role of the law in perpetuating it, as well as the centrality of this analysis to transforming the law to promote racial equity in education;
• Exceptional leadership and supervision skills, including the ability to provide student attorneys with non-directive supervision and feedback designed to promote their learning and independence;
• High level of maturity, self-awareness, empathy, and social skills to inform interpersonal interactions;
• Excellent writing, legal analysis, and communication skills, including the ability to speak clearly with a wide range of individuals (including student attorneys, clients, partners, and colleagues);
• Exceptional ability to respond to multiple demands in a complex, fast-paced, and rapidly changing legal landscape; and
• Admission to (or ability to waive into) the District of Columbia Bar.

Application Instructions
Please submit a brief cover letter explaining how your skills and experiences have prepared you to support student attorneys in the REEL Policy Clinic, along with a brief CV, and official or unofficial law school transcript through the Interfolio portal at Please address your cover letter to the Clinic’s Director, Professor Janel George. If you have any questions, please contact the REEL Policy Clinic’s office manager Rayna Zhou at rz230@georgetown.edu. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis until Monday, February 23, 2026, and applicants chosen for interviews will be contacted.

For more information and to apply, visit https://apply.interfolio.com/181207

GU is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply, and will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, citizenship, color, disability, family responsibilities, gender identity and expression, genetic information, marital status, matriculation, national origin, race, religion, personal appearance, political affiliation, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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