job opp – Georgetown’s Federal Legislationa and Administrative Clinic seeks National Security/Foreign Affairs Fellow (SEP. 27th deadline)

* Job Opening – Georgetown Law seeks Graduate Clinical Teaching Fellow and Legislative Lawyer with an emphasis on national security and foreign affairs

National Security / Foreign Affairs

Graduate Clinical Teaching Fellow and Legislative Lawyer

Federal Legislation and Administrative Clinic

Georgetown University Law Center

The Federal Legislation and Administrative Clinic (FLAC) at the Georgetown University Law Center seeks a bar-admitted legislative lawyer to supervise advanced law students during a graduate clinical teaching fellowship starting January 2011. Candidates must have excellent analytical, writing, and interpersonal skills, and keen interest in all of the following: clinical teaching, legislation, and the national security / foreign affairs field. Candidates must be admitted to the District of Columbia bar as of the start of the fellowship, or be admitted in another jurisdiction with an application to waive into the D.C. bar pending. The duration of the fellowship is negotiable and may be one half year, 1.5 years, or 2.5 years. Fellows who successfully complete a fellowship of 2.5 years receive an LL.M. The fellow receives an annual stipend of approximately $50,000 (taxable, and pro-rated during the first academic term), health and dental benefits, and all tuition and fees for the LL.M. program. The fellow supervises approximately five students and works with the FLAC director and national security / foreign affairs clients on important real-world policy and legislative initiatives. More information about the clinical fellowship may be found at moss. Interested candidates who previously applied for a FLAC fellowship should communicate their continued interest along with any relevant updates to their files.

Dakota S. Rudesill

Visiting Associate Professor

Interim Director, Federal Legislation and Administrative Clinic

Georgetown University Law Center

111 F Street NW, Room 340

Washington, D.C. 20001-2095

(202) 662-9597 o

(651) 925-6257 c

By Robert M. Chesney

Robert M. Chesney is Charles I. Francis Professor in Law at UT-Austin School of Law. Chesney is a national security law specialist, with a particular interest in problems associated with terrorism. Professor Chesney recently served in the Justice Department in connection with the Detainee Policy Task Force created by Executive Order 13493. He is a member of the Advisory Committee of the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Law and National Security, a senior editor for the Journal of National Security Law & Policy, an associate member of the Intelligence Science Board, a non-resident senior fellow of the Brookings Institution, a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the American Law Institute. Professor Chesney has published extensively on topics ranging from detention and prosecution in the counterterrorism context to the states secrets privilege. He served previously as chair of the Section on National Security Law of the Association of American Law Schools and as editor of the National Security Law Report (published by the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Law and National Security). His upcoming projects include two books under contract with Oxford University Press, one concerning the evolution of detention law and policy and the other examining the judicial role in national security affairs.

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