The Street Law Clinic offers a two-year Law Related Education Fellowship. This fellowship is offered to graduate candidates who are interested in developing teaching, supervisory and research abilities in a setting that combines public education, clinical teaching, and public interest work. The fellowship program combines seminar teaching, field supervision of second- and third-year law students, administration, curriculum development and scholarly research in the context of practical law affecting everyday life. Fellows also conduct research, writing, and curriculum development. The fellowship includes a study of educational methodology, clinical legal education, substantive legal topics, and supervisory techniques. Clinic fellows focus on one of two areas: Street Law in the High Schools, or Street Law in the Community (summer only for academic year 2009-10).

Requirements:

1. In the Street Law High Schools Clinic, the fellow assists in the instruction and supervision of law students who teach year-long elective courses in practical law in District of Columbia senior high schools. These courses cover criminal, torts, consumer, housing, family, and individual rights matters and culminate in a mock trial tournament. In the mock trial tournament, clinic law students coach their high school students to play roles of lawyers and witnesses in a complex trial problem written by the fellow and presented before Superior Court judges.
2. In the Street Law in the Community Clinic, the fellow assists in the instruction and supervision of law students who teach semester-long courses in practical law in District of Columbia correctional facilities, homeless shelters, residential treatment facilities and other community settings. The course cover diverse substantive areas of the law, including criminal law and procedure, constitutional law, employment, housing and public benefits law.

Fellowship Application (pdf format)

Send Applications to:

Professor Richard L. Roe
Clinic Director, DC Street Law Project
Georgetown University Law Center
111 F Street, NW, Room 128
Washington, DC 20001-2095

For more information about the fellowship, contact:

Call (202) 662-9615; or
send e-mail to roe@law.georgetown.edu

Revised July 30, 2009 (MA)