Environmental Law & Policy Clinic - Practitioner in Residence or Clinical Fellow

Suffolk University seeks a Clinical Fellow or Practitioner in Residence for its Environmental Law & Policy Clinic for the 2025-26 academic year. The role involves managing the clinic, supervising students, and teaching related seminars, focusing on environmental legal matters. Candidates must have a JD and relevant legal experience. The position is full-time, starting July 1, 2025, and is located in Boston, MA.
Suffolk University Law Schools top-10 ranked Clinical Programs
welcomes applications for a Clinical Fellow or Practitioner in
Residence (PIR) to help run its Environmental Law and Policy Clinic
during the 2025-26 academic year. The Environmental Law &
Policy Clinic (ELPC), established in 2023 to meet growing student
demand, is one of 15 in-house clinics at Suffolk Law School. The
Fellow or PIR will work with a Visiting Clinical Professor in the
ELPC to run and teach all aspects the program, including designing
and building the docket, supervising clinical students in their
case and project work, and teaching the related clinical seminar.
Clinical Fellows are staff-level junior clinical teachers, and PIRs
are non tenure-track faculty, and the candidates appointment will
depend on experience and qualifications.

The ELPC is a full-year clinic offered for 10 credits (5
credits/semester) serving students in their last 2 years of law
school. Students enrolled in the ELPC work on a variety of local,
state, and/or federal environmental, energy, and land use legal
matters, including representing non-profits, citizen groups, and
governmental agencies on regulatory and environmental policy issues
on todays most pressing issues. During the 2025-26 academic year,
the ELPC will substantially focus its work on supporting
underserved communities and advocates on matters concerning land
conservation, sand mining, and resource protection in Southeastern
Massachusetts. Students will also provide analysis and education on
various legislative/regulatory initiatives. The Fellow or PIR will
focus on developing and managing a docket of cases or projects in
the realm of land use and environmental policy, legislation, and
regulation, including advocacy.

Requirements/Qualifications:

• Eligible candidates must possess a JD.

• Admission to the Massachusetts Bar, or qualification to be
admitted to the Massachusetts Bar within six months of start date,
is required.

• Successful Clinical Fellow candidates will have at least 2-5
years of relevant legal experience, and Practitioner in Residence
candidates will have 5 years or more of relevant legal experience
involving environmental, energy, land use, municipal or
administrative law and/or legislative and regulatory drafting and
advocacy.

• Experience with, or demonstrated interest in, legislative
advocacy and/or environmental legal policy is strongly
preferred.

• Experience working with diverse communities, clients, and
other stakeholders is strongly preferred.

• Experience mentoring and/or working with junior attorneys or
law students is preferred, as is teaching experience or prior
participation in a law school clinic.

Hours and Duration: This position will begin July 1, 2025, and
will be a full-time, 1-year appointment with the possibility of
future renewal.

Required Application Documents: Cover Letter

Curriculum Vitae

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