From an email message that I received today:
The Health Justice Project (HJP) is medical-legal partnership (MLP) clinic housed in the Beazley Institute for Health Law and Policy at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. The HJP partners with Erie Family Health Centers, Legal Aid Chicago, Loyola Medicine, and Loyola University’s Stritch School of Medicine, to address the health harming legal needs of vulnerable patients. Students enrolled in the clinic engage in direct client representation and policy advocacy to improve access to health care and public assistance programs, healthy housing, and supports and accommodations for persons with disabilities, as well as addressing other holistic social and legal needs to improve client health and well-being.
The Clinical Teaching Fellow will work in collaboration with the Director of the Health Justice Project Clinic, assisting with client representation, research and policy work, and supervision of law students, VISTA volunteers, and other staff. The fellow will also assist with teaching the HJP clinic course, the weekend HJP clinic, and possibly other health justice and race equity courses. The fellow will engage in interprofessional collaborations with other university programs such as medicine, social work, public health, nursing, etc. This fellowship offers leadership development, experience collaborating on an interprofessional team, clinical teaching experience, support for research and scholarship, and career growth for public interest attorneys.
The fellowship is particularly well suited for lawyers who are seeking a career in clinical law teaching or social and health justice advocacy. The ideal applicant has experience in an MLP, public interest, or law school clinic setting, is barred in Illinois by the start date (or bar eligible) and has experience in one or more of the following areas of law: public benefits, disability, housing, advance care planning, education, immigration, guardianship, civil rights, race-conscious lawyering, and/or family law. The Fellowship is for a term of two years with potential for an extension for a third year based on performance and program and curricular needs.
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