Clinical Teaching Fellow - Civil Rights Clinic

About this position

Georgetown Law Civil Rights Clinic Hiring Graduate Fellow/Staff Attorney GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER. The Civil Rights Clinic invites applications for a two-year graduate fellow/staff attorney position to start in the summer of 2026. Civil Rights Clinic Professor Aderson Francois is the director of the Civil Rights Clinic and Voting Rights Institute (CRC). Professor Francois joined the faculty in 2016. Prior to joining the Georgetown faculty, Professor Francois directed the Civil Rights Clinic at Howard University School of Law, where he also taught Constitutional Law, Federal Civil Rights, and Supreme Court Jurisprudence. CRC operates as a public interest law firm, representing individual clients and other public interest organizations, primarily in the areas of discrimination and constitutional rights, workplace fairness, and open government. Beginning in the Fall of 2016, the section expanded its work into the area of voting rights. Students interview clients, develop case theories, draft and file complaints in state and federal courts, conduct discovery, engage in motions practice, and prepare appeals. Students also file FOIA requests and analyze responsive documents, and work in coalition with other public interest organizations to develop impact cases. Recent projects include: • Litigating multiple Eighth Amendment claims against state and federal officials, and private medical providers on behalf of an incarcerated persons; • Litigating an employment discrimination claim against a federal agency on behalf of an employee using a novel theory of intersectionality on the basis of race, gender, and age; • Litigating First Amendment retaliation claims against municipal agencies on behalf of Black Lives Matter protestors; • Litigating employment discrimination action involving pay disparity on behalf of a woman faculty member at a state higher education institution; • Litigating false arrest, wrongful death, and Fourth Amendment violation claims against the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department; • Litigating on behalf of an individual whose employer improperly denied her the lactation breaks she was entitled to under state and federal law; • L itigating on behalf of an individual whose employer improperly denied her disability and pregnancy accommodations, discriminated against her on account of her national origin, and illegally assessed fees against her in connection with her resignation; • Filing amicus briefs in multiple appellate cases before the United States Supreme Court, and the DC Circuit; • Filing FOIA requests and using the responsive documents to prepare reports exposing government misconduct; • Drafting national report on the use of criminal fines and fees to suppress voting rights; • Preparing and arguing multiple appeals in federal court, in the DC Circuit, the Fourth Circuit, and the Fifth Circuit. What do the Graduate Fellows/Staff Attorneys do? Fellows are responsible for day-to-day supervis

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