Lecturer

Working Title: Lecturer

Department: College of Law-0899

Requisition Number: F_260127

Posting Open Date: 10/26/2026

Application Review Date: (To ensure consideration, please submit all application materials before review date): 11/10/2026

Open Until Filled: Yes

Description of Work:

The University of Nebraska College of Law invites applications to direct and teach a clinic in Immigration Law. The College is relaunching the clinic with support from grant funding. The Clinic will provide students with intensive, closely supervised experience representing clients in immigration matters while expanding access to legal services for immigrant communities in Nebraska. Depending on case needs and the director’s expertise, matters may include family-based petitions, removal defense, asylum, victim-based relief, naturalization assistance, and related community-based projects.

Responsibilities will include providing academic and programmatic leadership, supervising students in client representation, teaching the clinical course, and helping shape the clinic’s next phase of service, education, and community engagement.

The position is full time and includes a three-year appointment as a Lecturer. Continued appointment after that time will depend on the candidate’s success and continued funding. To ensure that the clinic can be offered in the fall semester of 2027, the Assistant Director should be available no later than July 1, 2027. Salary is commensurate with experience.

General information about the College of Law is available at http://law.unl.edu.

Minimum Required Qualifications:

• J.D. degree or equivalent.
• Experience or a strong interest in teaching, mentoring, and supervising law students.
• Substantial experience practicing immigration law.
• Current license to practice law.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Current license to practice law in Nebraska.
• Experience directing or administering a legal clinic, nonprofit legal program, or comparable practice setting.
• Spanish-language proficiency or experience effectively supervising work conducted with interpreters and multilingual clients.
• Experience building community partnerships or serving clients in rural or underserved communities.

Work Location (City, State): Lincoln, NE

Criminal History Background Check Required: No

How to Apply:

Click “Apply for this Job” and complete the faculty information form. Attach the following documents:

1. Letter of interest.
2. Curriculum vitae.
3. List of three professional references.

For questions or accommodations related to this position contact:
Brett Stohs
bstohs@unl.edu

Job Category (old): Faculty Non-Tenure Leading

Job Type: 9 Month

Position funded by grant or other form of temporary funding?: Yes

Planned Hire Date: 07/01/2027

Organizational Location: Default Location

Organization

Working at University of Nebraska-Lincoln

For 150 Years, A Leader in Higher Education

Always a place of high ambition, University of Nebraska was one of the first institutions west of the Mississippi River to award doctoral degrees - the first was granted in 1896. The University of Nebraska established the world's first undergraduate psychology laboratory. The discipline of ecology was born here, and the campuses reflect that tradition, being recognized as botanical gardens and arboreta. An early institutional interest in literature and the arts provided the foundations for today's Prairie Schooner literary magazine, for the University of Nebraska Press, and for the Sheldon Museum of Art, which houses one of the world's most significant collections of 20th century American art.

Today, Nebraska is one of the nation's leading teaching institutions, and a research leader with a wide array of grant-funded projects aimed at broadening knowledge in the sciences and humanities. Nebraska is also a land-grant university and a member of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU). The university is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.

Benefits

The University of Nebraska offers an extensive benefits package that includes health, life, disability and long term care insurance; retirement accounts; tuition reimbursement for employees and their spouses and dependent children; and reimbursement accounts for health care and dependent day care. Leave policies are designed to help employees deal with personal or family events or crises.

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In the spirit of the phrase "Every Interaction Matters", UNL has an enacted commitment to diversity and inclusive excellence for our faculty, staff, and students. On our campus, diversity and inclusion are important priorities. Examples include: Husker Dialogues, which is an event that helps first-year students focus on diversity and inclusion and practice handling difficult conversations around difference; three Chancellor's Diversity Commissions that are charged with informing and advising the Chancellor and addressing issues of constituent campus communities; and the establishment of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion whose leader operates at the Vice Chancellor level. At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, we strive for excellence in all that we do. True excellence requires that each individual be able to work and learn in an atmosphere of respect, dignity, and belonging. Our commitment to diversity and inclusion requires each of us to continuously ensure our interactions are respectful, protect free speech, and inspire academic freedom.

About Lincoln

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is located in an up-and-coming and safe city of 300,000 people that has many of the cultural and entertainment benefits of a much larger city, with the feel of a friendly Midwestern community. The Pinnacle Bank Arena, opened in 2013, routinely hosts major touring acts. A buzzing entertainment district, the Railyard, connects the arena area to the Historic Haymarket. Cuisines from all continents provide the entree to dynamic urban nightlife and a wide variety of ways to enjoy time with friends. Nebraska's City Campus is one with Lincoln's city center, as it has been since the university was founded.Lincoln has more parkland per capita than Austin, Texas; Portland, Oregon; and all but a handful of U.S. cities. The well-manicured Pioneers Park, the native woods of Wilderness Park and the open grassland of Nine-Mile Prairie are each within a 10-minute trip from campus. Connecting many of these parks is an extensive trails network.