Teaching Assistant

1 unit

Students chosen as Teaching Assistants receive one unit of academic credit per year for this year-long Teaching Assistantship: 0 units for fall semester and 1 unit for spring. These students assist the Legal Research Methodologies instructors throughout the year by helping prepare potential research assignments, drafting bench memoranda regarding potential research assignments and being accessible to first-year students as the students research and draft their assignments. Students chosen for this position will engage in significant research and writing during the course of the year. Students applying for this position can be rising second-year or third-year students who have demonstrated their legal research and writing skills on one of the publications, moot court programs, in summer employment and/or in their Legal Practice and Legal Research Methodologies classes. Interested students should submit (in April, to apply for the following year) a cover letter and resume regarding their interest in the position, including the nature of their legal research and writing experience. Students should indicate in their cover letter whether or not they have taken Advanced Legal Research or plan to enroll in that course during their second or third-year of law school. Applicants should send their cover letter and resume to the Legal Practice Professor whom