Legal Innovation Summer Fellow, Legal Information Institute - Cornell Law School

Founded in 1887, Cornell Law School is a top-tier law school, currently ranked 14th by U.S. News & World Report. We offer a 3-year JD program for about 200 students per class, a one-year LLM program for about 120 students from countries throughout the world, and a doctoral (JSD) program for about 2-3 new students per year. Cornell Law School has 41 tenured and tenure-track faculty, including 20 with chaired faculty positions; and 15 clinical professors in the Lawyering Program and in clinics at the local, national, and international level. Our faculty is consistently ranked among the top in the country for scholarly productivity and influence and has pre-eminence in many areas, including quantitative and qualitative empirical legal studies, international and comparative law, and robust doctrinal scholarship in core fields. Our school is committed to being recognized as the leader among law schools at combining inspiring theoretical, doctrinal, and experiential teaching with cutting-edge scholarship in a supportive, intellectually rich community, so that our graduates can achieve excellence in all facets of the legal profession.

The Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School is responsible for the world's first source for free legal information online, found at https://www.law.cornell.edu. Each year, we welcome tens of millions of visitors from around the world who want to find and understand US law. Our small team builds fast-loading, usable, reliable applications that bring American law to people from all walks of life - lawyers, engineers, construction workers, students, disability advocates, bankers, farmers, and many, many more.

The Legal Information Institute (LII) at Cornell Law School LII seeks a Legal Innovation Summer Fellow to collaborate with the LII team on an innovative project advancing LII's service to the public. The fellowship provides an opportunity for someone with an interest in civic technology to do work with the potential to reach millions of people as they contend with the legal dimension of their work, personal, and civic lives. The Fellowship is funded through the Tom Bruce Legal Innovation Fellowship Fund.

Duties include the following:

• Work with LII's core staff to solve the most intriguing and pressing problems facing the LII as we bring an ever-evolving set of technologies to the information problems of a public that has come to rely upon us.
• Help the LII tackle uniquely difficult challenges and be a source of creative energy for LII's core staff.
• Work on problems in legal informatics, original legal content, application development, computer science, or information science as needed.
• Assess innovation opportunities.
• Refine project scope.
• Present work on the project to LII and the community.

This fellowship is for a three-month term and is not benefits eligible. The selected candidate may choose to work in Ithaca, NY or remotely. Confirmed remote or hybrid work arrangements are subject to university approval, if working outside New York State. Please note that the New York Convenience of employer guidelines require New York State individual tax reporting and withholdings for this position. Additional individual state income tax filings may also be required if working outside New York State.

The anticipated start date is June 2, 2025.

Required Qualifications:

• M.Eng., JD, MLIS, or equivalent combination of training or experience.
• Experience contributing to legal information systems; legislative or regulatory information systems; civic technologies; AI-and-law; or related work.
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively within a team.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working within, for, or with government at the federal, state, or local level.
• Experience with not-only-relational data modeling such as document or graph data modeling.
• Experience with content production for a general audience.

To Apply:

Please submit a cover letter explaining your background and interest in the project, a CV, and contact information for three references to https://academicprogramsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29868. Additional information may be requested during the application process.

Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.

Questions may be referred to lii-admin@cornell.edu.

The expected salary for this fellowship is $15,000.

Pay Range:

Pay Ranges:

The hiring rate of pay for the successful candidate will be determined considering the following criteria:

• Prior relevant work or industry experience.

• Education level to the extent education is relevant to the position.

• Academic Discipline

• Unique applicable skills.

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