This Fellowship Is To Die For

Supreme Court clerkships, Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships… Who cares?
We’ve unearthed a credential that is far more bad-ass. From a tipster:

I was forwarded this notice about a fellowship opportunity. Who wouldn’t want to have Recipient of Lethal Injection Fellowship on their résumé?

If your curiosity is piqued, read more after the jump.


Two quick comments:

1. We apologize for not getting this information to you earlier. The due date for applications was Friday, July 6.

2. Despite the awesomely cool title, would you really want this job anyway? As our source notes, “it sounds like more of an IT / tech position,” rather than a legal job (even though the listing states “J.D. preferred”).

Anyway, here’s the complete job posting:
Job Announcement: Lethal Injection Fellowship – Boalt Hall School of Law Death Penalty Clinic Berkeley, California
Overview:
The Death Penalty Clinic (DPC) at the Boalt Hall School of Law invites applications for its Lethal Injection Fellowship.
The DPC’s mission is to expose and tackle problems endemic to the administration of the death penalty; seek justice for indigent clients on death row; and offer a rich opportunity for hands-on training to law students. The DPC faculty – Director Elisabeth Semel and Associate Director Ty Alper – are experienced capital lawyers who also serve as a resource for lawyers representing death row inmates nationwide.
Job Description:
The DPC has created a website devoted to the nationwide challenges to lethal injection as a method of execution. The DPC seeks to hire a full-time Lethal Injection Fellow to take over all aspects of the administration of the website, and transform it from what is
essentially a repository into a vast clearinghouse of both public and password-protected information related to lethal injection challenges. In addition to posting content for the clearinghouse, the Fellow will play a substantial role in researching and organizing relevant content.
The Fellow will:
* Research ongoing nationwide lethal injection litigation and solicit relevant pleadings and orders from litigators;
* Research scholarly publications in legal and medical journals related to lethal injection in order to post relevant articles and studies;
* Establish network of sources – media, lawyers, legislators, etc. – for relevant website content;
* Work with national lethal injection legal and medical experts to cull and publish archive of relevant lethal injection documents.
The web-based clearinghouse will be of great practical assistance to attorneys currently litigating lethal injection challenges on behalf of death row inmates; will provide the public (including journalists) with a “one-stop shop” for up-to-the-minute lethal injection information; and will serve as an historical archive that will enable us to draw larger lessons about the death penalty from our nation’s experiment with lethal injection.
Qualifications and Experience:
* Interest in issues related to the administration of the death penalty and challenges to lethal injection as a method of execution
* Strong research skills, including internet-based and legal/ medical database research
* Understanding of Internet technologies and how they relate to the operations of a large, complex website
* Experience with ongoing website content management
* J.D. degree preferred
* Experience working in a criminal defense, public defender, or capital defense office preferred
* Experience using Web authoring, graphic design, and desktop publishing applications such as Dreamweaver, Photoshop, InDesign or similar programs
* Experience with Adobe Professional
* Proficiency with MS Office Suite of software
* Ability to take initiative with managing detail-oriented content and responsibility for posting fully proofed and correctly edited content to the web site with little direct supervision
Compensation:
Salary is $46,872 to $56,424 commensurate with experience. A description of UC Benefits can be found at http://hrweb.berkeley.edu.
How to Apply:
Applications are due Friday, July 6.
Applications should include the following three documents: 1) a cover letter; 2) a resume; and 3) a list of three references.
Applications should be emailed to Clinic Director Elisabeth Semel and Associate Director Ty Alper c/o Edwin Bish at [redacted].
Applicants should be prepared to begin work by August 2007.
For more information about the Death Penalty Clinic, please visit www.deathpenaltyclinic.org.
The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
The School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley is committed to the support and encouragement of a multi-cultural environment and seeks candidates who can make positive contributions in a context of ethnic and cultural diversity.

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