Working/Functional Title Interim Director, Public Defender Clinic Position Summary Michigan State University College of Law invites applications for a one-year, fixed-term academic specialist teacher position to develop and teach in its new Public Defender Clinic as the Interim Director.  The Public Defender Clinic will provide students opportunities to represent indigent defendants in criminal matters in a well-supervised and academically rigorous program. This includes representation in preconviction appellate matters which tend to involve short records and novel legal issues that have already been litigated and decided by a trial judge. Students’ work will engage in legal analysis, appellate writing, and oral argument. They will have opportunities to interact