Executive Director, Information Society Project – Yale Law School

The Information Society Project (ISP) is an intellectual center at Yale Law School. It supports an interdisciplinary community of scholars who study issues at the intersection of law, technology, and society. Many of its fellows are recent graduates of law and doctoral programs and plan to pursue careers in the academy or in public policy. The ISP hosts nearly 100 events per year designed to promote scholarship, foster new ideas, and spark collaborations. The ISP is also home to a variety of initiatives including the Floyd Abrams Institute for Freedom of Expression, the Knight Law and Media Program, the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic, Privacy Lab, the Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice, and the Wikimedia/Yale Law School Initiative on Intermediaries and Information. The Executive Director oversees all aspects of the ISP, and works closely with the ISP Director, Professor Jack Balkin, and develops their own scholarship, preferably in the ISP’s research areas.

The Executive Director will receive an appointment as a Research Scholar at Yale Law School and is expected to pursue a scholarly agenda of research and writing during the term of the appointment. In this respect, the position resembles post-doctoral fellowships and visiting assistant professorships that combine administrative responsibilities with professional development and preparation for a permanent academic position.

As the day-to-day head of the ISP, the Executive Director will also:

• Administer ISP initiatives and research programs
• Build and maintain the ISP’s community of resident, visiting, affiliated, and student fellows
• Oversee the ISP’s scholarly publication strategy
• Manage operations: supervise and evaluate full-time staff, recruit and hire fellows
• Act as the public face of the ISP: build relations with alumni; publish a weekly newsletter; manage social media, listserv, and website content
• Oversee institutional growth and finances: develop budgets, review monthly financials
• Fundraise for the ISP and maintain relationships with funders
• Organize and supervise events: develop and manage academic events, including two weekly speaker series, workshops, and conferences

The Executive Director must reside in the New Haven area and begin the appointment in the summer of 2022. The Executive Director will receive a competitive salary plus Yale University benefits. Candidates must be a graduate of a law school or a Ph.D. program with a distinguished academic record, administrative and organizational expertise, and a record of scholarship, policy briefs, or other publications in areas related to the ISP’s work.

Application materials should include the following:

A cover letter describing qualifications, with an emphasis on past managerial and/or administrative experience, and including a statement of the applicant’s scholarly or policy research agenda

• A curriculum vitae
• A law school or doctoral transcript
• At least one sample of recent scholarly writing in English
• Three letters of recommendation: two letters of recommendation speaking to scholarship, and at least one letter of recommendation speaking to managerial and/or administrative experience

Applications will be accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis, and must be received no later than March 31, 2022. For additional information, please contact Nikolas Guggenberger (nikolas.guggenberger@yale.edu). Please submit applications in electronic form to Ann-Marie Cooper (ann-marie.cooper@yale.edu) and indicate clearly that the application is for the Executive Director position.

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