Church-State Fellowship position at the Pew Forum

[Ira (Chip) Lupu]

Set forth below is an announcement of a job search for a position as Research Fellow in Religion and Law at the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life (www.pewforum.org) in Washington, D.C.  I pass this along to list members for several reasons:

1.  The Forum is a highly-respected organization that does excellent work as a non-partisan distributor and producer of information about a wide variety of issues pertaining to  religion and public life (doemestic and foreign, legal and political); and 

2.  My colleague Bob Tuttle and I have an ongoing relationship with the Forum.  We will thus be working with the Fellow in many aspects of his or her job, and we have a vested interest in attracting a talented person to the position.

The position would be ideal for a relatively recent law school graduate with some background in church-state law, and an interest in remaining in that field (perhaps in the academy, in other aspects of the non-profit world, in journalism, or in future law practice).  Contact information is at the bottom of the notice.  Thanks for passing this on to anyone who might be interested. 

Church-State Position
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life is seeking a Research Fellow in Religion and Law with expert knowledge in church-state issues and excellent communications skills.  The fellow will focus on such First Amendment topics as disputes over religious displays in public buildings, religion in public schools and the workplace, and the provision of public funding to religious institutions. The fellow must have significant understanding of these issue areas, acquired either through academic study or professional experience.

The fellow’s primary duties include tracking a wide array of church-state issues, conducting research and writing legal backgrounders and analyses on important cases and issues, fielding press calls, and making public presentations on church-state topics to journalists, government officials and other opinion leaders.

The fellow must have excellent research skills and be able to quickly master new material.  He or she must be able to take complex issues and render them in clear, readable prose that helps non-experts understand the issues at hand. The fellow also must be a good speaker, who can easily convey conceptually difficult topics in a simple and clear style to both small and large groups.  In keeping with the Forum’s mission of serving as a source of impartial information, the fellow must be committed to the non-partisan, non-advocacy approach that characterizes all Pew Research Center projects.

The fellow will work closely with the existing senior fellow in religion and law, who focuses more on “culture war” issues such as abortion and gay marriage. He or she also will work closely with our partners at the George Washington University Law School, who conduct research and writing for the Forum on various church-state topics.
CONTACT:  David Masci, Senior Research Fellow, Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, dmasci at pewforum.org, 202-419-4566



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Ira C. Lupu
F. Elwood & Eleanor Davis Professor of Law
George Washington University School of Law 
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Washington, DC 20052
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