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---
title: Jobs
slug: jobs
layout: sectioned-page
---
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<h2>Table of contents</h2>
<div class="slice-body">
<ul>
<li>
<a href="#background">Background</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#about">About us</a></li>
<li><a href="#why">Why work with us?</a></li>
<li><a href="#location">Location</a></li>
<li><a href="#ediba">Equity, diversity, inclusion, belonging and antiracism</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#staff">Staff positions</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#ed">Engineering Director</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#research">Research positions</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#research-assistant">Research Assistant / Student Fellow</a></li>
<li><a href="#fellows">Fellows</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="slice">
<h2 id="background">Background</h2>
<div class="slice-body">
<h3 id="about">About us</h3>
<p>
The Library Innovation Lab is a team of librarians, programmers, artists, and lawyers with a broad mission: to
build open-source tools and services for open knowledge, available to everyone and in the public interest,
that solve emerging information problems from the perspective of the world's largest academic law library.
We currently support three long-running services (
<a href="https://perma.cc">Perma</a>,
<a href="https://opencasebook.org">H2O Open Casebook</a>, and the
<a href="https://case.law">Caselaw Access Project</a>
) as well as a range of shorter-term experiments.
On the tech side, we work most often with Django, Vue, and Postgres.
</p>
<h3 id="why">Why work with us?</h3>
<p>
LIL offers a rare mix of contemplation and action: we are a small software lab within one of the world’s
largest law libraries, with a mission both to try new things and to think deeply about what ought to exist
for the long haul. Our mission offers a range of benefits for staff:
</p>
<ul>
<li>Job stability and support. While we maintain the creative atmosphere and flexibility of a small innovation lab, we're backed by an established institution with strong benefits and support for employees.</li>
<li>Room to pursue your research agenda. We are located at the Harvard Law School Library and share a kitchen with the Berkman Klein Center and metaLAB. Going to events, having conversations, developing your scholarly perspective, and exploring it through creative projects are encouraged. We will specifically prioritize these things at the cost of shipping the next feature.</li>
<li>Set your own pace. We are a small, self-directed group that depends on internal motivation rather than externally imposed crunch time.</li>
<li>Build open source. All of our projects are open source and otherwise designed to maximize the public benefit of our work.</li>
<li>Work on stuff that matters. The projects we make are measured by how they help people in the long term.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="location">Location</h3>
<p>
We are based in a newly-renovated space on the Harvard Law School campus. Our full-time staff positions are
hybrid/in-person; we typically aim to be in the office Tuesday through Thursday. Contractor and fellowship
positions may be remote by individual arrangement.
</p>
<h3 id="ediba">Equity, diversity, inclusion, belonging and antiracism</h3>
<p>
The work and well-being of the Lab are strengthened profoundly by the
diversity of our community and our differences in background, culture,
experience, racial identity, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, and much
more. We actively seek and welcome applications from Black and Indigenous people and people of color;
women and non-binary people; the LGBTQ+ community; and people with disabilities; as well as
applications from researchers and practitioners from across the
spectrum of disciplines, methods, and life experiences.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="slice">
<h2 id="staff">Staff positions</h2>
<div class="slice-body">
<h3 id="ed">Engineering Director</h3>
<p>
Our Engineering Director leads a team of software engineers, technologists, and academic collaborators to build open source software for both experimentation and production. The ideal candidate will be ready to mentor and support an enthusiastic and creative team; get their hands dirty solving hard technical problems; and work with the rest of LIL’s senior leadership to set goals for the organization.
</p>
<p>
<b>To apply:</b>
<a href="https://sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/Home/Home?partnerid=25240&siteid=5341#jobDetails=2006056_5341">Application form</a>.
<em>
In addition to Harvard's standard application form, please provide a short cover letter explaining how your career trajectory and interests align with our work and mission.
</em>
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="slice">
<h2 id="research">Research Positions</h2>
<div class="slice-body">
<h3 id="research-assistant">Research Assistant / Student Fellow</h3>
<p>
Students: thinking about legal tech, civic tech, or
cultural memory? We have options:
</p>
<p>
<b>Research Assistants:</b> We're seeking paid research assistants with a web
development background to help us build open source legal
tech and civic tech tools
like <a href="/projects/perma-cc">Perma.cc</a>, <a href="/projects/h2o">Opencasebook.org</a>,
and <a href="/projects/caselaw-access-project">Case.law</a>.
</p>
<p>
<b>Student Fellows:</b> We offer student fellow positions to provide mentorship to
students working on independent projects in the field of
open knowledge (legal tech, civic tech, library tech,
online governance, etc.). Depending on subject matter and
professor relationships, student fellow positions may or
may not offer stipend or credit; please reach out to us to
discuss.
</p>
<p>
<b>Eligibility:</b> Positions are open to students inside and outside Harvard,
with a preference for students at Harvard Law School and
Harvard University.
</p>
<p>
<b>To apply:</b> send a statement of interest to
<a href="mailto:lil@law.harvard.edu?subject=Research%20Assistant%20position">lil@law.harvard.edu</a>.
</p>
<hr>
<h3 id="fellows">Fellows</h3>
<p>
The Library Innovation Lab offers a small number of
stipended fellowships to people developing tools and
communities to explore the future of open knowledge.
</p>
<p>
<b>Who should apply:</b> Fellowships are a particularly good fit for people—
inside and outside academia!—with a track record of
building tools or leading communities that advance the
conversation about cultural knowledge and the internet,
and who need financial and institutional support to take
their next steps.
</p>
<p>
By "cultural knowledge and the internet," we mean
questions like: how do established cultural memory
institutions adapt to the internet age and help societies
reconstruct and remember their history? How do societies
govern themselves, coordinate solutions to problems, and
decide who to trust in the evolving information landscape?
How do we preserve today's knowledge for future
generations?
</p>
<p>
In short, who are we, how did we get here, and where are
we going? And who is "we" in a networked world anyway?
</p>
<p>
By "track record of building tools or leading
communities," we mean that we want to see your theory of
change and how it operates in the world: how have your
beliefs about who we are, where we came from, and where
we're going been translated to action, whether in code, in
writing, or in community organizing, and what are your
next steps?
</p>
<p>
More concretely, strong fellowship applicants could include:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
Coders building software to help small institutions or
communities run and preserve their own digital archives
</li>
<li>
Librarians leading movements for internet access and
digital literacy
</li>
<li>
Archivists developing novel practices to empower
communities not benefitting from traditional archives
</li>
<li>
Artists and authors helping to explore and translate the
cultural impact of new technologies
</li>
</ul>
<p>
<b>Fellowship details:</b> Fellowships are individually arranged on a rolling basis,
and may be any length from a week to a year. Fellows are
expected to visit Harvard in person for a portion of the
appointment, but need not be present full time. Stipends
are available to support full-time work, but may be
prorated depending on time commitment and other sources of
support.
</p>
<p>
<b>To apply:</b> Email a résumé and statement of interest to
<a href="mailto:lil@law.harvard.edu?subject=Fellowship">lil@law.harvard.edu</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</section>