Professor June Tai is the Director of the Field Placement Program for the law school. In addition to teaching and supervising students in the Field Placement Program, she has taught contract drafting, dispute resolution, public speaking, and other skills-focused courses. In fall 2026, she will launch the Nonprofit Structure and Strategy Clinic in partnership with the Larned A. Waterman Iowa Nonprofit Resource Center. This new course will engage students in provision of transactional and preventative legal services to nonprofit organizations.

Her research focuses primarily on the development of experiential learning pedagogy. As a member of the inaugural cohort of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Scholars, Professor Tai is studying how storytelling—a valuable lawyering skill—can be taught through written reflection essays. In addition, Professor Tai is board member and researcher for the Center for the Study of Applied Legal Education (CSALE), a nonprofit organization that conducts empirical research tracking the development of law clinic and field placement programs.

Professor Tai has held several leadership positions in nationwide legal education organizations. She currently serves as immediate past co-president and board member for the Clinical Legal Education Association. In 2022-23, Professor Tai served on the planning committee for the Association of American Law Schools Conference on Clinical Education. She has also served as a site visitor for the American Bar Association law school accreditation process and regularly speaks on experiential learning topics at AALS and other national conferences.

Prior to joining the College of Law, Professor Tai served as in-house counsel for a Fortune 100 company and practiced at two different Bay Area law firms. Her law practice focused on complex civil litigation, with a focus on patent and other intellectual property disputes. She received her J.D. from The University of Chicago Law School and her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.