AUC law graduates have received postgraduate scholarships in law in recent years through the Equal Justice Works Fellowship and the Borchard Foundation. Law School Fund: The Robert M. Cover Scholarship Program offers graduate scholarships to experienced lawyers interested in clinical law. The Cover Fellowship program aims to attract lawyers with at least five years of practice (or equivalent experience). Each scholarship begins in the summer and lasts for two years. More information is available here. The Gruber Program for Global Justice and Women`s Rights offers graduate scholarships that allow graduates of Yale graduate and professional schools to spend a year working on issues relevant to the fields of global justice and/or women`s rights. More information is available here. The Heyman Federal Public Service Scholarship Program supports Yale law graduates who wish to work closely with senior federal government officials for one year, either through an existing position or through a special assistantship. The scholarship allows graduates to explore careers in the public service and bring creative and entrepreneurial ideas to the federal government. At least two fellowships are awarded each year to researchers who work in the executive or legislative branch of the U.S. federal government. Positions that are not considered include court internships, entry-level positions, and political campaign work.
The International Court of Justice Internship is a nine-month legal internship/internship provided by the International Court of Justice in The Hague and funded by the Faculty of Law. The position is open to J.D.S., L.L.M. and J.S.D.S within five years of graduation. Since the beginning of the program for the 2002-03 term, LL.M. graduates have served every semester except 2008-09. Candidates must be fluent in at least one of the official languages of the ICJ, English or French, and a good knowledge of the other language is helpful. The Arthur Liman Public Interest Fellowship supports one year of full-time work in the United States in a law-related business aimed at promoting the public interest, usually under the auspices of an existing organization or possibly through a start-up project. The scholarship is open to all law school graduates, regardless of their year of graduation, and offers an annual scholarship of approximately $47,500. More information is available here. The Mary A. The McCarthy Public Law Fellowship supports projects of public interest, particularly in the areas of mediation and the rights of immigrants, prisoners, accused persons and women. The results of the work ranged from legal briefs and evidence gathered in support of litigation to articles in national journals, information brochures and videos.
Applications must be submitted during your studies. Currently enrolled students graduating in May can apply for funding for projects completed within one year of graduation. The Robert L. Bernstein Fellowships in International Human Rights, administered by the Schell Center for International Human Rights, allow graduates and university graduates to devote one year full-time to human rights issues around the world. Applicants are encouraged to create projects with appropriate organizations, but independent projects are also considered. The fellowship aims to promote innovative approaches to human rights advocacy or to promote work on important human rights issues that have received relatively little attention so far. More information is available here. The Robina Foundation`s Graduate Scholarship in International Human Rights enables its recipients to work anywhere in the world. The fellowships provide experience ranging from six months to one year in a number of categories: judicial internships in international and foreign tribunals with significant human rights responsibilities; internships at the International Criminal Court; internships with international human rights organizations; and independent research on human rights issues. More information is available here.
The San Francisco Affirmative Litigation Project Fellowship offers a postgraduate scholarship to lawyers interested in a long-term career in clinical teaching or public advocacy. The scholarship starts in summer and lasts one year. Fellowship responsibilities include leading the San Francisco Affirmative Litigation Project at Yale Law School, co-teaching a community law seminar with Yale Law School professor Heather Gerken, overseeing student assignments, and working directly with the San Francisco City Attorney General`s affirmative litigation task force on related litigation. More information is available here. The Yale Law School Scholarship at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague allows the recipient to spend one year on the staff of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA). The PCA was created to facilitate the settlement of disputes between states, government agencies, intergovernmental organizations and private parties. All fellows will perform important editorial and research tasks. Fellows will also organize and observe hearings and deliberations, help negotiate and resolve issues between arbitrators, and work directly with the Secretary-General to promote PCA activities. The position is open to J.D.s and LL.M.s in their final year, as well as JDS and graduates. Yale Law School Public Interest Scholarships support Yale Law School graduates for one year of full-time work in the public interest, with the option to extend funding to another year under certain circumstances. The proposed plan for the fellowship year must be one of the following: 1) legal project designed by the applicant in partnership with a sponsoring organization; 2) existing project with a host organization; (3) a staff lawyer in a non-profit organization; or (4) an unpaid internship in foreign or international courts or an internship in international law enforcement. Funded by graduate students: When most of us think about preparing to become a law professor, we think about working in law school.
But especially for dual degree applicants, it may be a good idea to look at a scholarship elsewhere at a university. For law and bioethics, a field I am familiar with, Johns Hopkins and Georgetown jointly offer the Greenwall Fellowship, which is housed at the Hopkins Berman Institute, the Department of Philosophy, the School of Medicine and the School of Public Health, and the Georgetown Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Philosophy and Law Center. The Harvard Society of Fellows program is similar, but with a generalist focus. The main advantage of these university-wide fellowships is that, at least formally, they provide access to a much wider range of faculty and other researchers. I made this caveat because, for example, even though my scholarship is based on law school, we have very close ties to people at Harvard Medical and Public Health schools (as well as to the health economics types at the Department of Commerce, the Department of Government, and the Kennedy School).
