Law School Students and Above

ARTHUR LIMAN PUBLIC INTEREST PROGRAM AT YALE LAW SCHOOL

The Arthur Liman Public Interest Program annually funds fellowships for Yale Law School graduates to spend a year working in the United States on public interest legal issues such as welfare rights, homelessness, racial profiling, indigent criminal defense, alternative sentencing courts, immigration, workers rights, and juvenile justice. Liman Fellows work on their public interest law projects for one year, beginning in the summer or fall after the fellowship is awarded. Fellows provide the Program with periodic progress reports, including a final report at the end of the fellowship year. Fellowships are offered to students at Barnard, Brown, Harvard, Spelman, and Yale. The Program provides each Fellow with an annual stipend of approximately $44,000. With rare exception, host organizations cover the cost of health and other benefits for the Fellow during the fellowship year. Host organizations must provide and arrange for malpractice insurance.

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EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS — AMERICORPS LEGAL FELLOWS

Each year the Equal Justice Works fellowship competition selects qualified and passionate lawyers who have developed new and innovative legal projects that can impact lives and serve communities in desperate need of legal assistance. Depending on funding, they are able to provide between 40–50 two-year fellowships annually. Fellows receive a competitive salary, generous loan repayment assistance, connections to their prominent sponsors, participation in trainings, and additional support during their two-year tenure.

For more information please visit the program website or contact: 202–466–3686 probono@equaljusticeworks.org.

EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS FELLOWSHIPS

Equal Justice Works Fellowships provide the opportunity for lawyers to positively impact vulnerable communities around the country. Each year the Equal Justice Works fellowship competition selects qualified and passionate lawyers who have developed new and innovative legal projects that can impact lives and serve communities in desperate need of legal assistance. Depending on funding, we are able to provide between 45–55 two-year fellowships annually. Fellows receive a competitive salary, generous loan repayment assistance, connections to their prominent sponsors, participation in trainings, and additional support during their two-year tenure.

For more information please visit the program website or contact (202) 466–3686 fellowships@equaljusticeworks.org.

LEADERSHIP AND ADVOCACY FOR WOMEN IN AFRICA PROGRAM (LAWA)

The LAWA is a fellowship program that trains promising lawyers from Africa committed to advancing the cause of women’s right upon return to their countries. Program participants study for and receive a Masters of law degree with an emphasis on gender studies at Georgetown University Law Center. Additionally, they complete a major graduate paper on an issue that affects African women’s rights. Afterwards, they are assigned to work in various public interest or government organizations that are compatible with their interests and long-term plans such as the World Bank, or the Women’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch.

For more information please visit the program website.

ROBERT BERNSTEIN FELLOWSHIP IN INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS

The Bernstein Fellowship in International Human Rights provides financial support to allow two determined Yale Law School graduates to pursue full-time international human rights work for one year. Fellows work on a project of their own design in cooperation with appropriate organizations. The project may deal with issues anywhere in the world, including monitoring human rights developments in a specific country or countries, conducting on-site investigations, drafting reports on human rights conditions, and engaging in advocacy aimed at publicizing human rights violations as a method of curtailing abuses. An annual symposium is given every spring during which current fellows give a presentation about their work. This gives Fellows an opportunity to network and receive guidance from the Schell Center staff and other fellows as well. An annual stipend is awarded and health insurance may be provided.

For more information please visit the program website or contact schell.law@yale.edu.

SKADDEN FELLOWSHIP

The Skadden Fellowship was created to support graduating law students who have shown exceptional promise in the field of public interest law. For two years, Fellows are given the opportunity to pursue public interest work by providing legal services to the poor, elderly, homeless and disabled, as well as those deprived of human rights or civil rights. Previous Fellows have created projects geared towards economic development and community renewal. An annual salary of $37,500 plus benefits is awarded for two years.

For more information please visit the program website.

WOMEN’S LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM (WLPPFP), GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER

The WLPPFP brings lawyers to Washington for one year to work in public interest organizations on pressing women’s rights issues. The selection process for Fellows is highly competitive and draws recent law graduates from across the country and recently from outside the United States. Fellows selected for participation are placed with different organizations, including women’s rights groups, civil rights groups, Congressional offices, government agencies, and the Georgetown University Law Center Domestic Violence Clinic.

For more information please visit the program website or contact wlppfp@law.georgetown.edu.