Post-Graduate Legal Fellowships

Compiled October 2004

Frederick Abramson Memorial Foundation
Program:
       Frederick Abramson Public Interest Fellowship

American Association of University Women
Program:
       AAUW Educational Foundation Grants and Fellowships

Alliance for Justice
Programs:
       Foundation Advocacy Initiative Fellowship
       Judicial Selection Dorot Fellowship
       Non-Profit Advocacy Fellowship

American Civil Liberties Union
Programs:
       Aryeh Neier Human Rights Fellowship
       Brennan First Amendment Fellowship
       Drug Law Reform Project
       Immigrants Rights Project
       Ira Glasser Racial Justice Fellow
       Karpatkin Racial Justice Fellowship
       National Prison Project
       National Security Applied Research Fellowship
       Reproductive Freedom Project

American Federation of Labor/Congress of Industrial Organizations
Program:

Assembly of the State of New York
Program:
       Graduate Internship Program

Berkeley Law Foundation
Program:
       Post-Graduate Public Interest Law Grant

Bet Tzedek Legal Services
Program:
       Public Interest Law Fellowships

Borchard Center
Program:
       Borchard Fellowship on Law & Aging

Brennan Center for Justice
Program:
       George A. Katz Fellowship

Business and Professional People for the Public Interest
Program:
       Polikoff-Gautreaux Fellowship

Catholic Legal Immigration Network [Site currently unavailable]
Program:

CDS International
Program:
       Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship Program

Center for California Studies
Programs:
       Jesse Unruh Assembly Fellowship Program
       California Senate Fellows
       Executive Fellowship Program
       Judicial Administration Fellowship Program

Center for Capital Litigation
Program:
       Judy Clark/Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough Fellowship Program

Center for Constitutional Rights
Program:
       William Kunstler Racial Justice Fellow

Center for Reproductive Law and Policy
Programs:
       Blackmun Fellowship
       International Reproductive Rights Fellowships

Centers for Disease Control
Program:    

Children’s Rights, Inc.
Program:
       No fellowships currently being offered [Job Listings]

Civic Education Project
Program:
       CEP Teaching Fellowships

Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute
Program:
       Public Policy Fellowship Program

Council for International Exchange of Scholars
Program:
       Fulbright Scholar Program

Consumers Union
Program:
       Esther Peterson Fellowship

Council for the United States and Italy
Program:
       Italian Marshall Fellowship Program

Debevoise & Plimpton / Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Program:
       George Lindsay Civil Rights Legal Fellowship

Delaware State Bar Association
Program:
       Roxana C. Arsht Fellowship [PDF]

EarthJustice (f.k.a. Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund)
Program:
       Rick Sutherland Fellowship Fund

East Bay Community Law Center
Program:
       Shartsis, Friese & Ginsberg Public Interest Law Fellowship

Echoing Green
Program:
       Echoing Green Fellowship Program

Emory University School of Law
Program:
       Barton Child Law and Policy Clinic Fellow Program

Employment Law Center at Legal Aid Society of San Francisco
Program:
       Felix Velarde-Munoz Litigation Fellowship (Not currently being offered)

Environmental Law Institute
Program:
       Environmental Law Fellowship (last offered in 2002)

Environmental Leadership Program
Program:
       ELP Fellowship

Equal Justice Works
Program:
       Equal Justice Works Fellowship Program

Equal Rights Advocates
Program:
       No fellowship currently being offered [Job listings]

Farmers’ Legal Action Group
Program:
       No fellowship currently being offered; Skadden sponsor only

Federal Defender of Eastern Washington and Idaho
Program:
       No fellowship currently being offered

Ford Foundation
Program:

Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson
Program:
       Fried Frank Fellowship Program

Georgetown University Law Center
Programs:
       Appellate Litigation Clinic
       Center for Applied Legal Studies
       Criminal Justice Clinic
       Domestic Violence Clinic
       Family Advocacy Clinic
       Federal Legislation Clinic
       Graduate Tax Scholars
       Graduate Fellowship in State and Local Taxation
       Graduate Fellowship Program for Future Law Professors
       Institute for Public Representation
       International Economic Law Fellowships
       International Women's Human Rights Clinic
       Juvenile Justice Clinic
       Prettyman Fellowship and Stiller Post-Graduate Fellowship Program
       Street Law Clinic Teaching Fellowship
       Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellowship

German Marshall Fund of the United States
Program:
       Research Fellowship Program

Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione
Program:
       Gibbons Fellowship in Public Interest and Constitutional Law

Greenberg Traurig
Program:
       Greenberg Traurig Fellowship

Hall & Henderson, LLP
Program:
       Public Interest Fellowship

Harvard Law School
Programs:
       Berkman Center for Internet and Society
       Fellowship in Environmental Law
       A. Leon Higginbotham Research Fellowship in Social Justice
       Charles Hamilton Houston Fellowship for Law Teaching
       Reginald F. Lewis Fellowship for Law Teaching
       Program on Negotiation Graduate Research
       Albert Sacks Clinical Law Fellowship
       Wasserstein Public Interest Fellows Program

Head Start
Program:
       National Head Start Fellowships Program

Heisler, Feldman & McCormick
Program:
       Access to Justice Fellowship

Health Law Advocates, Inc.
Program:
       Wendy Parmet Fellowship [NUSL Students Only]

Independence Foundation
Program:
       Public Interest Law Fellowship Program

Indiana University Center on Philanthropy
Programs:
       University Fellowship
       Hearst Minority Scholarship

Human Rights Watch
Programs:
       Aryeh Neier Fellowship
       Bernstein Fellowship [PDF]

Institute on Race and Social Division
Program:
       Visiting Research Fellowship

Institution of International Education
Programs:
       Fulbright Grants for Cultural and International Exchange
       Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program

Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (D.C.)
Program:
       George Lindsey Civil Rights Legal Fellowship

Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (San Francisco)
Program:
       Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Fellowship

League of California Cities
Program:
       Municipal Legal Fellow

Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office
Program:
       Attorney General’s Fellowship Program (Not being offered in 2004)

Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation
Program:
       Bart Gordon Law Fellowship

Media Law Resource Center
Old Site: Libel Defense Resource Center
Program:
       MLRC Fellowship Program

Medicare Rights Center
Program:
       No fellowships currently being offered

Mercer University School of Law
Program:

Robert and Louise Millender Memorial Fund
Program:
       Robert and Louise Millender Fellowship

Municipal Arts Society of New York
Program:
       No fellowships currently being offered [Job listings]

National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium
Program:
       NAPABA Partners Community Law Fellowship

National Center on Philanthropy and the Law, NYU School of Law
Programs:
       Fellowship in Non-profit Law
       Rockefellar Brothers Fund Fellowship in Non-profit Law

National Consumer Law Center / National Legal Aid and Defender Association
Program:
       Consumer Law Fellowship Program

National Energy-Environment Law and Policy Institute
Program:
       NELPI Fellowship

National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
Programs:
       Policy Institute Fellowship (Not currently being offered)
       Vaid Fellowships

National Institutes of Health, Department of Clinical Bioethics
Programs:
       Pre-Doctoral Fellowships
       Post-Doctoral Fellowships

National Lawyers’ Guild
Program:
       Haywood Burns Memorial Fellowships in Social and Economic Justice [PDF]

National Women’s Law Center
Program:
       Health Law Fellowship (Not currently being offered) [Job listings]

Natural Resources Defense Council
Program:

New Voices
Program:
       National Fellowship Program

New York Lawyers for the Public Interest
Program:
       Fellowship sponsor only [Click here for info]

Northwestern Law School of Lewis & Clark College
Program:
       Distinguished Environmental Law Scholar

Office of the Appellate Defender
Program:
       No fellowships currently being offered [Job listings]

Open Society Institute
Online Application Process: Click here
Programs:
       Community Fellowships Program
       Crime & Communities Media Fellowship (Not currently being offered)
       Soros Harm Reduction Fellowship (Not currently being offered)
       Soros Justice Advocacy Fellowship
       Soros Justice Media Fellowship
       Soros Justice Senior Fellowship
       Soros Reproductive Health and Rights Fellowships

Partners HealthCare Systems, Inc.
Program:
       Law Department Fellowship

Partnership for the Homeless
Program:
       Public Interest Fellowship

Penquis Community Action Program
Program:
       No fellowships currently being offered [Job listings]

Pepperdine University
Program:
       Judicial Clerkship Institute

Pillsbury Winthop
Programs:
       John Sutro Sr. Public Service Fellowship (administered through Equal Justice Works)
       Stimson Fellowship

President’s Commission on White House Fellowships
Program:
       White House Fellowship Program

Pride Law Fund
Program:
       Tom Steel Post-Graduate Fellowship

Princeton University
Program:
       Law and Public Affairs Fellowship

PSLawNet
Program:
       PSLawNet Fellowship

Public Advocates, Inc.
Program:
       Law Fellow

Public Citizen Litigation Group
Programs:
       Victoria Cotchett Fellowship
       Abraham Fuchsberg Fellowship
       Supreme Court Assistance Fellowship

Public Interest Law Office of Rochester
Program:
       Hanna S. Cohn Equal Justice Fellowship: Brochure [PDF] | Application Form [PDF]

Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston
Program:
       Rappaport Public Policy Fellowship

Relman & Associates
Program:
       Relman Civil Rights Fellowship [PDF]

Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
Programs:
       Robert R. McCormick Foundation Legal Fellowship
       Jack Nelson Legal Fellowship
       RCFP Legal Fellowship Program

Albert Schweitzer Fellowship
Program:
       Boston Schweitzer Fellows Program

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, LLP
Program:
       Skadden Fellowship Program

Southern Poverty Law Center
Program:

Stanford Law School
Program:
       Center for Internet and Society Fellowship Program

Temple University James Beasley School of Law
Program:
       Graduate Teaching Fellowship Program

United Nations
Programs:
       International Law Fellowship Program [PDF]
       Geneva International Law Seminar [PDF]
       Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe Fellowship on the Law of the Sea

U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
Program:
       Hubert H. Humphrey Doctoral Fellowship Program (Last offered in 2000)

U.S. Department of Justice Office of Solicitor General
Program:
       Bristow Fellowships

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Program:
       Honors Attorney Fellowship Program

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Program:
       Honors Law Graduate Program

U.S. Supreme Court
Program:
       Judicial Fellows Program

Yale Law School
Programs:
       Initiative for Public Interest Law
       Information Society Project
       Robert M. Cover–Allard K. Lowenstein Fellowship in International Human Rights Law
       Robert M. Cover Fellowship at Yale Law School’s Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization
       Yale Information Society Project Resident Fellowship
       Yale-China Legal Education Fellowship Program:
       Yale Fellowships in Clinical Teaching