Call for Applications: for Lester Fellowship Program, Deadline- 20 January 2025
Details
- Two fellowships will be awarded each academic year.
- Fellows will receive a stipend of $25,000 for a project lasting at least three months.
- The fellowships are open to early-career lawyers or law students.
- There are no geographical restrictions on the fellowships.
- It is expected that the project will comprise full-time work for the fellows for a minimum of three months.
- The deadline to apply for the 2025–2026 academic year is January 20, 2025. Guidelines will be updated on this page when the application portal opens on November 1, 2024.
Selection Criteria
- The project has the potential to make a tangible impact in the promotion of the rule of law/human rights
- The project is fieldwork (something practical), rather than academic research
- The project is practical, manageable, and realistic
- The project should be in a country different from the applicant’s own, should be a different experience for them, and should come at a time in applicant’s career where it may make a real difference to career trajectory
- Diversity of geography and subject matter
After the Fellowship
At the end of the fellowship, fellows will be invited to give a presentation at Bard’s campus in New York’s Hudson Valley (their travel and accommodation costs will be paid). Fellows will write a short report on their project, to be published on the Human Rights Project’s website. Fellows may wish to publish their report elsewhere (crediting their support from the Anthony Lester Fellowships at Bard College). They will also have the chance to discuss their work with those who worked with Anthony Lester at the Odysseus Trust, which supported his legislative work.
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