Fellowships

  • Honors, Awards & Fellowships, American Society for Legal History
    List of links to all active honors, awards, and research fellowships offered by ASLH.
  • Program in Law and Public Affairs Fellowships, Princeton University
    Annual residential fellowships for “world-class experts” on law, “drawn from law schools, the social sciences, the humanities, and from the world of policy-making and legal practice.” Fellows often teach a course during the term of the fellowship.
  • Samuel L. Golieb Fellowships, New York University Law School
    Two to three residential fellowships granted annually to young legal historians.
  • Cromwell Fellowships, American Society of Legal History
    Annual awards given to support the research of early career legal historians. In the past the Foundation has awarded between three and eight scholars in amounts up to $5,000.
  • American Bar Foundation
    Fellowship opportunities vary from year to year. In the past, ABF has offered annual residential fellowships for advanced social science graduate students working on legal topics, as well as visiting fellowships for legal scholars. ABF continues to invite applications from both graduate students and scholars for the status of visiting fellow. Visiting fellows receive work space and possibly a computer at the ABF in Chicago, though no stipend or other financial support. The Foundation also continues to offer Fellowships for its Montgomery Summer Diversity Program, aimed at diverse undergraduates who would like to gain experience in legal research.
  • Raoul Berger-Mark DeWolf Howe Legal History Fellowship, Harvard University Law School
    One academic-year fellowship with a $38,000 stipend, for young scholars, typically holding the J.D. and Ph.D., embarking on a career in legal history, based either in law or history.
  • J. Willard Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History, University of Wisconsin
    Biennial, two-week institute, run by leading scholars in the field, for advanced graduate students and untenured faculty who are specializing in legal history; expenses of fellows covered.
  • Abdallah S. Kamel Center Research Fellowships, Yale Law School
    One-year residential fellowships for academic research relating to Islamic law and civilization. Stipends range from $45,000 to $60,000, commensurate with education and experience.
  • Berg Fellowships, Tel Aviv University
    The David Berg Foundation Institute for Law and History hosts visiting scholars each year, providing stipends and access to the David J. Light Law Library.
  • Stanford Center for Law and History Fellowship, Stanford Center for Law and History
    One-to-two-year fellowships (two year preferred) to complete a significant body of independent scholarship; comes with competitive salary and benefits, and an office.