The Hauser Scholars Program
As part of the Hauser Global Law School Program, the Hauser Scholars Program was founded in 1995 at the initiative of alumna Rita Hauser and NYU School of Law. Since its inauguration, the Hauser Scholars Program has become the leading initiative pursuing the adaptation of legal education in the United States towards an increasingly global perspective. It reflects the Law School's conviction that the practice of law and legal research has escaped the bounds of any particular jurisdiction and that legal education can no longer ignore the interpenetration of legal systems.
Each year a distinguished International Committee selects 10-14 of the finest students from countries across the world. These select individuals are invited to join the NYU School of Law community (either as LL.M. candidates or as Research Scholars) and to share their perspectives and experiences from their own legal systems with the rest of the Law School academic community. The Hauser Scholars are fully funded throughout the year of their studies at NYU School of Law and are integrated intellectually and socially in the events of the Hauser Global Law School Program and NYU School of Law.
At its inception, the Hauser Scholars Program focused entirely on LL.M. candidates who remain the heart of the program. In recent years, the program has been broadened and shifted conceptually to further focus on its academic dimensions. In its current form, in addition to the LL.M. Hauser Scholars, the Hauser Scholars Program also selects 1-2 Hauser Research Scholars who are young academics in the first stages of their academic careers. With these academics, focus is on the production of original, publishable legal scholarship. To this end, the program provides funding and support to such people in order that they can dedicate themselves in an academic environment towards completing a significant scholarly project and in addition integrates their scholarly projects with the work of colloquia, foras and seminars at the core of the intellectual life of the NYU School of Law.
Both the LL.M. Hauser Scholars and the Hauser Research Scholars programs cultivate the interaction of ideas stemming from different legal systems that is at the core of the Hauser Program.
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