Post-Graduate Fellowships
Many graduates embark on their career by obtaining a post-graduate fellowship. Organizations offer fellowships in a national competitive process, and our students and alumni have always done terrifically, as demonstrated by the list of the Recent Fellowship Recipients. Additionally, NYU offers some fellowships that are designated only for its graduates; these are described below.
A Better Balance: The Work and Family Legal Center (“ABB”): This one year fellowship allows a recent graduate to participate in all aspects of ABB’s legal and policy work.
ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project: This fellowship gives a recent NYU graduate the opportunity to function as an integral part of the Reproductive Freedom Project’s litigation team for one year.
Arthur Helton Global Human Rights Fellowship: Created in 2008, this fellowship supports one or more graduating students annually who have demonstrated a commitment to pursuing a career in international human rights law, and who have designed sound proposals for work at a host organization that they have chosen. Applicants are invited to design projects to put their legal education to work on timely issues in countries where their efforts are most needed and where there are insufficient resources for human rights protection. The fellowship will provide a modest salary for one year and will cover health insurance and travel costs for graduates to work closely with their chosen host organization. For more information, please click here.
Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama: These two fellowships for recent graduates present a terrific opportunity to work at the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama for two years with Professor Bryan Stevenson. The work involves death-penalty appeals, civil rights litigation aimed at reforming the criminal justice system, community based initiatives dealing with juveniles and people with mental disabilities, and other criminal litigation.
George A. Katz Fellowship at the Brennan Center for Justice: In honor of a great lawyer dedicated to building the next generation of public interest lawyers, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz created the George A. Katz ('54) Fellowship Program at the Law School's Brennan Center for Justice. Every other year, a selection committee awards a recent graduate with a two-year fellowship to work with Brennan Center on litigation, public education, research, and scholarship. The Katz Fellowship is offered every other year; students and alumni may apply in the fall of even-numbered years. For more information, please click here.
International Court of Justice Clerkships: New York University School of Law was the first American law school to initiate a clerkship program with the International Court of Justice in 2000. The Hauser Global Law School Program at NYU School of Law selects current students or alumni with clerkship experience, familiarity with international law, and fluency in both English and French to work for nine months in The Hague. Clerks work with international judges, conduct legal research, draft memoranda and listen to oral arguments on issues in Public International Law.
Kirkland & Ellis Fellowship: Since the 1995-96 academic year, the Kirkland & Ellis New York City Public Service Fellowships have been awarded annually to one NYU School of Law graduate to pursue public service employment for one year in New York City. Fellows are selected for their personal integrity and potential to make a positive contribution to the community. For more information, please see the fellowship website.
NYU Law and Social Enterprise Fellowship: Administered through NYU School of Law under the auspices of the Jacobson Leadership Program in Law and Business, this fellowship promotes research and curriculum development in subjects related to legal issues in the area of social entrepreneurship. The fellowship broadly defines social enterprise as the use of business strategies to solve intractable social problems and advance a social mission. For more information visit the fellowship website.
NYU/NYPD Fellowship: Created in 2009, this Fellowship is a partnership between NYU, NYPD, and the New York City Law Department. During the first year the Fellow will work at the NYPD under the supervision of the Deputy Commissioner, Legal Matters and his immediate staff and will carry out a broad variety of tasks while working with key officials of the NYPD. The following two post fellowship years will be spent as an Assistant Corporation Counsel in the Special Federal Litigation Division of the New York City Law Department. For more information, please click here.
NYU School of Law Human Rights Watch Fellowship: This fellowship partners NYU with Human Rights Watch to provide international human rights experience to an NYU student for one year.
Outten & Golden Employment Law Fellowship: Every other year, Outten & Golden will offer a Fellowship to a recent NYU graduate to address issues of workplace fairness as an attorney with the firm for two years. Applications are accepted in the fall of even-numbered years. For more information, please click here.
Reproductive Justice and Women’s Rights Fellowship: This is a one year fellowship in an organization that works on reproductive justice or women’s rights issues. Fellows may serve as a staff attorney at the organization or may create a new project with a sponsoring organization.
Robert L. Bernstein Fellowship in International Human Rights: The Bernstein Fellowship provides an opportunity for a recent graduate to spend one year doing human rights advocacy work at Human Rights in China in its New York or Hong Kong office. For more information click here.
Sinsheimer Children’s Rights Fellowship: The Sinsheimer Fellowship provides an opportunity for a recent NYU School of Law graduate to serve as an attorney with the Partnership for Children's Rights. The Fellow will represent New York CIty children from low income families with special education needs, social security disability issues and other civil matters. For more information, please click here.
Tax Policy Fellowship: New York University School of Law has established a tax policy fellowship with the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury (Tax Policy) and the Staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation. Each year, two of our J.D./LL.M. students spend six months in Washington, D.C. working at either Treasury or the Joint Committee during the summer and fall after the J.D. degree is awarded. NYU School of Law provides these Tax Policy Fellows with a stipend for the time they spend in Washington.