Anthony Lester Fellowship 2025-2026 ($25,000 stipend) – YOA

Deadline: January 20, 2025

Applications for the Anthony Lester Fellowship 2025-2026 at the moment are open. Inaugurated in 2024, the Anthony Lester Fellowships help attorneys or legislation college students who want to undertake sensible fieldwork in human rights and the rule of legislation exterior of their nation of residence. These fellowships allow attorneys and legislation college students early of their careers to work on a mission that helps impact sensible change and are designed for individuals who might not in any other case have this OPPORTUNITY.

At the top of the fellowship, fellows will probably be invited to present a presentation at Bard’s campus in New York’s Hudson Valley (their journey and lodging prices will probably be paid). Fellows will write a brief report on their mission, to be revealed on the Human Rights Project’s web site. Fellows might want to publish their report elsewhere (crediting their help from the Anthony Lester Fellowships at Bard College). They may even have the possibility to debate their work with those that labored with Anthony Lester on the Odysseus Trust, which supported his legislative work.

Benefits

• Fellows will obtain a stipend of $25,000 for a mission lasting at the very least three months. 

Eligibility

• The fellowships are open to early-profession attorneys or legislation college students. 
• There aren’t any geographical restrictions on the fellowships.
• It is anticipated that the mission will comprise full-time work for the fellows for no less than three months.

Selection Criteria

• The mission has the potential to make a tangible influence within the promotion of the rule of legislation/human rights.
• The mission is fieldwork (one thing sensible), reasonably than educational analysis.
• The mission is sensible, manageable, and life like.
• The mission must be in a rustic totally different from the applicant’s personal, must be a special expertise for them, and will come at a time in applicant’s profession the place it might make an actual difference to profession trajectory.
• Diversity of geography and material.

Application

The deadline to apply for the 2025–2026 educational 12 months is January 20, 2025.

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For extra data, go to Anthony Lester Fellowship.