UNEP-Georgetown Law Global Environment and Sustainability Law Fellowship 2025-2026 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: Unspecified

Applications are open for the UNEP-Georgetown Law Global Environment and Sustainability Law Fellowship 2025-2026. The Global Environment and Sustainability Law Fellowship is an OPPORTUNITY for public sector attorneys from creating nations to earn a Georgetown LL.M. and to realize worldwide authorized expertise with a posting on the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, or at certainly one of its regional workplaces world wide.

Launched in 2016, the UNEP – Georgetown Law Global Environment and Sustainability Law Fellows program has supported Fellows from Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Chile, Fiji, Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria, Peru, Uganda, Uruguay, and Zimbabwe. Equipped with the information and experiential coaching gained at Georgetown Law and UNEP, Fellows have gone on to positions in authorities ministries, environmental businesses and worldwide organizations, in addition to positions of conventional authority.

Benefits

The Program helps defray the prices for candidates who wouldn’t in any other case have the ability to cowl all the essential prices of an LL.M. diploma and skilled expertise together with:

• Tuition prices for the LL.M. at Georgetown Law, together with the Summer Experience Program;
• All required textbooks;
• A month-to-month stipend to cowl dwelling bills in the course of the internship with UNEP;
• Health insurance coverage all through the LL.M. and internship;
• Flights to and from Washington, D.C., earlier than and after the LL.M.;
• Flights to and from the UNEP posting, earlier than and after the internship.

Note that the Fellowship doesn’t cowl dwelling bills in Washington, D.C. Fellows should be ready to cowl the prices of housing, meals and different private bills all through the LL.M. program.

Eligibility

To be eligible for this Fellowship, a candidate should:

• Reside in a creating nation;
• Possess the requisite diploma to observe legislation in his or her home nation;
• Be at the moment employed by a nationwide or native authorities entity; and,
• Be engaged in working towards environmental legislation, vitality legislation, pure sources legislation or a associated authorized area.

Fellows should decide to return to their home nation to proceed working in public sector environmental legislation for at least three years.

Application

National Focal Points (NFP) to the Montevideo Environmental Law Programme are invited to appoint candidates by electronic mail. Nominations ought to be accompanied by a curriculum vitae of the nominee, of not more than two pages. Each NFP could nominate as much as two candidates. Nominees will probably be reviewed and shortlisted, and shortlisted candidates will probably be supplied with a waiver of application charges.

Any different candidates also can apply on to Georgetown and point out their curiosity within the Fellowship on their LL.M. application. Candidates who apply straight will not be eligible for application price waivers. Visit here for application varieties and different data on necessities, deadlines and processes.

All candidates should submit a supplemental essay of 500 phrases or much less on a problem of environmental legislation or coverage of specific curiosity, with their application.

For extra data, go to UNEP-Georgetown Law Fellowship.