Institute for Law & AI Academic Fellowship 2026 – YOA

Deadline: July 31, 2026

Applications are open for the Institute for Law & AI Academic Fellowship 2026. The Institute for Law & AI (LawAI) is looking for aspiring authorized students who intend to go on the US educational job market to supply authorized scholarship on the legislation of transformative synthetic intelligence as part of the inaugural Law & AI Academic Fellowship.

The Law & AI Academic Fellowship is meant as a substitute for college-sponsored Visiting Assistant Professor or legislation fellow positions for authorized students wishing to pursue a profession in US authorized academia. The objective is to organize fellows for the US authorized educational job market by offering them with the time and assets to supply excessive-high quality, impactful educational analysis as part of a bigger educational application package deal. Fellows ought to count on to spend nearly all of the fellowship researching and writing articles for publication in legislation journals.

If you’re trying for a supportive place to discover a profession on the slicing fringe of AI, legislation, and academia, and construct your expertise underneath the mentorship of our community of researchers and associates, you’re inspired to apply. 

Benefits

This is a full-time, two-yr position. The wage for the place is $130,000 per yr.

Other advantages embrace:

• Flexible working hours, with the choice to work from the workplace in Cambridge, UK
• 5 weeks of PTO advisable per yr, plus public holidays
• 12 weeks of paid parental depart that may be taken previous to beginning or adoption and through the first yr, with the choice to take extra unpaid depart
• Employer pension or matching 401(ok) contribution as much as 4% of your wage
• Health insurance coverage for workers residing in international locations with out nationalized healthcare 
• An annual reimbursement fund of $5,000 for productiveness {and professional} growth, which they encourage you to make use of for journey to educational conferences, workshops and job talks
• An annual reimbursement fund of $5,000 for psychological well being assist
• An annual reimbursement fund of $2,500 for tools and workplace provides
• A pleasant, open work tradition that encourages suggestions and shut collaboration, and a staff that appreciates the contributions of all staff members.

For this place, they are going to provide a further $5,000 annual journey reimbursement funds to assist fellows attend educational conferences, workshops, and job talks. This is a flooring and never a ceiling, and could also be elevated if wanted.

Eligibility

You could be an excellent match for this position in case you:

• Plan to pursue a profession in US authorized academia. You perceive the fundamental profession path for authorized lecturers within the US, and have the motivation to pursue it.
• Have a mixture of robust educational efficiency and extra expertise that make you a robust candidate for future roles in US authorized academia. While there isn’t a single path to a profession in authorized academia, profitable candidates are prone to have robust educational efficiency in legislation faculty and a few mixture of the next: put up-legislation schoolwork expertise (e.g., a clerkship, personal sector authorized apply, public service expertise, advocacy or coverage work), service on a legislation evaluate or comparable educational journal, an current publication file, a concrete analysis agenda, or extra superior levels. That stated, they’re cognizant that glorious authorized students might come from numerous backgrounds and are dedicated to holistic analysis of candidates and inclusion of a broad vary of experiences and views.
• Understand authorized scholarship deeply. Whether you’ve produced revealed authorized scholarship your self, served as an editor on a legislation journal, or are merely an avid client of legislation evaluate articles, you’ve a watch for high quality educational work. You can autonomously formulate analysis questions and ship glorious written work.
• Write nicely. While prior publications usually are not required for this place, candidates ought to have the ability to show a capability to supply glorious written work product.
• Are pushed by enhancing AI legislation and coverage. You usually are not content material with analysis that’s merely theoretical or attention-grabbing, as a substitute preferring to ship actionable insights that judges and policymakers can use to enhance human welfare, safety, and rule of legislation.
• Care about looking for fact. You need to rigorously consider the proof, together with when doing so is inconvenient or complicated. You need to convey your degree of (un)certainty in your conclusions and motive transparently so that individuals can establish potential flaws or shortcomings in your evaluation. You make suggestions while you imagine that they’re nicely-supported and you’re snug withholding them after they aren’t. You see analysis as an iterative course of that advantages from critique and dialogue over time.
• Are self-directed and proactive. You are snug setting priorities, figuring out promising traces of inquiry, and transferring work ahead with restricted supervision, whereas figuring out when to hunt enter or alignment.
• Can journey incessantly. The LAIAF will probably be required to journey 2–3 occasions per yr for staff retreats and conferences. Fellows will probably be required to spend not less than one month per yr (ideally in the summertime) working in-individual with the LawAI staff in both Cambridge, UK, or Washington, DC. In addition, LAIAFs ought to count on to journey incessantly to attend job talks, educational workshops, and conferences as part of their skilled growth and job application course of. LawAI will present monetary assist for this

Application

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