Fulbright-Vanderbilt Fellowship in Clinical Legal Education
USEFI and the Vanderbilt University Law School, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., have jointly established the Fulbright-Vanderbilt Fellowship in Clinical Legal Education. Under this program, one fellowship will be awarded each year to an Indian law graduate with a demonstrated interest in legal aid to the poor and with an express ambition of becoming a clinical law teacher. The fellowship is for a period of one academic year for the LL.M. at Vanderbilt University Law School.
Vanderbilt University Law School, a leading institution in legal education in the U.S., is a center for scholarly research, informed and creative teaching, and service to the community and the society at large. The Law School website is http://law.vanderbilt.edu.
Program Content The selected candidate would enroll in a special LL.M. program at Vanderbilt and some of his/her course work and all of the research for the thesis would be directed at clinical legal education issues. His/her specific focus should be on clinical methodology, clinical curriculum or clinical scholarship and s/he is expected to approach the subject from the perspective of coupling clinical education with legal representation on behalf of the disadvantaged.
Grant Benefits The grant will provide a monthly stipend, accident and sickness coverage per U.S. Government guidelines, round-trip economy class air travel, modest settling-in and books and supplies allowances, and tuition fees. No allowances are provided for dependents. The grant is not sufficient to support family members.
Eligibility Requirements In addition to the General Prerequisites, the applicant should:
be a law graduate;
have two or three years' experience of working in an organization which provides legal aid to the poor;
have an ambition of becoming a clinical law teacher;
enclose a 'writing sample' in English - a legal opinion, published article, or an essay on a legal topic of the applicant's choice - of no less than 300 words; and
give an undertaking to return to India on the completion of the fellowship.
