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Justice John Paul Stevens Public Interest Fellowship Program

The Justice John Paul Stevens Public Interest Fellowship Program provides grants to enable law students at participating law schools to work in unpaid public interest summer law positions.  

The Foundation partners with law schools to operate and fund the program.*  Participating law schools locally administer the selection process.  

To be eligible for the Fellowship, applicants must be currently enrolled students at a participating law school.  Each applicant must arrange a full-time unpaid summer public interest law internship – typically with a governmental agency or a nonprofit organization.  In general, law schools require a written application and select Stevens Fellows based on a strong interest in public interest and social justice law, academic achievement, and financial need.  The application deadline and selection process take place in the spring at most participating law schools.  


Applying for a Stevens Fellowship

Law students interested in applying for a Stevens Fellowship should contact the public interest or career services centers at one of the participating law schools directly:
Chicago-Kent College of Law at Illinois Institute of Technology

Columbia Law School 

Emory University School of Law

Florida A&M University College of Law
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Fordham University School of Law

Georgetown Law

Georgia State University School of Law


Harvard Law School

Howard University School of Law

Northern Carolina Central University School of Law

Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law

Santa Clara University School of Law

Southern University Law Center

Stanford Law School


Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law

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Participating in the Stevens Fellowship Program

University of California, Berkeley, School of Law

University of California, Davis, School of Law (King Hall)

University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law

University of Chicago Law School

University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law
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University of Florida Levin College of Law

University of Georgia School of Law

University of Michigan Law School

University of Minnesota Law School

University of Oklahoma Law School

University of Southern California Gould School of Law

University of Virginia School of Law


University of Washington Law School

Yale Law School

Law schools interested in participating in the Stevens Fellowship Program should contact Julia Wilson, Executive Director, at julia@jpstevensfoundation.org.
 
* At Northwestern University School of Law, Santa Clara University School of Law, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, and Yale Law School, gifts primarily from former law clerks of Justice Stevens to those law schools fund the Stevens Fellowships.  At all other participating law schools, the Foundation and the law schools jointly fund the Stevens Fellowships.  
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