Harvard Law School Announces New Public Service Fellowship Program
Harvard Law School has announced the creation of the Holmes Public Service Fellowships, which will fund one year of public service work for approximately 12 graduating students during 2010-2011. The fellowships will pay up to $35,000 to support a year of post-graduate legal work at a non-profit or government agency anywhere in the world.
Named in honor of the long public service career of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., the fellowship is designed to cover basic living and health care expenses for current third-year HLS students who can show the support of a sponsoring organization, such as a non-profit organization, one of the in-house HLS clinical programs that provide direct legal assistance to clients, or a government agency. The recipients of the fellowships will be announced in the spring of 2010.
The new Holmes Public Service Fellowships supplement a range of existing programs at Harvard Law School designed to enable law students to choose public service careers, including a number of fellowship programs available exclusively to Harvard Law School students for public interest work.
For additional information about the new program, contact the Bernard Koteen Office of Public Interest Advising.