Fellowships

The Liman Center annually funds Liman Law Fellowships for Yale Law School graduates to spend a year working in public interest law in the United States, including in New Haven and at with the center. Since its inception in 1997, the Liman Center has supported more than 200 law student fellowships. Most are at host organizations around the United States, and a few are in residence, where Fellows join in the center’s research and teaching and, in some cases, collaborate with Yale Law School clinics or other legal organizations in Connecticut. 

During the last few years, the Curtis-Liman Fellow has worked at Yale Law School and with the Federal Public Defender’s Office in Connecticut to represent individuals facing revocation of federal supervised release, do research related to conditions and revocation, and helped on projects related to other forms of back-end conviction relief, to solitary confinement, and to the price of involvement with the legal system. Fellows also have opportunities to develop independent or complementary research and projects. 

The Liman Center also awards fellowships in residence for law graduates to spend one to two years at Liman where they join the center’s research and teaching projects and, in some cases, collaborate with Yale Law School clinics or other legal organizations in Connecticut. 

In addition, Liman Summer Undergraduate Fellowships give students from Yale University as well as Barnard, Brown, Bryn Mawr, Harvard, Morehouse, Princeton, Spelman, and Stanford the chance to work during the summer at public interest organizations related to law. To date, the Liman Center has facilitated nearly 700 undergraduate fellowships.