Two Students Chosen for FASPE Ethics Fellowship

AJ Hudson ’23 and Kristin Angelle Sharman ’22 are two of 14 law students and early-career attorneys selected for the 2022 law program of the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE). As FASPE law fellows, Hudson and Sharman will travel to Germany and Poland this summer for a two-week program, which centers legal ethics by examining the conduct of lawyers and judges in Nazi-occupied Europe.

FASPE offers an intensive course of study across six fields — business, journalism, law, design & technology, medicine, and seminary. Each program brings together graduate students in professional schools, as well as early-stage practitioners, to study the role that professional disciplines played in the Nazi state.

“By educating students about the causes of the Holocaust and the power of their chosen professions, FASPE seeks to instill a sense of professional responsibility for the ethical and moral choices that the Fellows will make in their careers and in their professional relationships,” said David Goldman ’76, FASPE’s founder and chairman.

Hudson is an environmental justice organizer, climate activist, and community educator. Before law school, he spent five years teaching and eventually co-founded a public high school in one of the most disenfranchised, polluted, and over-policed neighborhoods in Brooklyn, NY. His time teaching in New York City made him especially passionate about the disparate environments faced by marginalized people, and deeply committed to shedding light on forms of de facto environmental segregation. He is one of the national board members for Law Students for Climate Accountability, on the advisory board for UPROSE, and is the current Environmental Justice Teaching Fellow of the Environmental Protection Clinic.

Sharman is a third-year J.D. student at Yale Law School. Previously a volunteer teacher through AmeriCorps, she holds a master of education from the University of Notre Dame, where she was an Alliance for Catholic Education Teaching Fellow, and majored in classics and education at Washington and Lee University, where she was a Johnson Scholar and a Bonner Scholar. Sharman will join Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York City following graduation.

Jeff Ward, Associate Clinical Professor of Law at Duke Law School, and Tanina Rostain ’87, Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, will lead FASPE’s 2022 law program. FASPE, which has more than 650 alumni, has annually awarded fellowships for the past 12 years.

To learn more about FASPE and its programs, visit the program’s website.