I’m writing to let you know about The Robert Masur Fellowship for Civil Liberties, open to first-year law students. Offered annually by The Nation Institute, it consists of a $1000 honorarium for students who intend to carry out significant activities during the summer (in between their first and second year) in the areas of civil rights and/or civil liberties. Proposed activities may include a writing or research project, work with a public interest organization in the areas of civil rights or civil liberties, work on a civil rights or civil liberties law case under the supervision of a faculty member or lawyer, or any other work in the areas of civil rights or civil liberties.
Applicants should send a proposal, no more than two pages, describing his or her intended summer project, along with a resume, a brief letter of recommendation, and the name of their faculty or organizational sponsor to:
Robert Masur Fellowship
The Nation Institute
116 East 16th Street, 8th floor
New York, NY 10003
All applications must be postmarked by May 15, 2010. We would be grateful if you added The Robert Masur Fellowship for Civil Liberties of The Nation Institute to your calendar of annual grants and fellowships.
For more information about the Fellowship and The Nation Institute, please visit http://www.nationinstitute.org/p/masur.
For specific inquiries, please contact Jayati Vora at the Nation Institute at jayati@nationinstitute.org or call 212-822-0269.
Sincerely,
Frederick Deknatel
The Nation Institute
116 East 16th Street, 8th floor
New York, NY 10003
www.nationinstitute.org