Lederman/Milbank Fellowships in Law and Economics
To foster research and study in the area of law, economics and business, each year eight 2L (or J.S.D) students will be selected as Lederman/Milbank Fellows and will receive an $8,000 stipend. The stipend is awarded at the end of the program (which is at the end of the third year of law school).
Fellows are expected to write a substantial paper in law and economics or law and business that is supervised by a faculty member. The fellowship paper can be a paper written for a seminar or an independent research paper written under the supervision of a faculty member. Fellows are also expected to attend a seminar or colloquium in the area of law, economics and business (including tax policy and innovation policy). Finally, they are expected to attend a noncredit workshop for the fellows where each student will present a draft of his/her paper (the workshop will meet four times) and to present their paper at a one-day symposium hosted by Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, LLP.
Fellows will be selected in early Spring 2009. A separate announcement with the specific application deadline will be sent in January 2009. The goal of this announcement, which follows an earlier announcement from last spring, is to give potential applicants a “heads-up” and avoid a last-minute scramble to identify a research topic, formulate a research proposal and find a faculty supervisor.
Further information can be found on the Web site of the Center for Law, Economics and Organization.
November 26th 2008