J.D./LL.M. Tax Policy Internship and Fellowship
Come learn more about the J.D./LL.M. joint degree program, whereby NYU J.D. students can obtain a tax LL.M. with only one additional full-time semester of study (or 12 credits of part-time study).
One opportunity is the Tax Policy Internship and Fellowship Program, whereby one or two 3L J.D./LL.M. in Taxation candidates are selected to spend up to six months as an intern (with stipend) at the Department of the Treasury or the Staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation during the summer and fall after the J.D. degree is awarded. The fellows will complete the LL.M. in Taxation during Spring 2010 and pay no tuition during their semester as LL.M. students.
Applicants are invited to apply for the fellowships by submitting the following materials to John Stephens in Furman Hall, Room 412 by Monday, March 23 at 5:00 p.m.: 1) a letter indicating your interest in tax policy, 2) your résumé, and 3) a copy of your transcript. For more information, contact john.stephens@nyu.edu.
Another route to study tax at the graduate level is presented by the Tax Law Review, which also awards scholarships. The TLR is a faculty-edited journal of tax policy. The winners of the TLR scholarships serve as student editors, who help with cite-checking, proofreading, etc. The scholarship is one-half tuition. This involves a commitment of approximately 15 hours a week. Usually, one of these scholarships is awarded to J.D./LL.M. (tax) students. Those who are eligible to apply are current second-year students interested in the joint degree. A student must have completed basic income taxation; priority will be given to a student who has taken an additional tax course(s). This is a merit-based scholarship; selection will be based on NYU performance, college performance, work experience, writing ability, etc.
A student who is interested in applying for the TLR scholarship should submit the following to Professor Deborah Schenk, the editor-in-chief, in Vanderbilt Hall, Room 416 by the end of the spring semester classes: 1) a letter indicating your interest, 2) a law school transcript (unofficial is okay), 3) a résumé, and 4) a writing sample. The writing sample can be a lawyering assignment, a paper written for a class, a memo written for a summer job, etc.
If you have questions, see Professor Schenk in Vanderbilt Hall, Room 430H or call her at (212) 998-6163. The scholarship recipients will be chosen after spring grades have been submitted.
March 11th 2009