Center on the Administration of Criminal Law Fellowship
The Center on the Administration of Criminal Law is now accepting applications for its fellowship program. The Center’s faculty director, Professor Rachel E. Barkow, and executive director, Anthony S. Barkow, will select student fellows from the current 1L class. The Center’s mission is to promote good government and prosecution practices in criminal justice matters. The Center accomplishes this mission by conducting research, publishing scholarship, and hosting conferences; litigating criminal cases, including the filing of amicus briefs; and participating in legislative, policy, and media debates on important issues of criminal law.
Fellows will be involved in the Center’s scholarship, litigation, and policy agendas. Current fellows have, for example, identified cases on the Supreme Court’s docket in which the Center could inform the Court of relevant facts and policy in amicus briefs; participated in moot courts of a lawyer arguing before the Supreme Court of the United States and of a lawyer arguing before the D.C. Circuit on behalf of victims of torture at the Abu Ghraib prison; cowritten an editorial published in a major newspaper; conducted research for the Center’s academic, litigation, and policy work; and helped plan and organize conferences and other events involving prominent legal scholars and practitioners. Future fellows will also be involved in the Center’s long-term planning and launch of future projects.
To read more about the Center, work that it has done, and its staff, including the names of current student fellows at the Center, visit www.prosecutioncenter.org.
Successful applicants will have a demonstrated interest in criminal law. Familiarity with substantive criminal law or work in a criminal law setting is desirable, but not required.
Fellowship applicants must submit the following:
• Cover letter including a statement of interest in the fellowship
• Résumé
• Unofficial law school and undergraduate transcripts
• Writing sample
• List of one or two references, including telephone number and/or email address
Deadline for the applications is April 17, 2009. Selections will be made on a rolling basis, and interviews may be held. E-mail applications to anthony.barkow@nyu.edu.
Fellows will receive $5,000 in each of their 2L and 3L years, and will be expected to work approximately 10 hours per week for at least two semesters during that period.
March 31st 2009