Postgraduate Public Interest Fellowships

Penn Law students and graduates pursue and attain some of the most prestigious postgraduate public interest fellowships. Postgraduate public interest fellowships allow talented and committed lawyers to join public interest and nonprofit organizations in entry-level attorney positions. Fellowships such as the Skadden Public Interest Fellowship, Equal Justice Works Fellowships, Soros Foundation Fellowships, the Center on Crime Community and Culture Postgraduate Fellowships, and the Independence Foundation Fellowship allow graduating law students and attorneys to create public interest projects with existing nonprofit organizations.

Other fellowships include programs that lead to an LL.M. degree or that allow the fellow to teach or supervise students in a clinical setting; programs sponsored by public interest organizations; and programs sponsored by law firms or bar associations. Recent Penn graduates have secured fellowships with the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund (NYC), the Juvenile Law Center (Philadelphia), the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project (AZ), the Human Rights Institute Fellowship at Columbia Law School (NYC), and the Bristow Fellowship (DC).