Below is a list of post-graduate public interest fellowship opportunities, organized by category. This is not an exhaustive list, and while some of these are very established opportunities, others may fluctuate in their availability and/or application timelines from year to year.
We have included general application deadlines for project-based applications based on previous years. You should visit the fellowship's webpage to confirm deadline dates and other application process details.
(Links last visited July 2022)
American Bar Association Section of Taxation–Public Service Fellowship Program - Application deadline: November (in previous years)
Berkeley Law Foundation Post-Graduate Fellowship - Application deadline: January (in previous years)
Borchard Foundation on Law and Aging - Application deadline: April 1 (each year)
Equal Justice Works - Application deadline: September (in previous years)
Independence Foundation - Application deadline: September (in previous years)
Justice Catalyst - Application deadline: December 1 (in previous years)
Skadden - Application deadline: September (in previous years)
Soros Advocacy Fellowship - Application deadline: October (in previous years)
Stoneleigh Foundation, Emerging Leaders Fellowship - Application deadline: January (in previous years)
Pride Law Fund, Tom Steel Post-Graduate Fellowship - Application deadline: January (in previous years)
Vermont Poverty Law Fellowship, Vermont Legal Aid - Application deadline: November (in previous years)
American Civil Liberties Union Fellowships
Animal Legal Defense Fund Litigation Fellowship
Business and Professional People for the Public Interest Polikoff-Gautreaux Fellowship
Disability Rights Advocates Sid Wolinsky Fellowship
Equal Justice Initiative Fellowship
Fair Vote Democracy Fellowship Program
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, Lindsay Fellowship
Murnaghan Fellowship, Public Justice Center
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Fellowship
North Carolina Legal Aid Fellowships Program
Zubrow Fellowship in Juvenile Law, Juvenile Law Center
Gideon's Promise Law School Partnership Program
Echoing Green's Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship and Leadership Development Programs
Georgetown Law Clinical Fellowships
UCLA School of Law, Binder Clinical Teaching Fellowship
University of Baltimore School of Law Civil Advocacy Clinic
Fried Frank NAACP Legal Defense Fund and Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund Fellowships
Altshuler, Berzon, Nussbaum, Rubin & Demain Environmental Fellowship
Bernabai & Kabat Civil Rights Fellowship
Immigrant Law Group PC ILG Post-Graduate Innovator Fellowship
John Gibbons Fellowship in Public Interest and Constitutional Law
Murphy Anderson PLLC Murphy Public Interest Fellowship
Neufeld Scheck & Brustin, Cochran Civil Rights Fellowship
Relman, Dane & Colfax Relman Civil Rights Fellowship
Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger Fellowship
