ABF/AccessLex Institute Doctoral Fellowship Program in Legal & Higher Education
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ABF/AccessLex Institute Doctoral Fellowship Program in Legal & Higher Education supports emerging scholars’ research on access, affordability, or value to advance social scientific understanding.
Funder: American Bar Foundation
Due Dates (Anticipated): January 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: Doctoral research support
Summary: Supports emerging scholars researching access, affordability, or value in legal and higher education.
Key Information: Applicants must complete all doctoral requirements except the dissertation before the fellowship term begins.
Description
The American Bar Foundation (ABF), in partnership with AccessLex Institute, supports emerging scholars studying access, affordability, or value in legal and higher education. The fellowship supports doctoral research addressing significant issues in these fields and showing promise of a major contribution to social scientific understanding.
The program emphasizes innovative, objective, empirical, and interdisciplinary scholarship. Alongside its research support, it seeks to assemble and coordinate a professional network of emerging scholars working on these questions. Candidates may come from a broad range of disciplines.
