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 of these fields.
Funder: American Bar Foundation
Due Dates (Anticipated): January 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: Doctoral fellowship support
Summary: Supports emerging scholars researching access, affordability, or value in legal and higher education through empirical and interdisciplinary doctoral research.
Key Information: Applicants must complete all doctoral requirements except the dissertation before their fellowship term begins.
Description
The American Bar Foundation (ABF), in partnership with the AccessLex Institute, supports emerging scholars studying access, affordability, or value in legal and higher education. The fellowship welcomes candidates across a broad range of disciplines whose doctoral research addresses significant issues in these fields and shows promise of making a major contribution to their social scientific understanding.
The program seeks to assemble and coordinate a professional network of scholars producing innovative, objective, empirical, and interdisciplinary research. Within the ABF’s doctoral fellowship programs, fellows focus on completing their dissertations while benefiting from a residence-based empirical and interdisciplinary research institute. Doctoral fellows also receive coaching and support to prepare for the academic job market.
