Harvard Law School invites applications for the Berger-Howe Legal History Fellowship for the academic year 2015-16. Eligible applicants include those who have a first law degree, who have completed the required coursework for a doctorate, or who have recently been awarded a doctoral degree. A J.D. is preferred, but not required. We will also consider applicants who are beginning a teaching career in either law or history. The purpose of the fellowship is to enable the fellow to complete a major piece of writing in the field of legal history, broadly defined. There are no limitations as to geographical area or time period.
Fellows are expected to spend
the majority of their time on their own research. They also help coordinate the Harvard Law
School Legal History Colloquium, which meets four or five times each
semester. Fellows are invited to present
their own work at the colloquium.
Fellows will be required to be in residence at the law school during the
academic year (September through May).
Applicants for the fellowship
for 2015-16 should submit their applications and supporting materials
electronically to Professor Bruce H. Mann (mann@law.harvard.edu).
Applications should outline
briefly the fellow’s proposed project (no more than five typewritten pages) and
include a writing sample and a curriculum vitae that gives the applicant’s
educational background, publications, works in progress, and other relevant
experience, accompanied by official transcripts of all academic work done in
college and at the graduate level. The
applicant should arrange for two academic references to be submitted
electronically. The transcripts may be
sent by regular mail to Professor Mann at Harvard Law School, Cambridge,
Massachusetts 02138.
The deadline for applications is
February 15, 2015, and announcement of the award will be made by March 15,
2015. The fellow selected will be
awarded a stipend of $38,000.
