The ABF partners with the AccessLex Institute to support emerging scholars studying issues of access, affordability, or value in legal and higher education. This fellowship program seeks to assemble and coordinate a professional network of scholars who will produce innovative, objective, empirical, and interdisciplinary research in the field.
Applications are invited from outstanding students who are candidates for LLM degrees, SJD degrees, and Ph.D. degrees across a broad range of disciplines, who will have completed all doctoral requirements except the dissertation by the beginning of their term. Doctoral research must address significant issues in the field and show promise of a major contribution to social scientific understanding of legal or higher education. Students from underrepresented minority groups and those attending schools not typically represented among law faculty are especially encouraged to apply. While there are no citizenship requirements for this fellowship, please note that we do not have the institutional capacity to sponsor visas, and the ABF is unable to advise on individual visa matters. If you have questions, we encourage you to discuss your circumstances with the international student services office at your institution
To view a list of past ABF/AccessLex Institute Doctoral Fellows, visit the Former Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellows page.