fellowships & scholarships

• HRP Global Human Rights Fellowships
• Satter Human Rights Fellowships
• Visiting Fellows Program
• summer scholarships for interns
• winter term funding for research
• Henigson Human Rights Fellowships
• Eleanor Roosevelt Fellowships
• Global Health and Human Rights Fellowships
• Human Rights Concentration for LL.M. Students

LL.M. International Human Rights Concentration

The application deadline for the 2011-2012 Concentration has passed. Decisions as to admission to the Concentration are made prior to the start of classes.

The human rights concentration is one of four concentrations offered to LL.M. students through Harvard Law School.The concentration enables students with a strong interest in human rights to focus their studies and work closely with other students and faculty who share this interest. The concentration is best suited for those students with either background or interest in human rights scholarship or activism who would like to deepen their commitment to the field, both from theoretical and practical perspectives.

Participants in the LL.M. Human Rights Concentration enroll in the "year-long" International Law Workshop Seminar (which meets throughout the fall and spring terms). This seminar is intended to expose students to the range of scholarly writing in international law by bringing to the seminar a cross-section of scholars engaged in some of the most interesting new work in the field. As part of their participation in the International Law Workshop seminar, concentrators will also meet separately as a concentration group for two sessions devoted to their writing projects. The seminar requires a paper that will satisfy the 25-page paper requirement for the LL.M. degree. Students wishing to write the long (75-100 pp.) LL.M. paper in conjunction with the seminar will receive an additional two credits.