Fellowships: Seevak Fellowship Deadline Extended to December 13

At student request, the deadline for submitting an application for the Seevak Fellowships on elections and election law has been extended one week. 1Ls interested should email a resume and a cover letter to Professor Jim Greiner at jgreiner@law.harvard.edu. The original announcement appears below.

Voting Rights/Election Law Opportunity for 1Ls!!

             Harvard Law School, in conjunction with the Seevak Fellowship Program, is excited to announce the creation of two Seevak Fellowships, a unique opportunity for HLS first year law students interested in voting rights, redistricting, and election law issues.

             Professors at the Harvard Law School, the Harvard Department of Government, and the Suffolk Department of Political Science are in the early stages of creating an ongoing project that will seek to improve the administration and efficacy of elections in and around the City of Boston. In its beginning phase, the project will concentrate on three primary aims:

            -- improved recruiting and training of poll workers;

            -- measuring (via exit polls) the effects of different poll worker education schemes on indicators of voting efficiency (e.g., vote cancellation rates); and

            -- gathering and assessing data regarding voting patterns by race, ethnicity, and other demographic characteristics, with an eye to both substantive results of interest and improved quantitative techniques in this area.

            To support this effort, the Seevak Program, a creation of the late Sheldon Seevak (HLS Class of 1953), has provided funding for two Seevak Fellows. Fellows will be provided a stipend of $6,000.00 for full-time work in the Summer of 2008. In addition, Fellows will be paid at the standard HLS research assistant rate for on average about 5-7 hours per week of work during the Spring and Fall of 2008 (the weekly commitment will vary substantially over time). Fellows will participate in all aspects of the project, including concept formation, identification and resolution of legal issues, fundraising, and recruitment of poll workers and exit pollsters (including contact with non-English speaking populations). Note that Fellows must reside in the Boston area over the 2008 Summer.

            Persons interested should send a cover letter discussing any relevant experience and a resume to Professor Jim Greiner at jgreiner@law.harvard.edu. No prior experience with election law issues is required, but the selection committee will consider such experience in its deliberations. Please send a cover letter and resume to Professor Jim Greiner (jgreiner@law.harvard.edu) NO LATER THAN 5 PM ON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13. Also, although no statement of interest or writing sample is necessary, applicants should feel free to discuss (briefly!) in cover letters any previous experiences they believe relevant to Fellowship goals.