The Yale Law School is currently seeking applications for an international legal fellowship, the Yale Law School Gruber Fellowships, available at the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR). CRR is an organization dedicated to advance women’s access to quality reproductive healthcare. The fellowship program is funded with the help of Gruber Program for Global Justice and Women’s Rights being run at Yale Law School.
About Center for Reproductive Rights
For more than 15 years, CRR has used the law to advance reproductive freedom as a fundamental human right that all governments are legally obligated to protect, respect, and fulfill.
CRR envisions a world where every woman is free to decide whether and when to have children; where every woman has access to the best reproductive healthcare available; where every woman can exercise her choices without coercion or discrimination. More simply put, CRR envisions a world where every woman participates with full dignity as an equal member of society.
Since 1992, the attorneys of the center have boldly used legal and human rights tools to create this world. CRR is the only global legal advocacy organization dedicated to reproductive rights, with expertise in both U.S. constitutional and international human rights law. CRR’s groundbreaking cases before national courts, United Nations committees, and regional human rights bodies have expanded access to reproductive healthcare, including birth control, safe abortion, prenatal and obstetric care, and unbiased information. CRR influences the law outside the courtroom as well, documenting abuses, working with policymakers to promote progressive measures, and fostering legal scholarship and teaching on reproductive health and human rights.
About Gruber Program for Global Justice and Women’s Rights at Yale Law School
The Gruber Program for Global Justice and Women’s Rights is a Yale University Program administered by Yale Law School. It consists of three core components:
- the Global Constitutionalism Seminar;
- the Gruber Distinguished Global Justice and Women’s Rights Lectures;
- the Gruber Global Justice and Women’s Rights Fellowships.
Who should Apply?
Applications are being invited from Yale Law School students and alumni, including JD and LLM students in their final year, JSD candidates, and recent graduates.
Fellowship Conditions
- The fellow will spend one year working with the CRR, beginning in the summer or fall of 2012 though summer 2013.
- While at the CRR, fellows will receive a stipend of $44,000 as well as a contribution towards health insurance.
- After the completion of the fellowship, fellows will be asked to submit a report describing their fellowship experience.
- Fellows will also be asked to advise future students who are interested in fellowships or are contemplating careers in women’s rights.
Last date for submitting the applications is January 30, 2012.
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