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Fellowship Information
The Borchard Fellowship in Law & Aging affords three law school graduates interested in a career in law and aging the opportunity to pursue their research and professional interests for one year.
During the fellowship period, the center’s Co-Directors and Fellows Coordinator stand ready to assist each fellow with the further development of knowledge, skills, and contacts. A legal services or other non-profit organization involved in law and aging must supervise a fellow’s activities and projects. In addition to the fellow’s planned activities and project, the fellow must also provide some pro bono direct legal services to older persons under appropriate supervision.
The fellowship period runs from July 1 to June 30 each year, or for the calendar year beginning the month after the fellow’s completion of a state bar examination.
Applications are due on April 15, 2014.
Applicants must submit a completed online application including an information form, an explanation of the applicant’s planned activities and projects, a current curriculum vitae, a law school transcript, a letter of support from the proposed supervisor, and two other letters of support.
All fellowship application information and the required online application are available at https://www.borchardcla.org/fellowships/application-process.
Examples of activities and projects by Borchard Fellows:
- Working with an established legal services program to enable vulnerable, isolated, low-income seniors to age-in-place by addressing their unmet legal needs;
- Implementation of a courthouse project to help elderly pro se tenants achieve long-term housing stabilization through the interdisciplinary use of legal representation and social services, allowing more elderly tenants to “age in place” at home;
- Development of an interdisciplinary elder law clinical program at a major public university law school;
- Development of a mediation component for a legal services program elder law hotline;
- Development of an interdisciplinary project for graduate students in law, medicine, and health advocacy to foster understanding and collaboration between professions;
- Writing and publication of state specific, consumer oriented handbooks on legal issues affecting older persons;
- Analysis of Medicare policies or SSI non-disability appeals;
- Teaching elder law and related courses at law schools where fellows reside. ■