Financial Aid for Graduate Students
Georgetown offers financial aid for graduate students in the form of loans. International students interested in attending Georgetown Law are expected to be able to finance the entire course of study. For more information about financial aid for U.S. citizens, permanent residents and international students please visit the Financial Aid website at www.law.georgetown.edu/finaid/apply.
The Financial Aid Office also maintains a list of scholarships and loans given by organizations outside the Georgetown Law. Georgetown Law has no connection with any of the organizations and maintains the lists solely as a service to its students.
Georgetown does offer a very limited number of fellowships and scholarships to graduate students. For more information on the programs outlined below, please see the Fellowship Section on the Graduate Programs website.
Specific Scholarships & Fellowships for Graduate Students
The selection of Graduate Tax Scholars will be based on academic merit and demonstrated potential for excellence in the field of taxation. To apply for the program, indicate your interest in being considered for the scholarship on your application form, and submit a supplemental essay of no more than 500 words on an issue of tax law or policy that is of interest to you. Applications to the Graduate Tax Scholars program will be considered on a rolling basis, as soon as your LL.M. application is fully completed and we receive your supplemental essay. We anticipate that the committee will choose all the Scholars for 2010-2011 by April 1, 2010; therefore, early applications are encouraged.
Global Health Law Fellows will be selected on the basis of their (1) academic qualifications in the fields of law/ethics and public health, health policy, health economics, bioethics or other relevant disciplines; (2) public or private sector work experience on global or domestic health law issues; and (3) demonstrated potential for excellence within the field of global health law. Students' financial needs may also be considered.
Applications for Global Health Law Fellowships will be considered on a rolling basis, but applicants who wish to be considered for the scholarship must complete their applications by February 16 at the latest. In addition to the regular application materials, applicants for Global Health Law Fellowships should submit a supplemental essay of no more than 500 words. In this essay you should briefly discuss an issue of health law or policy that is of interest to you.
Georgetown/COST Fellowships in State and Local Taxation
The selection of Georgetown/Council on State Taxation (COST) Fellows will be based on academic merit and experience and/or interest in the field of state and local taxation. Only candidates who earned their J.D. degree at ABA/AALS-accredited law schools in the U.S. are eligible for these awards. Preference in the selection will be given to full-time students.
To apply for a COST Fellowship, please submit a completed Georgetown University Law Center LL.M application to the Taxation program (including all required supplementary materials) and indicate your interest in the COST fellowship on your application form. An unedited, unpublished, and analytical writing sample of at least 10 pages in length must be submitted to the Graduate Admissions Office by July 1, 2009. Program applicants may be interviewed and participants selected at the beginning of the fall semester.
KPMG Tax Scholarship
The KPMG Tax Scholarship is a partial scholarship awarded annually on the basis of financial need and academic proficiency in the field of taxation. It is open to both U.S. and foreign-trained applicants. There's no additional application procedure for this scholarship; selected candidates will be invited to apply based on their LL.M. application materials.
Georgetown Law Research Fellowships
Georgetown Law is pleased to announce the creation of a new Research Fellowship for emerging scholars who seek to pursue a law teaching career. We are seeking applicants who have demonstrated an aptitude for independent legal research, as demonstrated by their work as students or by their professional activities after law school. There are no subject-matter restrictions on the research or teaching agenda fellows may wish to pursue. We expect that candidates will have widely varied intellectual interests, ranging across the full spectrum of legal scholarship. For more details on this program, please go to http://www.law.georgetown.edu/researchfellows/index.htm. Applications to this program are not reviewed on a rolling basis but are reviewed as a group after the application deadline.
Institute of International Economic Law (IIEL) Fellowships
The Institute of International Economic Law (IIEL) selects Fellows each year based on academic merit and experience in issues related to IIEL's ongoing research. The Fellowships are honorary and the Fellows receive no funding from the IIEL. Both LL.M. and S.J.D. are eligible for appointments as IIEL fellows. Preference in the selection will be given to full-time students.
To apply for an IIEL Fellowship, submit a completed Georgetown Law application for the LL.M. or S.J.D. program (including all required supplemental materials) to the Graduate Admissions Office, and an IIEL Fellowship application directly to the IIEL by February 15, 2010. The Committee will inform applicants of its decision on or before May 1, 2009.
General Scholarships for International Students
Georgetown Law awards up to a small number of partial scholarships to foreign-educated lawyers who apply to the LL.M. program. To be eligible for consideration for a scholarship, applicants must submit a completed LL.M. application no later than the February 16, 2009 regular deadline (although awards may be made on a rolling basis). On the basis of students' LL.M. applications, Georgetown Law will select a group of applicants and invite them to apply for the scholarships.
