To help fill <\/span>critical gaps in financial support for public interest students not already addressed by <\/span>Georgetown Law\u2019s nationally-recognized Loan Repayment Assistance Program (LRAP)<\/span><\/a> and the federal <\/span>Income-Driven Repayment<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>Public Service Loan Forgiveness<\/span><\/a> programs, Public Interest Law<\/span> Scholars will receive enhanced public interest summer funding. Public Interest Law Scholars going into public interest work will also receive postgraduate bar stipends.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Note: Effective 2024, the Public Interest Law Scholars Program no longer guarantees a full-tuition scholarship.<\/span><\/p>\n Public Interest Law Scholars receive valuable mentorship and support from Georgetown Law faculty, practicing public interest attorneys, and peers including upper-level scholars within the program cohort.<\/span><\/p>\n Throughout their time at Georgetown Law, Public Interest Law Scholars participate in a number of personally and professionally-enriching events, beginning with a public interest orientation designed to cultivate a strong sense of support and belonging from the start of the law school experience. <\/span>As a supplement to the robust public interest career development programming provided by OPICS to students starting in their 1L year, Public Interest Law Scholars in their 2L year also participate in a public interest seminar featuring preeminent public interest leaders from the <\/span>Leaders in Residence Program<\/span><\/a> as guest speakers and mentors. Public Interest Law Scholars are also invited to attend events such as happy hours, meals with professors and guest speakers, and professional development conversations.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Funding To help fill critical gaps in financial support for public interest students not already addressed by Georgetown Law\u2019s nationally-recognized Loan Repayment Assistance Program (LRAP) and the federal Income-Driven Repayment and Public Service Loan Forgiveness programs, Public Interest Law Scholars will receive enhanced public interest summer funding. Public Interest Law Scholars going into public interest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":3409,"menu_order":67,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3663","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3663"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25867,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3663\/revisions\/25867"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Mentorship<\/h2>\n
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