The fellowship offers a full-tuition grant to enroll in UCLA Law’s LL.M. (Master of Laws) Program. This includes the full cost of tuition, health insurance, and mandatory health facilities fees. Applicants should note that the fellowship does not include assistance for living expenses, and they should be prepared to secure additional funding to cover the remaining costs of attendance.
Fellows will earn a specialization in Critical Race Studies, as well as the possibility of additional specializations in Public Interest Law and Policy, Human Rights, Law and Sexuality, or International and Comparative Law. Students will learn the fundamentals of the discipline in Civil Rights Law and Critical Race Theory courses and will take additional coursework that creates opportunities to apply the rigorous analysis arising from the fundamentals to legal areas such as immigration, incarceration, labor, or international law.
The fellowship is housed under UCLA Law’s renowned Critical Race Studies Program (CRS). CRS’s mission is to “Think. Teach. Transform.” by working at the intersection of race and the law to train advocates, leaders, and scholars committed to challenging injustice in all its forms. Founded in 2000, CRS became the first law school program dedicated to incorporating Critical Race Theory (CRT) into legal scholarship and teaching, enabling law students to graduate with a formal CRS specialization. The program remains unique in legal education. CRS faculty include authors of pathbreaking works in CRT that have introduced widely influential ideas and concepts to scholars across the academy, legal practitioners, and the general public, as well as emergent and more recently established scholars who are expanding the field in important ways, including by incorporating new empirical methods and by integrating CRT with clinical teaching and practice, and with international human rights and migration.
CRS is a preeminent training program for the next generation of legal advocates and scholars committed to racial justice. The diverse student body includes many first-generation college graduates and those from communities traditionally underrepresented in legal and academic fields. The program supplements a rigorous academic curriculum with clinical experiences grounded in community partnerships that integrate theory and practice. CRS alumni include racial justice leaders in legal practice, academia, and government around the country and the globe. The program also directly serves the broader public through widely-accessed webinars, symposia that include and collaborate with community organizations, and through our faculty’s frequent appearance in national media and public fora. More information on CRS can be found here.
