Visiting Scholars Program
Course(s) Offered: Law, Social sciences, Other related fields
Course Level: Graduate (research)
Provider: CSLS
Country to Study in: USA
Scholarship Description
The Center for the Study of Law as well as Society (CSLS) fosters empirical question as well as theoretical analysis concerning legal institutions, legal processes, legal change, as well as the social consequences of law.
Closely linked to the School of Law, CSLS creates a multidisciplinary milieu amongst a faculty of distinguished socio-legal scholars inward sociology of law, political science, criminal jurist studies, law as well as economics, legal history, law as well as psychology, as well as legal as well as social philosophy, along amongst visiting socio-legal scholars from the U.S. as well as some the world.
Berkeley Law is able to adjust a express publish of visiting scholars each twelvemonth to engage inward pregnant independent legal question projects. The Center for the Study of Law as well as Society invites applications for visiting scholars for 2018-2019.
Eligibility
Application Requirements:
Course(s) Offered: Law, Social sciences, Other related fields
Course Level: Graduate (research)
Provider: CSLS
Country to Study in: USA
Scholarship Description
The Center for the Study of Law as well as Society (CSLS) fosters empirical question as well as theoretical analysis concerning legal institutions, legal processes, legal change, as well as the social consequences of law.
Closely linked to the School of Law, CSLS creates a multidisciplinary milieu amongst a faculty of distinguished socio-legal scholars inward sociology of law, political science, criminal jurist studies, law as well as economics, legal history, law as well as psychology, as well as legal as well as social philosophy, along amongst visiting socio-legal scholars from the U.S. as well as some the world.
Berkeley Law is able to adjust a express publish of visiting scholars each twelvemonth to engage inward pregnant independent legal question projects. The Center for the Study of Law as well as Society invites applications for visiting scholars for 2018-2019.
Eligibility
Application Requirements:
- Applicants ordinarily must receive a Ph.D. or J.D. (or unusual equivalent).
- Applicants must submit a total curriculum vitae.
- Applicants must submit a missive of the alphabet describing their proposed plan of question or study, specifying the fourth dimension menstruum they want to hold upward inward residence at the Center. Applicants must pursue a plan of question or written report which is of usual involvement to faculty members at the Center for the Study of Law as well as Society.
- Applicants must betoken their root of funding piece visiting Berkeley, e.g. sabbatical pay, scholarship, regime funding, personal funds, etc. Unfortunately, the Center cannot offering stipends or other fiscal assistance. Monthly minimum requirements for unusual telephone substitution scholars are: $1600 per calendar month for the J-1 scholar, $500 per calendar month for the J-2 spouse, $200 per calendar month for each J-2 child.
- Applicants must hold upward practiced inward English linguistic communication inward monastic say to produce goodness from CSLS programs.
Citizens of ALL countries (from the U.S. as well as some the world)
Participating Institutions
Center for the Study of Law & Society (CSLS), Berkeley School of Law at University of California; USA
Fields of study
CSLS welcomes visiting scholars annually inward a make of disciplines, including:
- law,
- political science,
- sociology,
- criminology,
- history,
- public direction and
- communications.
Not specified for whatever year.
In recent years, CSLS has welcomed some 25 visiting scholars annually from the U.S. as well as many other countries. In 2011-2012, for example, 23 visiting scholars gathered at the Center from the U.S. (9), Europe (7), Middle East (1), United Mexican States (1) as well as Asia (5).
Sponsorship duration
The Center volition watch applications for periods of fourth dimension that vary from ane calendar month duration to the total academic year.
Scholarship benefits
Among the benefits of existence a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Law as well as Society are:
- library privileges at the Law School as well as at all campus libraries;
- invitation to the weekly CSLS Speaker Series, workshops, as well as scholarly exchanges;
- UCB campus privileges, such every bit athletic facilities as well as permission to audit classes; and,
- when possible, assignment to shared or other piece of employment infinite as well as exercise of computer, internet, as well as other facilities.
Prospective scholars may apply to the plan nether ane of 2 categories of visiting scholars: 1) Senior Visiting Scholars – professors, regime as well as police pull professionals; 2) Visiting Researchers – Ph.D. students working nether the supervision of a Berkeley Law faculty member.
The visiting scholar application procedure consists of 3 parts: 1) Law School acceptance, 2) UC Berkeley Graduate Division (VSPA) approval, as well as 3) Berkeley International Office approving for J-1 Exchange Visitor Visa.
Please submit your application yesteryear the deadline appointment below by e-mail to csls@law.berkeley.edu; OR by postal mail to: Visiting Scholars Program, Center for the Study of Law as well as Society, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-2150.
It is of import to watch the official website (link to it is below) for consummate Admission data as well as other of import data near this program.
DEADLINES:
The deadline appointment for submission of application for 2018-2019 is November 15, 2017
PLEASE NOTE:
The Visiting Scholars Program is ane of CSLS’s most of import as well as fruitful activities, enriching electrical current scholarship as well as stimulating novel question ideas inward a “unique interdisciplinary as well as international question environment,” inward the words of ane recent visitor to the School.
Application Deadline: fifteen Nov 2017
Open to International Applicants: Yes
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