Law School Scholarships
General Resources:
- Equal Justice Works' Guide to Law School - provides side-by-side comparisons of financial aid and affordability factors, faculty engagement, student leadership, the range of clinical, externship and pro bono opportunities, and curricular and co-curricular offerings in specific issue areas.
- AdmissionsDean - AdmissionsDean is attempting to build the largest free database of private law school scholarships on the Internet. They organized their Scholarship Finder by demographic and topical categories, as well as by specific law schools that offer private scholarships to their own students.
- The Council on Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO)
- Scholarships available for students enrolled in our College of Law
Alphabetical Index of Scholarships
These scholarships are currently posted on the Internet. This is not a comprehensive list. We are providing this as a starting point for your own research on available outside awards.
- ABA Legal Opportunity Scholarships
- African-American Law Student Fellowship Program
- American Association of University Women Scholarship Directory
- Earl Warren Civil Rights Training Scholarships
- Equal Justice America Fellowship Program
- Finnegan Henderson Diversity Scholarship
- Herbert Lehman Scholarships for African-American Law Students
- Hispanic Lawyers Scholarship Fund
- Japanese American Citizens League Scholarship Program
- Korean American Bar Association Scholarship Fund
- MALDEF Law School Scholarship Program
- Massachusetts Bar Foundation Legal Intern Fellowship Program
- NAPABA Law Foundation Scholarships
- National Italian American Foundation Scholarship Program Regional Scholarships
- Sidney B. Williams, Jr. Intellectual Property Law School Scholarships
- Thurgood Marshall Law School Awards
- The William H. Gates Public Service Law Program (the Gates PSL Program or the “Program”) at the University of Washington
- Women's Research and Education Institute Congressional Fellowship on Women and Public Policy
Outreach Programs
Financing Law School
- Paying for Graduate School - from U.S. News and World Reports
- The "Wise Borrower" Curriculum is designed to help increase your understanding of personal finance and debt management
- Financial Aid for Law School - This is the web site of the Law School Admissions Council
Updated September 30, 2011