Centre for Human
Rights and Legal Pluralism
Centre sur les droits
de la personne et le pluralisme juridique
3661 Peel Street Phone/ Téléphone :
(514) 398-3577
Montreal, Quebec Fax / Télécopieur :
(514) 398-8197
Canada H3A 1X1 Email : human.rights@mcgill.ca
O’Brien
Fellowships – Call for Applications
The O’Brien Fellowship
was established in 2005 through a very generous gift from David O’Brien
for outstanding Masters or Doctoral students studying in the area of
human rights and legal pluralism in the Faculty of Law, McGill University.
The O’Brien Fellows become members of the Centre for Human Rights
and Legal Pluralism, an interdisciplinary research group dedicated to
studying legal and cultural issues related to human rights. The Fellows
will find a stimulating and supportive environment in the McGill Faculty
of Law, whose scholars possess a unique perspective on multiple legal
traditions, and whose students learn a rich mix of common, civil and
international law, in both French and English.
The O’Brien Fellowships
are awarded annually, upon recommendation by the Faculty of Law to the
Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Office. They are valued at $25,000
per annum, renewable once for Masters (LL.M.) students and twice for
Doctoral (D.C.L.) students (subject to maintaining good standing and
providing a satisfactory progress report.) O’Brien Fellows also benefit
from a differential fee waiver, meaning that they pay fees at the level
of Quebec residents, and one travel grant per year to present their
research results at an academic conference.
Successful applicants will
have an outstanding academic record and a strong research proposal in
the field of human rights and legal pluralism.
The deadline for O’Brien
Fellowship applications is January 15th,
2010.
Application forms are available
on the web in PDF fillable format at http://www.law.mcgill.ca/
Applicants who are not currently
enrolled in the LL.M. or D.C.L. program at McGill must also file an
application for admission to one of these programs by March 1st,
2010. For further information about admission to the graduate
law program, see http://www.law.mcgill.ca/
For further information about
the O’Brien Fellowship, please see: http://www.mcgill.ca/