Summer Funding
Heerey Fellowships
To demonstrate its commitment to public interest and government work, the University of Chicago Law School guarantees financial support for students who engage in qualifying summer public interest or government work during the summer following the first year of law school. Funding for this program has been generously provided by the Bernard Heerey Family Foundation.
The Law School continues its committment to public-interest minded students by also guaranteeing summer funding to students who engage in qualifying work in the summer following their second year.
In the summer of 2011, University of Chicago Law School students worked at organizations such as:
- U.S. Department of Justice
- Northern Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency
- Lawyers Collective - India
- National Women's Law Center
- Chicago Legal Clinic
- Animal Legal Defense Fund
- Mississippi Innocence Project
- AFL-CIO
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Federal Defender Program
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Department of Defense - General Council
- Domestic Violence Legal Clinic
- U.S. Navy JAG
- Federal Trade Commission
- Florida Attorney General's Office
- U.S. State's Attorney - Southern District of New York
- National Immigrant Justice Center
- Free Trade Commission
- Sustainable Bolivia
- Federal Aviation Administration - Office of the Chief Council
- Securities Exchange Commission
- Solicitor General of Texas
- American Civil Liberties Union
- West Texas Regional Defender for Coral Gables
- U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime - Terrorism Prevention Branch
More details about the Heerey program will be available to students throughout the academic year.
Process. Applications will be available to 1Ls in April and the online form will be due on May 10. Funds are usually distributed during the first two weeks of June. 2L students apply through the Chicago Legal Fund website.
Questions? Specific details will be provided to 1Ls along with the application. Terms and determinations of eligibility are at the discretion of the Financial Aid Committee.