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Website: www.law.columbia.edu/center_program/law_culture/Fellowships 
Application deadline: the deadline of February 15, 2008 has passed. Please consult the Website for the most current information.

Founded in the fall of 2000, the Center for the Study of Law and Culture is an initiative at Columbia Law School designed to facilitate interdisciplinary study, research and scholarship on the intersections of law and culture. Their goal is to make the CSLC an institutional site for coordinating and coalescing the important, yet dispersed, interrogations of the relationship between law and culture that are already being undertaken across disciplines at Columbia University.  By promoting and providing a home for cross-disciplinary engagement and collaboration, the CSLC will enrich each of our individual projects in law and culture studies.

The Center for the Study of Law and Culture welcomes applications from scholars in any field who are interested in spending the academic year in residence at Columbia Law School working on scholarly projects relating to the CSLC’s 2008-2009 theme:  Legal Theologies. 
  
The Center for the Study of Law and Culture invites applications from prospective fellows whose research addresses the implication of legal, religious, and political ideologies and practice.  They particularly encourage scholars whose work engages the question of legal theologies outside the.  The Law and Culture Fellowship is available to senior graduate students and post-doctoral candidates, including untenured faculty. 
  
Fellows will receive a stipend of $30,000, an office, computer, eligibility for university housing, and full access to university libraries, computer systems and recreational facilities. Fellows will be expected to participate in CSLC activities including presentation of a paper at the Center's Colloquium Series, and assistance in organizing Center events.

Applicants should submit:

1. a curriculum vitae
2. a writing sample (in the English language, about 25 pages in length)
3. a research statement (of approximately 1,000 words) that:
   - describes the proposed work during the fellowship period
   - explains the project's significance to the topic of Executive Power
   - sets forth its interdisciplinary nature
4. TWO letters of recommendation (if sent with application, letter should be sealed in letterhead envelope and signed over the flap by referee).  If more than two are sent, it is not guaranteed that all letters will be read.

Contact Information:
Center for the Study of Law and Culture
Columbia University
435 W. 116th Street
New York, NY 10027
culture@law.columbia.edu