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scholarships The Amal Clooney Scholarship
The Amal Clooney Scholarship for Human Rights Advocates, launched in partnership with world-renowned human rights lawyer, Amal Clooney and the Clooney Foundation for Justice (CFJ), is dedicated to supporting those who are passionate about supporting human rights worldwide and championing change.
How to apply
The Clooney Foundation for Justice works tirelessly to wage justice globally. The Foundation works in more than 40 countries, providing free legal support to those who have been victims of human rights violations around the world.
The Amal Clooney Scholarship for Human Rights Advocates is dedicated to supporting those who are passionate about supporting human rights worldwide and championing change. The winner of the scholarship will receive one fully funded place to study a postgraduate law degree, excluding short courses, starting in September 2024.
Eligible courses
- Legal Practice Course (LPC)
- LLM Legal Practice (SQE1&2)
- Bar Practice Course (BPC)
- Postgraduate Diploma in Law (PGDL) - (conversion)
- MA Law (Conversion)
- MA Law (SQE1)
- Our academic Master of Laws (LLMs)
What are the eligibility criteria?
You need to:
- Have received an offer for one of our eligible postgraduate law degrees.
- Achieve a passing score in the Amal Clooney Scholarship online questionnaire.
- Achieve the highest score on the Written Project Proposal.
- Not yet applied for one of our courses? Browse our postgraduate law courses.
How do I apply?
To make an application for The Amal Clooney Scholarship for Human Rights Advocates, you must:
- Complete an online questionnaire and achieve a passing score of 8 out of 11 questions – Apply Now
Please note: Each applicant only gets one attempt at completing and passing the online assessment. However, there are no time constraints on completing the online assessment, so you can save & resume at any time. - If you successfully pass the above stage, you will then be sent an email about the next stage in which you will need to submit and achieve the highest score on the Written Project Proposal.
Please note: Each applicant only gets one attempt at writing and submitting the project proposal. If multiple proposals are submitted, only the first submission will be considered.
See Guidance for the Written Project Proposal.
What is the application deadline?
The deadline to submit your application is Sunday 30 June 2024.
When will the winner be announced?
All scholarship entries will be assessed by a panel of human rights experts and the winner will be announced on Friday 26 July 2024.
How do I get into human rights law?
Human rights are an individual’s rights and freedoms, which form the basis for the relationship between the government and the individual. At The University of Law, our postgraduate law courses are designed to help you explore this relationship by studying the law designed to protect these rights and freedoms, discovering relevant case studies and learning from legal practitioners with real-world human rights experience.
What courses do you offer?
Whether you’re interested in becoming a solicitor or barrister, or you’re a non-law graduate looking to convert to law, we offer a wide range of postgraduate law programmes designed to teach you the knowledge and skills needed to successfully practise law.
Alternatively, we offer a wide range of academic Master of Laws (LLM) programmes designed to help you enhance your career and master your specialism.
Once you have successful completed your legal training, you may choose to specialise in a particular legal practice areas, such as human rights.
Other characteristics and traits
Apart from educational qualifications, it takes a certain kind of person to become a human rights lawyer. As the areas of law involved are varied and subject to rapid change, a genuine interest in human rights and keeping up to date is a prerequisite.
As the law is constantly changing and sometimes unclear or untested, you must also have the ability and confidence to make sound judgements based on previous experience.
Caseloads tend to be large, so you will need good time management skills and the ability to process large amounts of data.
The work can be tremendously satisfying, but potentially very distressing so, in addition to an interest in people and good communications skills, the ability to keep things in perspective is useful.
Not the right Scholarship for you?
Are you looking to progress in your career, but wondering how you will be able to fund your studies? We understand that studying at university can be a challenging financial commitment, which is why we offer a variety of scholarships and bursaries to help you achieve your ambitions, whatever your background.
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