Brandon Research Fellowship 2023-2024, University of Cambridge, UK
Deadline for applications: 4 April 2023
The Lauterpacht Centre for International Law is pleased to invite applications for the 2023-2024 Brandon Research Fellowship, funded by generous gifts by Mr Michael Brandon MA, LLB, LLM (Cantab.), MA (Yale) (1923–2012) and by Mr Christopher Brandon.
The Lauterpacht Centre provides a base for research in Cambridge for legal practitioners and academics from around the world. The Brandon Fellow will be welcomed as part of the community of visiting scholars at the Centre. Whilst in Cambridge, visiting scholars will have the opportunity to meet with other researchers in their field and are encouraged to participate fully in the activities of the Centre, including the Friday lectures and the work-in-progress seminars of the visiting fellows/scholars. Visiting scholars have access to the Centre’s library, the University Library (on application) and the Faculty of Law’s Squire Law Library.
Candidates working in areas connected to LCIL fellows’ projects and activities are given particular consideration.
Fellows must produce a report of their work in English at the end of their Fellowship and deposit with the Lauterpacht Centre any publication resulting from the work undertaken during the Fellowship. The support received from the Brandon Research Fellowship at LCIL should be acknowledged in the publication.
Preference will be given to candidates who are nationals of members of the European Union; members of the Commonwealth; Argentina; Brazil; Chile; China; Japan; Panama; Serbia; Switzerland; and the United States of America.
Preference will be given to candidates who do not have the means to come to the Centre, and who have not yet been to the Centre. Applications from regions or countries underrepresented among former LCIL visiting fellows are particularly welcome.
Applications for the Brandon Research Fellowship 2023-2024 should consist of:
(1) Completed application form including outline of proposed research;
(2) Curriculum vitae (maximum four pages);
(3) Two letters of reference sent by the referee to communications@lcil.cam.ac.uk
All documents should be prepared in English.
The Applicant must ensure that his/her application is delivered by email to communications@lcil.cam.ac.uk by the specified deadline.
The Applicant is also responsible for ensuring that the letters of reference are delivered either by post or from the institutional email address of the referee concerned by the specified deadline. Unfortunately, applications received after the specified deadline cannot be considered.
Please read the 2023-2024 Brandon Research Fellowship: Guidance Notes for Applicants carefully before completing the application form.
The application deadline for the 2022 Brandon Fellowship is Tuesday 4 April 2023.
The successful candidate will be contacted within three months of the closing date.
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