Description
The University of Toronto Faculty of Law and its Centre for Innovation Law and Policy (CILP) welcome applications for the Graduate Fellowships in Innovation Law and Policy. The CILP sponsors approximately five fellowships each year, each in the range of $5,000 to $25,000. The Ontario Research and Development Challenge Fund generously established these awards for the benefit of outstanding Master of Laws (LLM) or Doctor of Juridical Sciences (SJD) candidates conducting research on the laws, institutions and policies that affect, or are affected by, innovation and technological change. Innovation Law Fellows are strongly encouraged to contribute to CILP’s activities by assisting with conferences or similar events, participating in policy advisory or teaching initiatives, or contributing to faculty research projects.
Application Process
Interested students must apply to either the LLM or SJD program at the U of T Faculty of Law and indicate their interest in this fellowship program on the application form AND the financial aid application. The deadline for applications this year is February 15, 2014.Fellows are chosen by a subcommittee led by the Associate Dean, Graduate Studies based on academic record, financial need, and research proposal. The fellowship program is open to both domestic and international students.
About CILP
The Centre for Innovation Law and Policy supports and facilitates the study of law and its relationship to technology, by sponsoring and cultivating research, teaching, and knowledge exchange on law, legal theory, and policy related to technology, broadly understood. As a scholarly research centre, the Centre is open to interdisciplinary approaches, including law’s dialogue with the humanities. The Centre faculty approach foundational, theoretical and topical issues concerning law and technology through the rubrics of law, philosophy, political science, economics and cultural studies, with particular expertise in intellectual property, cyberlaw, privacy, and biotechnology law. For more information about the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy, please visit http://www.innovationlaw.org/
About the U of T Faculty of Law Graduate Program
The University of Toronto provides a stimulating and inter-disciplinary intellectual environment for domestic and international students pursuing graduate education in law. Our student body is small (approximately 50 LLM and 10 SJD students admitted each year), yet culturally and academically diverse. We offer several different graduate programs that address the needs of students at different stages of their legal studies – including a one-year LLM degree in either a thesis-intensiveor coursework-intensive format, and a doctoral or SJD program. All of our graduate students have the opportunity to tailor their own academic program based on their research interests and career goals. For more information about the U of T Faculty of Law Graduate Program as well as this and other funding opportunities, please visit http://www.law.utoronto.ca/academic-programs/graduate-programs.
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