Victoria A. Roden ’21, recipient of a Family Violence Clinic Summer Fellowship Award, outside of Erie County Family Court.
Summer Public Interest Funding & Fellowship Program
Delivering access to justice while preparing students to become excellent, ethical, and engaged lawyers.
Our Summer Public Interest Funding & Fellowship Program provides financial support for students immersed in an invaluable internship experience while providing access to justice to those that need it the most, in a broad range of emerging issues. Each summer, generous donor support allows a number of students to be selected for our fellowship program; these students have strong academic backgrounds, a dedicated heart for serving in the public interest, and a proven commitment to the providing access to justice.
Currently, our Summer Public Interest Funding & Fellowship Program provides $1,500-$4,500 stipends to students with financial need who intern at a nonprofit organization, governmental agency, or in a law-related position designed to further the public interest. Funding is for students who work a minimum of 8 weeks, full-time work schedule (280 hours total). Students who work fewer weeks will receive a pro-rated stipend.
List of Available Fellowships for Summer 2024
(View a list of past Public Interest Fellowship Recipients)
- Joseph Antonecchia Fellowship
- Buffalo Public Interest Law Program Fellowship
- Catalyst Public Service Fellowship
- Class of 1979 1L Summer Fellowship
- Ross M. Cellino ’82 & Anna Marie Cellino ’81 Summer Fellowship
- Dr. Catherine Cerulli ’ 92 Women, Children & Social Justice Advocacy Award
- John P. Comerford ’95 and Hope P. Comerford Fellowship
- Dean’s Advisory Council Summer Fellowship
- Dean’s Judicial Summer Fellowship
- Douglas W. Dimitroff ’89 & Dr. Grace D. Dimitroff Summer Fellowship
- Mary J. Dowd ’80 Fellowship
- Family Violence & Women’s Rights Clinic Summer Fellowship
- Freudenheim Fellowship
- Blanche Gische & Helen Schurkman Fellowship Award for Elder Justice
- Garry Graber ’78 Fellowship
- Hodgson Russ, LLP 1L Summer Fellowship
- Kaplan & Reynolds Summer Fellowship
- Kristin Graham Koehler ’94 and David K. Koehler ’94 Judiciary Fellowship
- Kristin Graham Koehler ’94 and David K. Koehler ’94 Public Interest Fellowship
- Professor Virginia A. Leary Human Rights Summer Fellowship
- Francis M. Letro ’79 & Cindy Abbott Letro Fellowship
- onathan Malamud ’82 and Tomi Hanai Fellowship
- Charles E. Mann Public Interest Award
- Mohun Family Fellowship
- Jessica Ortiz ’05 Federal Judicial Fellowship
- Neil A. Pawlowski ’10 Fellowship
- Terry M. Richman ’86 Summer Fellowship
- Savino Family Summer Fellowship
- Clarence J. Sundram ’72 Fellowship
- Professor Suzanne Tomkins ’92 Women, Children & Social Justice Advocacy Fellowship
- UB Law Alumni Association Social Justice and Racial Equity Fellowship
- UB Law Alumni Association’s Public Interest Fellowship
- UB School of Law Public Interest Fellowship *
- Hon. Dennis C. Vacco ’78 Summer Fellowship
*Made possible by a generous grant from Francis M. Letro ’79 and Cindy Abbott Letro