The NYU Center for Law, Economics and Organization administers the prestigious Lederman Fellowship Program in Law, Economics and Business. The Fellowship provides an opportunity to work closely with NYU Law faculty and participate in a series of collaborative workshops designed to help you write a research paper on the topic of your choice.
Fellows will receive $5,000 upon completion of the program. The research paper will also satisfy your substantial writing requirement and may be submitted to a journal. The program is funded by Lawrence Lederman ’66, who is a retired partner, now of counsel, at Milbank.
To learn about the Fellowship, you are invited to attend an information session on Wednesday, February 26, 2014 from 6:15 to 7:00 p.m. in Vanderbilt Hall, Faculty Library (third floor).
Fellows are required to write a paper in Law and Business or Law and Economics (broadly defined), to register for a colloquium related to Law and Economics and to participate in a workshop series.
While applications will not be due until early March of your 2L year, we hold the information session in the spring of your 1L year because the application requires a paper proposal (among other things). Students are better able to select a topic and are more likely to have the expertise needed to write the paper if they select their 2L courses wisely. Therefore, holding this information session before you make your 2L course decisions allows us to both tell you about the fellowship and give you some advice about course selection.
For example, students doing Law and Economics topics would be well-advised to take a course in Law and Economics or Behavioral Law and Economics. Students interested in Business (or Tax topics) should be sure to have taken Corporations (or Tax) either in the 1L year or the fall of the 2L year and an additional course (such as Securities Regulation, Mergers and Acquisitions, or Business Crime). Students interested in Intellectual Property should be sure to take their first IP course in the fall of the 2L year. We strongly advise that all students register for a seminar or similar course with a substantial writing requirement during the 2L year.
All fellows are required to enroll in one of the following Colloquia affiliated with the Fellowship before graduating, but many people take these in the 3L year:
Law and Economics
Law, Economics and Politics
Law, Economics and the Politics of Urban Affairs
Law and Business
Innovation Policy
Tax Policy and Public Finance