University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
George Sharswood Fellow Location: Penn Carey Law Philadelphia Open Date: Aug 17, 2026 Deadline: The Sharswood Fellowship was created in 2007 to encourage scholars committed to entering a career in legal academia. Each year the Penn Carey Law faculty award fellowships that fund two years of research, writing, and teaching. The Sharswood Fellowship is distinguished by fellows' full integration into the law school faculty and its emphasis on teaching classes that the fellow feels will help them prepare for the teaching they will do as an assistant professor. The Law School has an excellent record of placing fellows, and Sharswood Fellows have gone on to tenure-track legal academic positions at law schools including those at Stanford, U.C. Berkeley, the University of Chicago, New York University, and the University of Pennsylvania. Sharswood Fellows join a vibrant community of academic fellows from the Law School's Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of...