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Law School Admission Council Research Grant Program

Deadline: 01.09.2007.

Scholarship administrator: Law School Admission Council
Level: not defined
Field of study: Social Sciences
Place of study: North America

 

LSAC Research Grant Program

The Law School Admission Council (LSAC) is a nonprofit corporation whose members are more than 200 law schools in the United States and Canada. It was founded in 1947 to coordinate, facilitate, and enhance the law school admission process. LSAC is best known as the sponsor of the Law School Admission Test (LSAT). The LSAT is required for admission to all United States and Canadian law schools, and is taken by more than 100,000 people each year.

The Law School Admission Council Research Grant Program funds empirical research on legal training and legal practice broadly viewed. This includes the study of precursors to legal training (including demographic variables), all varieties of legal training itself and the work that lawyers, judges, law teachers, and other legal professionals do after they complete their training (“law jobs”).

The program welcomes proposals for comparative research proceeding from any of a variety of methodologies, a potentially broad range of topics, and varying time frames.

Financing

LSAC will not pay indirect costs. However, upon delivery of and acceptance of the final report of the project by the Grants Subcommittee, LSAC will make an additional payment to the grantee institution in the amount of 15 percent of the total salary and wages budgeted under the grant. LSAC will include a faculty salary budget component only if the faculty member’s home institution has granted release time for the project, and only to the extent that the amount of release time granted is appropriate to the project. For summer salaries, LSAC will approve a maximum amount of 2/9 of the faculty member’s 9-month salary.

For more about financial ade for applicants click here.

Proposals

Proposals should include the following sections:

  • cover sheet, summary
  • project description (problem statement, literature review, and research methods)
  • work plan and timetable
  • dissemination plan, budget
  • CVs, and supporting documents.

The proposal should be double-spaced and printed in a font not smaller than 12 point. To find out more information about what you should include in your proposals go to our website 

Deadlines

There are two reviewing cycles each year. The deadlines are September 1 and February 1. Decisions on proposals are expected to be made within 3-4 months following those deadlines

Submit 16 copies plus a copy in an IBM-compatible format to Lillian Worthington, Law School Admission Council, Box 40, 662 Penn Street, Newtown, PA 18940-0040 (telephone: 215.968.1198; e-mail: Lworthington@LSAC.org ; fax: 215.968.1169). Questions should also be directed to Lillian Worthington.




 

 

 

 

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