The Blackstone Legal Fellowship® is a nine-week summer leadership development program in law and servant ministry, the first of its kind and unlike any summer legal internship program offered in America. It is a rigorous program for exceptionally capable and highly motivated Christian law students from law schools across the nation. The Blackstone Legal Fellowship is designed primarily for law students between their first and second year of law school.
The Fellowship is named in honor of
Sir William Blackstone, the noted English lawyer whose Commentaries on the Laws of England were studied by virtually every American law student until the middle of the 19th century.
Interns in the program have the opportunity to closely interact with some of the nation's top Constitutional experts, and are equipped with a distinctly Christian worldview in every area of life, particularly in the areas of law and public policy. The Fellowship also addresses some of the challenging cultural and legal issues facing the Christian lawyer in the new millennium.
The goal: to train a new generation of lawyers who will rise to positions of influence and leadership as legal scholars, litigators, judges, and perhaps even Supreme Court justices, and who will work to ensure that justice is carried out in America's courtrooms.
The Blackstone Legal Fellowship has three specific objectives:
- Equip Christian law students to engage the legal culture with biblical and natural law principles
- Give law students confidence that the foundation of law on which our country was established is rationally superior to any competing legal philosophy.
- Profoundly influence Christian law students to take their training and knowledge into positions of influence where they can bring about needed change in America’s legal system.
Admission to the Blackstone Legal Fellowship program is highly competitive. There are tens of thousands of first-year law students in America; however, only 108 students were accepted to the summer of 2008 program. Criteria for selection include demonstrated Christian commitment, motivation to engage the popular legal culture in debate over principle, national and statewide leadership potential, evidence of oral and written communication skills and academic achievement.
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