The Center for the Study of Law and Culture at Columbia University invitesapplications for residential fellowships for the 2006-2007 academic yearto undertake research, writing and discussion in ways that spantraditional academic disciplines. The CSLC welcomes scholars from any fieldwho are interested in spending the academic year in residence atColumbia Law School working on scholarly projectsrelating to the CSLC's 2006-2007 theme: Law's Back-Ground:Archiving Memory, Grounding Law. The Law & Culture Fellowship is available tosenior graduate students and post-doctoral candidates,including untenured faculty.

Founded in the fall of 2000, the Center for the Study of Law and Culture is aninitiative at Columbia Law School designed to facilitate interdisciplinary study,research and scholarship on the intersections of law and culture. Our goalis to make the CSLC an institutional site for coordinating and coalescing theimportant, yet dispersed, interrogations of the relationship between law andculture that are already being undertaken across disciplines atColumbia University. By promoting and providing a home forcross- disciplinary engagement and collaboration, the CSLC willenrich each of our individual projects in law and culture studies.

Fellows will receive a stipend of $30,000, an office, computer,eligibility for university housing, and full access to university libraries,computer systems and recreational facilities. Fellows will be expected toparticipate in CSLC activities including presentation of a paper at the Center'sColloquium Series, and assistance in organizing Center events.

Applications must be received at our office no later than February 13, 2006.E-mail applications will be accepted. Letters of recommendation maybe sent under separate cover. Incomplete applications will beimmediately disqualified.

Center for the Study of Law and Culture, Columbia University
435 W. 116th Street
N.Y. 10027 New York
tel: (212) 854-2511
Email: culture@law.columbia.edu
Web site: www.law.columbia.edu

Women, people of color, non-US and independent scholars are particularlyinvited to apply.
Reference:
www.law.columbia.edu/center_program/