As we approach the holiday season, where thoughts often turn to gratitude and sharing, news arrives of the latest cohort of law students committed to fighting for public interest. The prestigious Skadden Fellows for the year 2024 have just been announced.
These fellowships, likened to Supreme Court clerkships, or Rhodes Scholarships in the public interest world, enable law graduates to work full-time in public interest advocacy for two years. In 2024, Skadden’s fellowship program marks its 35th year since being established in 1988. Remarkably, this program has funded almost 1,000 fellows to date.
Skadden recently revealed the inductees into its 2024 fellowship program. Twenty-eight law students and judicial clerks from across the United States are included. The newly anointed fellows will be working in seventeen cities in thirteen states, addressing a bevy of pressing issues ranging from disability rights, education equity, housing, immigrants’ rights, loan borrowers’ rights, LGBTQ+ healthcare rights, and environmental law.
In this class of 2024, Yale leads the way, boasting eight fellows. Berkeley follows with three, while Harvard, NYU, Penn, and American each have earned two placements. The rest of the fellows hail from a variety of other esteemed law schools, with the University of Iowa College of Law and the Hofstra University School of Law making their first appearance.
For a complete list of the 2024 Skadden Fellows and their assigned organizations, see the detailed list on Above the Law.
As we extend our congratulations to these committed fellows, we also express gratitude to Skadden Arps for facilitating such valuable public interest work.