Scholarships

The Lauterpacht Centre for International Law holds two annual scholarships:

Brandon Research Fellowship

Applications for the Brandon Research Fellowship open around January each year. Announcements will be made in the Centre's newsletter, social media channels and mailing list. 

The Research Fellowship is funded by generous gifts by Mr Michael Brandon MA, LLB, LLM (Cantab), MA (Yale) (1923–2012) and by Mr Christopher Brandon.

The Lauterpacht Centre provides a base for research in Cambridge for legal practitioners and academics from around the world. The Brandon Fellow will be welcomed as part of the community of visiting scholars at the Centre.

Whilst in Cambridge, the Brandon Fellow will have the opportunity to meet with other researchers in their field and will be encouraged to participate in the Centre's activities which include the Friday lunchtime lecture series, the visiting scholars' work-in-progress seminars and, of course, coffee time! 

Access to the Centre’s library, the University Library and the Faculty of Law’s Squire Law Library will be given. Candidates working in areas connected to Centre Fellows' projects and activities are given particular consideration.

The Brandon Fellow will be required to produce a report of his/her work in English at the end of the research visit. A copy of which will be retained by the Lauterpacht Centre. 

Preference will be given to candidates who are nationals of members of the European Union; members of the Commonwealth; Argentina; Brazil; Chile; China; Japan; Panama; Serbia; Switzerland; and the United States of America.

The Bohdan Winiarski Scholarships

The Bohdan Winiarski Scholarships are generously funded by the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and named after the Polish Judge and international lawyer, Bohdan Winiarski. Applications for the Bohdan Winiarski Scholarship open around Easter each year. Announcements will be made in the Centre's newsletter, social media channels and mailing list. 

The scholarship is open to candidates who are nationals of the Visegrad Group States and Western Balkans States (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, as well as North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo).

Preference is given to candidates who are associated on a permanent basis with a university or another well-established institution dealing with international law in the country of their nationality.