Unlocking Opportunities: The Fully Funded UNEP Fellowship At Georgetown USA For World students 2025!

The Fully Funded UNEP Fellowship at Georgetown Law Center offers an exceptional opportunity for students worldwide to engage in global environmental and sustainability law.

This prestigious program offers airfare,full tuition, stipend, accommodation and Medical services. It equips fellows with the knowledge and skills needed to tackle pressing environmental challenges, fostering a new generation of advocates committed to sustainable development and policy change.

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The Global Environment and Sustainability Law Fellowship is an opportunity for public sector lawyers from developing countries to earn a Georgetown LL.M. and to gain international legal experience with a posting at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, or at one of its regional offices around the world.

United Nations Environment Programme Internship

Gain valuable international environmental law and policy experience with the United Nations through a 3-month internship at UNEP headquarters in Nairobi or one of UNEP’s regional offices around the world.

Fellowship Benefits

The Program helps defray the costs for candidates who would not otherwise be able to cover all of the necessary costs of an LL.M. degree and professional experience including:

• Tuition costs for the LL.M. at Georgetown Law, including the Summer Experience Program;
• All required textbooks;
• A monthly stipend to cover living expenses during the internship with UNEP;
• Health insurance for the duration of the LL.M. and internship;
• Flights to and from Washington, DC, before and after the LL.M.; and
• Flights to and from UNEP posting, before and after the internship.

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Please note that the Fellowship does not cover living expenses in Washington, DC.  Fellows must be prepared to cover the costs of housing, food and other personal expenses for the duration of the LL.M. program.

Eligibility

To be eligible for this fellowship, a candidate must:

1. Reside in a developing country;
2. Possess the requisite degree to practice law in his or her home country; 
3. Be currently employed by a national or local government entity; and,
4. Be engaged in practicing environmental law, energy law, natural resources law or a related legal field.

Fellows must commit to return to their home country to continue working in public sector environmental law for no less than three years.

Application Process

National Focal Points (NFP) to the Montevideo Environmental Law Programme are invited to nominate candidates by email.  Nominations should be accompanied by a curriculum vitae of the nominee, of no more than two pages. Each NFP may nominate up to two candidates.  Nominees will be reviewed and shortlisted, and short-listed candidates will be provided with a waiver of application fees. 

Any other interested candidates can also apply directly to Georgetown and indicate their interest in the Fellowship on their LL.M. application. Candidates who apply directly are not eligible for application fee waivers. Visit the Georgetown Law Graduate Admissions page for application forms and other information on requirements, deadlines and processes.  

All candidates must submit a supplemental essay of 500 words or less on an issue of environmental law or policy of particular interest, with their application.

Dates and Deadlines 

15 November 2024 – National Focal Points submit nominations to unep-montevideo@un.org, including curriculum vitae of no more than two pages for each nominee.

5 January 2025 – Shortlist is finalized and shortlisted candidates provided with fee waivers for application to Georgetown Law.

5 February 2025 – Deadline for all candidates to apply to Georgetown Law to be considered for the Fellowship

Contact us

For questions or assistance, please contact UNEP-Montevideo at unep-montevideo@un.org or Lydia Slobodian at Georgetown Law at lns27@georgetown.edu. 

For more information visit Official Webpage