Texas Tech University School of Law

Student Public Interest Initiative

Summer Grant Info

Phone: 806-742-3787 ext. 239

E-mail: SPII.law@ttu.edu

 

How Grants are Awarded… Any law student at Texas Tech School of Law can apply for summer funding from SPII.  The student must:

(1) Demonstrate that s/he has exhausted all other funding available to him/her and that the work that the student proposes to do would be impossible without funding from SPII

(2) Demonstrate that the summer work s/he proposes to do fits within SPII’s definition of public interest work

The student turns in his/her application to the faculty sponsor of SPII, who will remove the student’s name from the application and assign a number to the application.  The faculty sponsor will then turn the applications over to SPII, and each member of the board of directors will rank the applications, and the students whose applications have the highest cumulative rankings will be funded to the extent that funding is available for the given summer.

 

Students receiving summer funding from SPII can either work with an organization that does work on behalf of disempowered or underrepresented people, or can work on an independent project that addresses a specific social problem under the supervision of an attorney or organization that is capable of offering guidance and expertise to the student.

 

Once the students have been notified of their summer grant, the summer grant director will contact the student’s supervisor to ensure that they will keep track of the student’s work hours and provide proper guidance during the student’s internship.

 

 

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