Fully Funded Fellowships in Professional Ethics and Ethical Leadership from FASPE

FASPE Law Fellowships are now available for applicants all over the world. FASPE offers a two-week study fellowship program in professional ethics and ethical leadership. This fellowship is designed to challenge Fellows to critically examine constructs, current developments and issues that raise ethical concerns in their professions in contemporary settings in which they work.

Program Objectives:-

• FASPE Law challenges its Fellows to recognize their responsibility to act as ethical leaders in their law careers. 

• FASPE begins by examining the actions and choices of German lawyers and judges in enabling and executing Nazi policies. 

• FASPE then draws on this historical example to help Law Fellows grasp their role and responsibility as professionals in their communities and to lead them to identify and confront the ethical issues currently facing lawyers and the legal profession.

Eligibility:-

• FASPE Law applicants must fit into one of the following three categories:

  • Be enrolled in a JD or LLM program (or equivalent program). 

  • Be working in the legal profession (including a clerkship) at the time of their application and have received a JD or LLM between May 2019 and January 2021. 

  • Be working as a trainee or similar position after having completed their requisite legal training in the applicable jurisdiction.

• FASPE seeks Fellows who are about to embark on their career as professionals, are interested in engaging in discussions with their co-Fellows and faculty, and who have the intellectual and emotional maturity to unpack difficult and controversial issues responsibly and respectfully in small group settings. 

• FASPE selects its Fellows on the basis of their academic background, personal and professional experiences, capacity for leadership and ability to contribute to the program and the alumni community.\

Program Topics:-

• The complicity of German lawyers in the design and execution of Nazi racial laws and genocidal policies.

• The difference between legal compliance and rules of ethics, on the one hand, and ethical behavior, on the other.

• The ethical challenges of ambition in professional development ethics and government lawyering.

• Legal ethics in the context of technological innovations.

• Navigating multiple loyalties to employers, clients, systems of justice, legal frameworks and more.

• Tactics to address ethical issues within law firms and other institutions.

Benefits:-

• FASPE Fellowships are fully funded so that financial ability does not affect participation.

• Fellows spend two weeks in Berlin and Poland, where they visit key sites of Nazi history and participate in daily seminars led by specialized faculty. The program couples the power of place with academic rigor and many informal opportunities for creative exchange.

• Law Fellows travel with Business and Journalism Fellows, allowing them to broaden their understanding of the role of professionals over shared meals and activities and in several interdisciplinary seminars.

About FASPE:-

Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE) challenges graduate students and future leaders to recognize and confront their ethical responsibilities as professionals by analyzing the decisions and actions of Nazi-era professionals. In 2019, FASPE awarded fellowships to 69 individuals (14 in Business, 14 in Journalism, 13 in Law, 14 in Medical and others) out of a large pool of applicants from across the world. FASPE’s fellowship programs are led by distinguished faculty comprised of university professors and practicing professionals in the previous disciplines, along with leading ethicists and historians who have specific expertise in the role of the professions in Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe from 1933 to 1945.

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