CodeX Resident Fellowship

CodeX–The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics is accepting applications for a Resident Fellowship for the 2017-18 academic year. CodeX is a cross-disciplinary research center jointly operated by Stanford Law School and the Stanford School of Engineering. The center’s mission is to explore the application of technology toward improving the quality, efficiency, and accessibility of the legal system. The university recruits talent year-round and annually fills more than 1,000 staff positions, mostly full-time.

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Eligibility:

  • Because the primary focus of the center is employing technology within the law, applicants should also have experience in the legal, computer science or engineering related fields.
  • They welcome applicants with practical/professional technical experience in these fields as well as those with formal legal, computer science or engineering undergraduate or graduate training.
  • Applicants should be capable of learning and be comfortable with the technological aspects of the center’s projects.

How to Apply:

The candidates must login themselves through the given link, to be enter in fellowship program:

https://stanfordcareers.stanford.edu/job-search?jobId=72800

Supporting Documents:

  • A resume
  • A brief letter (no more than 2 pages) describing the applicant’s interest in issues applying technology to the law, the applicant’s background, and the research that they propose to conduct
  • A list of references

Financial Aid and Award Money:

  • The university recruits talent year-round and annually fills more than 1,000 staff positions, mostly full-time.
  • Fellows will have the opportunity to spend one to two years at Stanford Law School collaborating with scholars in computer science and other relevant disciplines. Fellows will work on the center’s existing projects and will have the opportunity to explore related research on their own and commence new projects.
  • Fellows will work with cutting-edge technologies emerging from Stanford’s engineering departments and will be expected to bring a legally oriented perspective toward integrating these technologies into the law.
  • Fellows will also be involved in bringing in leading thinkers in the field to speak at the law school on these topic areas and will work with law and computer science students to engage them in the center’s activities.

Application Deadline:

The completed application must be received by December 15, 2016.

Link for More Information:

https://law.stanford.edu/2016/10/31/codex-fellowship-201718-application-deadline-12-15-2016/

Contact Information:

For more information, contact CodeX Executive Director Roland Vogl at rvogl-at-law.stanford.edu.

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