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Blackstone
The Alliance Defense Fund is the only legal
ministry in the United
States that provides regular, extensive, and top-level training through
an accredited academy program to help law students equip themselves for
future Christian legal practice and practicing attorneys successfully
defend and reclaim religious freedom, the sanctity of human life, and
traditional family values.
The Blackstone Legal Fellowship is a key element of ADF's long-term efforts to reclaim our
nation's judicial system. Law students receive intensive training in
Christian worldview principles and how they apply to the study and
interpretation of law. In addition, they receive hands-on experience
working with ADF's legal and public policy allies.
The Blackstone Legal Fellowship is a nine-week summer leadership
development program in law and servant ministry, the first of its kind
and unlike any summer legal internship program offered in America. It
is a rigorous program for exceptionally capable and highly motivated
Christian law students from law schools across the nation. The
Blackstone Legal Fellowship is designed primarily for law students
between their first and second year of law school.
The
goal of the Blackstone Legal Fellowship is to train a new generation of lawyers who will rise to positions
of influence and leadership as legal scholars, litigators, judges, and
perhaps even Supreme Court justices, and who will work to ensure that
justice is carried out in America's courtrooms.
The Blackstone Legal Fellowship has three specific objectives:
- Equip Christian law students to engage the legal culture with biblical and natural law principles.
- Give law students confidence that the foundation of law on
which our country was established is rationally superior to any
competing legal philosophy.
- Profoundly influence Christian law students to take their
training and knowledge into positions of influence where they can bring
about needed change in America's legal system.
Admission to the Blackstone Legal Fellowship program is highly competitive.
There are tens of thousands of first-year law students in America;
however, only 98 students were accepted to the summer of 2006 program.
Criteria for selection include demonstrated Christian commitment,
motivation to engage the popular legal culture in debate over
principle, national and statewide leadership potential, evidence of
oral and written communication skills and academic achievement.
Please visit the Alliance Defense Fund Web site for more information and an application.
Also, please feel free to visit with the Blackstone Fellows at UT Law: Bonnie Rust and Jack Ternan.
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