Hauser Global Scholarship (NYU Law)

A Hauser Global Scholarship pays full tuition for the full-time LLM and a stipend towards living costs such as rent, textbooks and other study materials, for the year of study at NYU. Scholars take a full part in the events of the Hauser Global Law School Program and share the perspectives of their own legal systems with the rest of the school.

Scholars follow the LLM specialisation of their choice. Recent classes have included lawyers heading for the general LLM, corporation law, international taxation, legal theory and international business regulation, litigation and arbitration.

Candidates must be graduates of a law school outside the United States and must apply to the full-time LLM for entry in the autumn; part-time students cannot receive Law School scholarships. The scholarship is merit-based: scholars are chosen for their intellectual and leadership ability and their capacity to take part productively in a global community of scholars and practitioners.

Admission to the LLM itself is highly selective. The school typically receives about 2,800 applications a year for a full-time class of about 450, and admits students with excellent law school records and strong recommendations, taking significant professional accomplishment into account.

Even a full scholarship leaves some costs to plan for. All foreign-trained lawyers must take two introductory courses that start before the formal beginning of the semester; they carry no extra tuition, but arriving early means extra living and health insurance costs that the school's student budget does not include. Many LLM students also sit the New York bar examination, whose costs are likewise outside the budget.

Scholars who bring a spouse or children can apply for the Law School's limited family housing, add family members to NYU's student health insurance at extra cost, and apply for the University's childcare subsidy. Admitted international students are advised by NYU's Office of Global Services on visas for dependants, including the extra funds the US government requires them to show.

NYU Law encourages full-time LLM candidates to apply on the admission form for every scholarship they are eligible for, and it has other merit awards besides the Hauser. The Arthur T. Vanderbilt Scholarships pay full tuition for a limited number of LLM students; the Podell Global Graduate Legal Scholarship pays one student's tuition, living expenses and a return flight, for citizens and residents of low and lower-middle income countries; and many admitted students receive partial-tuition Dean's Graduate Awards.