The Steven M. Polan Fellowship in Constitutional Law and History provides a platform for outstanding individuals – including legal practitioners, advocates, scholars, and other experts in constitutional law and history – to spur urgently needed debate over the proper understanding of our national charter at a crucial moment.
The Polan Fellows is a pillar of the Brennan Center’s response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s turn toward originalism, a deeply flawed method of constitutional interpretation that threatens to roll back centuries of hard-won progress on reproductive rights, gun safety, racial and environmental justice, and more.
Importantly, the Fellows will develop and hone new approaches that seek to reclaim our Constitution as an enduring plan of government, rooted in the aspirations of the Framers: “to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty.”
Information about the inaugural cohort of Polan Fellows can be found here.
Note: Due to the part-time nature of this fellowship, this is a great opportunity for a full-time professional to do impactful project work. Currently matriculated students are not eligible.