The Aryeh Neier Fellowship is a full-time, two-year program with the ACLU and Human Rights Watch that offers recent law school graduates an opportunity to gain practical experience in human rights documentation, advocacy, and litigation.
The ACLU and Human Rights Watch created the fellowship in 2002 with generous funding from the Open Society Foundations to honor the legacy of Aryeh Neier. As executive director of the ACLU and then of Human Rights Watch, Aryeh Neier helped develop both organizations into powerful forces for justice and human rights.
The fellow works with both organizations consecutively on joint research in a particular area highlighting patterns of abuses and stories of those most impacted by human rights of violations in the United States. These research products offer comprehensive recommendations for legal and policy reforms. During the second year of the fellowship, the fellow conducts advocacy and engages in impact litigation — related to their research — to seek legal remedies and affect broader change. Over the past two decades, fellows have published reports and contributed to litigation in the following areas:
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