Stein Scholars Program

The Public Interest Resource Center with the Stein Center, oversees the student driven Stein Scholars Program, an academic and service program in which selected students participate through all three years of law school, and throughout their career.

Deliberately chosen from diverse backgrounds, Stein Scholars community reflects the broad spectrum of culture, education, and experience that is the United States today. This diversity is one of the strengths of the program, enabling students to learn from each other, and to appreciate differing views, as they pursue common goals.

By supporting the students’ interest in public service through these specialized academic requirements, summer externships, interaction with practitioners and academics, and the opportunities to engage in community service, the Stein Scholars Program encourages students to maintain their commitment to, and prepares them for, the practice of law in service to the public.

Stein Scholars News

Public Interest Resource Center Holds 32nd Annual Public Interest Student Awards Ceremony

Public Interest Resource Center Holds 32nd Annual Public Interest Student Awards Ceremony

On April 17, Fordham Law’s Public Interest Resource Center (PIRC) recognized nearly 300 students at its 32nd Annual Public Interest Awards Ceremony, celebrating their contributions to public interest work. Dean …

Meet the Two Newest Members of the Stein Scholars Program

Meet the Two Newest Members of the Stein Scholars Program

This spring, Fordham Law School welcomed Grey Berkowitz ’25 and Taylor Young-Wells ’25 into the Stein Scholars Program in Public Interest Law and Ethics. The program is designed to cultivate …

Meet The 17 Newest Members of the Stein Scholars Program in Public Interest Law and Ethics

Meet The 17 Newest Members of the Stein Scholars Program in Public Interest Law and Ethics

This fall, Fordham Law School welcomed 17 students into the Stein Scholars Program in Public Interest Law and Ethics. The program is aimed at fostering the next generation of public …

Meet Five Members of Fordham Law’s Newest J.D. Class 

Meet Five Members of Fordham Law’s Newest J.D. Class 

As another fall semester begins, Fordham Law is welcoming a new class of 428 first-year law students to campus. We asked a few students from this year’s incoming class why …

Shivani Parikh ’24 Selected to Participate in Inaugural Summer Academy on Law, Organizing, and Power Building

Shivani Parikh ’24 Selected to Participate in Inaugural Summer Academy on Law, Organizing, and Power Building

Stein Scholar Shivani Parikh ’24 was selected to participate in the first ever Summer Academy on Law, Organizing, and Power Building, hosted by The Action Lab (TAL), the Law and …

Meet the Newest Members of the Stein Scholars Program

Meet the Newest Members of the Stein Scholars Program

Fordham Law School’s Stein Scholars Program in Public Interest Law and Ethics is designed to cultivate the next generation of public interest lawyers through academic and specialized discussion series, mentorships, …

Public Interest Resource Center Holds 31st Annual Public Interest Student Awards Ceremony

Public Interest Resource Center Holds 31st Annual Public Interest Student Awards Ceremony

On March 28, the Public Interest Resource Center (PIRC) at Fordham Law held its 31st Annual Public Interest Student Awards Ceremony, recognizing and celebrating student contribution to public interest work. …

Anthony Damelio FCRH ’08, LAW ’22 Named a Skadden Fellow

Anthony Damelio FCRH ’08, LAW ’22 Named a Skadden Fellow

Stein Scholar Anthony Damelio FCRH ’08, LAW ’22 has been awarded a Skadden Foundation Fellowship, which will begin in the fall of 2022. The program, launched by Skadden, Arps, Slate, …

Meet The 20 Newest Members of the Stein Scholars Program in Public Interest Law and Ethics

Meet The 20 Newest Members of the Stein Scholars Program in Public Interest Law and Ethics

This fall, Fordham Law School welcomed 20 students into the Stein Scholars Program in Public Interest Law and Ethics. The program is aimed at fostering the next generation of public …

Meet the Newest Members of the Stein Scholars Program

Meet the Newest Members of the Stein Scholars Program

This spring, Fordham Law School welcomes six new first-year students to the Stein Scholars Program in Public Interest Law and Ethics. The program is aimed at fostering the next generation …

Meet the Newest Members of the Stein Scholars Program in Public Interest Law & Ethics

Meet the Newest Members of the Stein Scholars Program in Public Interest Law & Ethics

This fall, Fordham Law School welcomes 17 new members to the Stein Scholars Program in Public Interest Law and Ethics. The program is aimed at fostering the next generation of …

Meet the Newest Members of the Stein Scholars Program

Meet the Newest Members of the Stein Scholars Program

Fordham Law School’s Stein Scholars program is designed to cultivate the next generation of public interest lawyers. Selected students with a demonstrated commitment to public interest participate in the academic …

Meet the Stein Scholars Class of 2022 (Day Division) and Class of 2023 (Evening Division)

Meet the Stein Scholars Class of 2022 (Day Division) and Class of 2023 (Evening Division)

Please join us in welcoming the newest members of the Stein Scholars Program in Public Interest Law & Ethics. Seventeen 1Ls have joined the program as members of the Class …

Law and the #MeToo Movement

Law and the #MeToo Movement

On April 5—just over six months after Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testified against Justice Brett Kavanaugh in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee—a group of lawyers, professors, writers, and activists …

Fordham Student Awarded NLG Haywood Burns Fellowship

Fordham Student Awarded NLG Haywood Burns Fellowship

For 1L Luna Garzón-Montano, public interest work is a natural inclination. “I feel like I have a sense of purpose when I do this kind of work,” she says. Garzón-Montano, …

Standing with Refugees

Standing with Refugees

Wars, violence, and persecution uprooted a record 68.5 million people across the world in 2017, according to the UN Refugee Agency’s annual Global Trends study. This ongoing global crisis has …

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan Receives Fordham-Stein Prize

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan Receives Fordham-Stein Prize

Ten days after the end of the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan urged attendees at the Fordham-Stein Prize Dinner last night to break the …

The Harmful Effects of Gentrification on NYC’s Low-Income Black and Latino Populations

The Harmful Effects of Gentrification on NYC’s Low-Income Black and Latino Populations

Stein Scholar Yazmine Nichols wrote an opinion piece for Blavity about the impact of gentrification in New York City on low-income minority communities. New York City has always been a …

A New Kind of Prosecution

A New Kind of Prosecution

3L Stein Scholar Dana Kai-el McBeth appeared in a recent New Yorker article for two questions she posed to Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner at a Fordham Law event. The …

Stein Scholar Wins Environmental Writing Competition

Stein Scholar Wins Environmental Writing Competition

On October 20, Fordham Law 3L and Stein Scholar Rachel Manning ’19 will receive an award for her first place finish in the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) Professor …

Stein Council

Stein Scholars annually elects Stein Council as its administrative/governing body. All Stein Scholars are eligible candidates for these leadership positions. Stein Council meets every few weeks or so depending upon need, occasionally inviting student leaders, committees, faculty, or others to attend and discuss issues. Representatives are available to discuss Stein issues at any time and if warranted, to bring your issues to Stein Scholars as a whole, or the Stein Directors, on your behalf.

Stein Scholars has Committees that help to administer and run the Program. Every Stein serves on one Committee or Event for each semester and work is accomplished at the direction of the selected Committee Chair.

Stein Scholars usually produce two to four events per semester, conceived, chosen by popular Stein vote, and produced by Steins, during the Stein time which is every Wednesday 4:30-6pm.