SPONSORED: The Clark Foundation for Legal Education - applications for grant/scholarship 2025

The Clark Foundation for Legal Education, applications now open for grants/scholarships in 2025.

The Clark Foundation for Legal Education (SC018520) is a charitable trust established (1) to promote and advance the legal, professional or business education or training of (a) persons studying or teaching law at universities or other institutions of higher education based in Scotland or anywhere else in the world; and (b) other persons practising law or involved in the administration of law in Scotland or elsewhere in the United Kingdom; and (2) to promote good citizenship and civic responsibility and for that purpose to advance the active understanding of the law by the general public.

In furtherance of the above, the Foundation’s trustees invite applications for Grants and Scholarships from postgraduate and undergraduate students to assist them with courses of study in Scots law, or comparative legal systems, or the law of the European Community, or foreign languages or business management or to undertake research into Scots Law and /or its relationship with other legal systems or to attend international student competitions and conferences.

The trustees will also consider applications from persons practising law in Scotland, whether as solicitors or advocates, those teaching Scots law, those arranging conferences, seminars and lectures, and those involved in research in, and the writing of legal text books or other publications or presentations on Scots law and/or its relationship with other legal systems or the institutions of the European Community.

Applications may also be made for Grants to provide facilities and equipment (including computers and other IT, hardware, software or peripheral equipment) for study and research including for the establishment and maintenance of libraries and study centres.

The grant and amount of any award, and the period for which it is to run, is within the discretion of the trustees.

Awards will be made in September 2025 and all applications, which are to be completed on a standard application form available by downloading from the Foundation website (www.clarkfoundation.org.uk) or upon request to the email address noted below, must be submitted in electronic form by no later than 31 March 2025.

Please note that the Foundation does not support students studying for LLB/Diploma in Professional Legal Practice.

Please send your completed application before the stated deadline by email to: clarkfoundation@lindsays.co.uk