Fellowships

Carrying the Legacy Forward
The WSLP Fellowship Program seeks to honor the legacy of Professor Stuntz by preserving and expanding the impact of his extraordinary legal scholarship. The Fellowship Program provides funding, mentorship, and access to resources to empower researchers dedicated to carrying forward Professor Stuntz’ vision and values.

We invite applications from both Harvard as well as non-resident faculty and researchers working on innovative and impactful projects. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. The application form can be accessed here. Should you have any questions about the Fellowship Program, please email us at wslp@law.harvard.edu.
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“Bill was extraordinary; his wisdom and compassion touched our lives in so many ways, large and small. His gifts to society through his scholarship and teaching on criminal law and justice changed and improved academic inquiry and policies on the ground. His scholarship and teaching of Christian legal theory and of confronting life’s burdens inspire people in our community and well beyond it. He imbued his work and his life with a vision of mercy and compassion. The Harvard Law School, the larger community of scholars, and the communities connected through Bill’s writings are better, wiser, kinder because of Bill.”
– Professor Martha Minow
“Among his many gifts to us was the grace with which he lived his life. In knowing Bill, we couldn’t help but be reminded to live life as our better selves. Bill once wrote, ‘We understand that the world is not what it should be, and that our own capacities to understand it are severely limited.’ He described and lived his life in recognition of the need for humility and also for judgment and work to repair what we find around us.”
— Professor Martha Minow
“One of the things that’s striking about Bill was that he was in many ways a bundle ofcontradictions. . . He was really successful, and yet extraordinarily humble. He was more conservative than many on the faculty, and also more radical in his views. His contradictions didn’t cancel each other out; they added up to make him really what people mean when they say ‘a true original.’ He’s someone who, I think, is truly irreplaceable. There are a lot of wonderful people, but there really isn’t anyone like him.’”
— Professor Carol Steiker

Professor William J. Stuntz Legacy Project

Continuing the Legacy of Justice and Faith

Join us in our mission to promote the work of Professor William J. Stuntz, and to continue his legacy of impactful justice informed and inspired by the Christian faith.

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