Reprieve Fellowships

Applications accepted on a rolling basis. Reprieve is an international human rights organization based in London that works with partner organizations in the USA and around the world. Founded in 1999 by British human rights lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, we provide free legal and investigative support to some of the world’s most vulnerable people: those who face the death penalty and those who are the victims of extreme human rights abuses committed by states in the context of the so-called War on Terror.

We pursue strategic initiatives to end extreme human rights abuses by making it legally, financially and practically difficult for governments to carry out these abuses, through a combination of investigation, litigation, and press and public scrutiny. We work closely with our Fellows and partner organizations around the world.  Reprieve has 37 staff at its headquarters in London, and engages fellows in Pakistan, Indonesia, Tanzania and Malawi. Reprieve’s partner organization, Reprieve US, also engages four Fellows in the USA.

Reprieve seeks applicants for funded fellowship positions at our partner organization, Reprieve US in Washington DC and New York or our headquarters in London.  Reprieve will also consider applications for funded fellowships based in other locations that are relevant to the fellowship opportunity. As Reprieve is not able to provide direct funding, we ask applicants to seek sponsorship from Equal Justice Works, law school-funds, corporate foundations and other public interest fellowships to begin in 2020 and 2021. Reprieve and its partner organizations are also able to host funded secondees from organizations that wish to support our mission.

• Public Interest — Postgraduate
• Public Interest
• 3L Students
• Postgraduate
• Recent Grad