Under the auspices of Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and with funding from the Career Development Office, the Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law is pleased to support Berkeley Law’s participation at the Salzburg Lloyd N. Cutler Fellows Program in International Law. The Salzburg Cutler Fellows Program brings together 56 of the nation’s top law students with leading academics, judges, and practitioners in the fields of private and public international law. The program examines the most critical issues shaping today’s international law agenda and creates a network of lawyers interested in careers in international practice and public service.
At the heart of the program is the preparation by each Fellow of a paper, to be submitted in a five-to-eight-page executive-summary form in January for review by the other participants and a group of outstanding law professors, judges and practitioners. Up to four Berkeley Law students participate each year in the program taking place each February. The Spring 2027 Cutler Fellows program dates and theme have not yet been announced.
Cost: Berkeley Law’s Career Development Office covers the cost of transportation and up to two nights of accommodation in Washington, DC. Meals will be provided by the Salzburg Global Seminar.
Eligibility: The program is open to 2Ls and 3Ls. According to the Program’s specifications, eligibility can also be extended on a highly exceptional basis to LLM students and “in no case may a school send more than one LLM.” Students with expertise or experience in international law are encouraged to apply. A maximum of four students will be accepted.
Application process: Please submit the following four documents combined in one PDF to Toni Mendicino via email <tmendicino@law.berkeley.edu> by Friday, October 31, 2026:
- Cover letter explaining your background and interest in the Cutler Program
- Unofficial or official Berkeley Law transcript
- Résumé or CV
- One-page abstract describing the research topic/paper you would present during the breakout sessions of the Cutler Seminar. If you are writing the paper under the supervision of a Berkeley Law faculty member, please identify that person in the abstract.
- Abstracts should outline an issue or question in international law that will be developed into a research paper, journal note, or other publication.
- Abstracts should generally fit in one of these major areas: i) humanitarian law, human rights, and use of force; ii) international economic, investment, and monetary law; iii) international trade, anti-corruption, and antitrust; iv) international institutions and international relations; and v) rule of law and comparative constitutionalism.
- Students are encouraged to submit abstracts based on articles or papers in development for other purposes, such as a seminar, independent study, or law journal.
Additional Information (will be updated as information becomes available): Cutler Fellows 2025-2026 program brochure. Please visit the Cutler Fellows website and the Salzburg Global Seminar website, or contact Miller administrator Ms. Toni Mendicino (tmendicino@law.berkeley.edu), for further details.
The 2026 Cutler Fellows representing Berkeley Law and Professor Saira Mohamed, Berkeley Law’s Faculty representative, pictured below (l-r) at the program in DC; they presented papers as follows:
- Anchita Dasgupta, “Piercing Consent: A Case for Justiciability of Jus Cogens Norms at the ICJ”
- Bex Grayzel-Ward, “Bordering Identity: Reimagining Gender Markers on Passports through International Human Rights Law”
- Jaden Nguyen, “The Application of Article II(c) of the Genocide Convention to Destruction of Habitat in Indigenous Lands”
- Layla Yousef, “The New Armed Attack”
