Financial Aid: Scholarships and Grants

Leadership Scholarships: Serious Support for Serious Leaders

This year The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law will award more than 75 full or partial, three-year scholarships to incoming high achieving J.D. candidates who demonstrate strong leadership potential.

Moritz Law is creating a community of leaders who want to maximize their legal education and leadership potential through specialized coursework, unique experiences, and contact with distinguished practitioners.

Leadership Scholars will have the opportunity to work with an advisor to develop an individualized leadership plan based on their distinctive strengths and goals.

Leadership Scholarships: Partnering Your Potential with Moritz Resources

Building on the existing strengths of the Moritz College of Law, Leadership Scholars may choose from a range of opportunities to create a customized leadership portfolio.

• Learn leadership styles and strategies in the "Lawyers as Leaders" course
• Develop management skills through selecting leadership training programs from among 110 graduate and professional fields of study at The Ohio State University
• Cultivate consensus building skills through Moritz Law's nationally-ranked alternative dispute resolution courses, clinics, competitions, and certificate program
• Earn academic credit while working with lawyers and policy makers at the highest levels of government in the Moritz Law Washington D.C. Summer Program
• Study for a semester or summer at Oxford University in a Moritz international program rich with academic and cultural experiences that provide insight into international and comparative law, conflicts, and the challenges of leadership in a global community.
• Gain insight into judicial decision making as a student judicial extern or a post-graduate judicial clerk. Students will be guided every step of the way by a faculty, half of whom have served as federal judicial clerks, including six with the U.S. Supreme Court.
• Participate in the deliberative and strategic processes of state government and work with elected and appointed officials through the Moritz Law Legislation Clinic
• Learn by example from attorneys whose careers reflect the highest ideals of the profession in the Mentoring and More @ Moritz Program

The confluence of Leadership Scholars' potential and Moritz Law resources is the ideal environment for serious leaders. Tomorrow's leaders are invited to realize their full potential at the Moritz College of Law. No application is required. For consideration, applicants are encouraged to submit an essay that speaks of their leadership abilities.