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The Constitutional Court Trust is delighted to announce our Pius Langa Memorial fellow for the 2023 - 2024 academic year, Alfred Moraka, who will be going to study towards an LLM at University College London in the UK next year.

The Constitutional Court Trust is delighted to announce our Franklin Thomas fellow for the 2023 - 2024 academic year, Lehlohonolo January, who will be going to study towards an LLM in the USA next year.

The four current CCT fellows have begun their LLM studies at Michigan Law, University College Law, Notre Dame and Georgetown

The Constitutional Court Trust (CCT) is delighted to announce its second call for applications for the Pius Langa Memorial Fellowship, which affords one early career lawyer per year who has either clerked at the Constitutional Court or worked in a public interest law NGO in South Africa the opportunity to study towards a LLM at University College London (UCL) in the United Kingdom, one of the top ranked universities in the world.

The Franklin Thomas Fellowship for law clerks was established in honour of Franklin Thomas, a former President of the Ford Foundation.

The purpose of the Franklin Thomas fellowship is to provide an opportunity for a South African from a historically disadvantaged background who has clerked of the Constitutional Court of South Africa to study at an American university towards a one-year graduate programme leading to a Masters of Law (LLM) degree.

The Constitutional Court Trust has recently awarded fellowships for the 2025 - 2026 academic year.

A new fellowship, funded by the University of Notre Dame - Indiana, United States, is currently being established to provide one early career lawyer who has clerked at the Constitutional Court in South Africa to study towards an LLM at the University of Notre Dame (ND) Indiana, in the United States. Lihle Bululu has been nominated to be a fellow in 2025 - 2026 for this new fellowship arrangement between ND Law and the Constitutional Court Trust.

The Constitutional Court Trust is delighted to announce our fellows for the 2022 - 2023 academic year, Natasha Dusabe, Mila Harding and Tshepo Skosana, who will all be going to study towards LLMs abroad next year.

The Constitutional Court Trust (CCT) is delighted to announce the establishment of a new fellowship programme to benefit young lawyers in South Africa committed to forwarding constitutional and human rights law in South Africa and / or Africa. This new fellowship will afford one early career lawyer per year the opportunity to study towards a LLM at University College London (UCL) in the United Kingdom, one of the top ranked universities in the world.

The Franklin Thomas Fellowship for law clerks was established in honour of Franklin Thomas, a former President of the Ford Foundation. 

The purpose of the Franklin Thomas fellowship is to provide an opportunity for a South African from a historically disadvantaged background who has clerked of the Constitutional Court of South Africa to study at an American university towards a one-year graduate programme leading to a Masters of Law (LLM) degree.

Nontobeko Ngubane, the recipient of the Franklin Thomas Fellowship for 2020 - 2021, is finally able to undertake her LLM studies at the University of Notre Dame’s Law School this month, after the global pandemic forced her to defer her studies in 2020.