Under the auspices of Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, the Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law is pleased to support Berkeley Law’s participation at the 2026 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 2026 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. Our Berkeley Law Faculty representative will be Professor Saira Mohamed. The Spring 2026 Cutler Fellows program happens Thursday, Feb. 5 (pm) through Saturday, Feb. 7 (mid-afternoon) on the theme, Disruption and Renewal: Charting the Future of the International Rule of Law, Democracy, and Pluralism. The annual Lloyd N. Cutler Lecture on the evening of Friday, Feb. 6 will be held at the U.S. Supreme Court.
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, 2025:
- Cover letter explaining your background and interest in the Cutler Program
- Unofficial 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: 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 2025 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:
- Samuel Goldman Reiss; paper theme: War Authorization as Unconstitutional Delegation
- Joanna Ong; paper theme: Human Rights and Living Landscapes
- Josefina Letelier Larraín; paper theme: Digital Gender-Based Violence (“DGBV”) as a Human Rights Issue
- Simone Browne; paper theme: Beyond Firewalls: Realizing an International Human Right to the Internet through Net Neutrality and Anonymizer Access
