Junior Scholars Awards and Grants Program
Funding Amount
$1,000 - $7,500
Deadline
Rolling / Open
Grant Type
Foundation
Deadline history & next window
- Cycle
- Rolling — applications accepted year-round
- Tracked since
- April 2026
From the program guidelines: “Awards and grants are considered on a rolling basis”
Can we apply?
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Eligible organizations
- Applicant Type: All pre-tenure academics including post-docs, fellows, and individuals in non-tenure track academic research appointments
- Nomination Required: Yes - Consideration requires nomination by a current ICLE academic affiliate or scholar
Overview
ICLE's 2023 Awards and Grants Program for Junior Scholars seeks to recognize junior scholars doing important research using economic methods applied to contemporary and emerging law and public-policy issues. Awards and grants are considered on a rolling basis.
Eligibility
- Applicant Type: All pre-tenure academics including post-docs, fellows, and individuals in non-tenure track academic research appointments
- Nomination Required: Yes - Consideration requires nomination by a current ICLE academic affiliate or scholar
Award Types
Research Awards:
- Amount: $1,000 honorarium
- Purpose: Recognize publishable papers (including those substantially complete but not yet submitted for publication) completed primarily in the past 12 months
Research Grants:
- Amount: Generally $7,500 (larger awards may be made in rare instances to support specific research costs)
- Purpose: Support new or recently undertaken projects with relevance to current or emerging policy topics
- Distribution: May be awarded to individual researchers as honoraria or, at their discretion, to their institutions
Research Focus Areas
- All topics considered
- Particularly interested in:
- Conglomerate and ecosystem business models
- Relationship between labor markets and competition policy
- Empirical investigations of the effects of vertical integration
- Assessments of the effectiveness of industrial policy and regulatory efforts to structure markets
Contact
- Email: [email protected]
How to Apply
Application Process
Submission Method: Email
Required Materials:
- Submissions and inquiries should be sent to [email protected]
Process:
- Awards and grants are considered on a rolling basis
- Nomination by a current ICLE academic affiliate or scholar is required
- For research awards: Submit publishable papers (or substantially complete papers not yet submitted) completed primarily in the past 12 months
- For research grants: Describe new or recently undertaken projects with relevance to current or emerging policy topics
What International Policy Network US Inc actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990, 2024
- Grants in 2024
- 7
- Total given
- $128K
- Median grant
- $20K
- Range
- $10K–$28K
- By dollars: North Carolina 22%, Georgia 20%, Florida 20%. Top recipient cities: Chapel Hill, NC; Atlanta, GA; Tallahassee, FL.
- 0% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.
Example grants
UNC-Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC
Research
$28K
Georgia Public Policy Foundation · Atlanta, GA
Research
$25K
The James Madison Institute · Tallahassee, FL
Research
$25K
The Regents of the University of CA Irvine · Irvine, CA
Research
$20K
University of Mississippi · University, MS
Research
$10K
Focus Areas & Funding Uses
Fields of Work
- Science research
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