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Blackstone Legal Fellowship

Blackstone Legal Fellowship
Motto"Learn. Lead. Defend."
TypeLegal internship
Established2008
AffiliationAlliance Defending Freedom
Location
Scottsdale
,
Arizona
,
USA
Websiteblackstonelegalfellowship.org

The Blackstone Legal Fellowship is an American legal training and summer internship program for Christian law students, developed and facilitated by the Evangelical Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF). About 3,000 law students have participated in the program.[1] Its main campus is in Scottsdale, Arizona. Among its faculty are Missouri U.S. Senator Josh Hawley and U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett. ADF co-founder and president Alan Sears said that the program's goal was to put Christian lawyers into "positions of influence, thereby impacting the legal culture and keeping the door open for the Gospel."[2] The program has attracted criticism, given the ADF's designation by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group.[3][4]

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  3. ^ Resnick, Sophia (August 9, 2018). "Sessions Defends Controversial Organization Against Hate Group Designation". Rewire News Group. Retrieved March 7, 2023.
  4. ^ "Alliance Defending Freedom". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved March 7, 2023.

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