Center News

February 7th 2026

The Borchard Foundation Center on Law & Aging Invites Applications for the 2026-2028 Borchard Fellowships in Law & Aging Applications due April 10, 2026 Fellowship Information The Borchar

June 11th 2019

Aisha Elmquist, a 2007-2008 Borchard Fellow, participated in the shaping of the nearly 200-page legislation that was signed in May 2019 into law in Minnesota transforming the assisted living system in

June 10th 2019

Elizabeth Zirker, a 2005-2006 Borchard Fellow, is co-teaching a course on Disability Rights at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. Her course is described here and her faculty profi

June 10th 2019

The 2019 National Aging & Law Conference will be held on October 31 and November 1 in Arlington, Virginia. The Borchard Center on Law & Aging is again this year a sponsor of the conference which is a

February 15th 2019

Three fellowships in law and aging are available for 2019-2020. The online application is available between March 15, 2019 and April 15, 2019. Interested applicants should submit the required online a

February 15th 2019

The Albert and Elaine Borchard Foundation Board of Directors are pleased to announce the recipients of the Center on Law and Aging's 2019 Academic Research Grants. They are: Patrick Button and Mashf

February 14th 2019

A new website that addresses senior housing crisis issues is now available at this link: Senior Housing Crisis. The site is the work of Julie Gilgoff, a 2017-18 Borchard Fellow, who worked on alternat

February 7th 2019

The National Aging and Law Conference (NALC) is now accepting proposals for the 2019 conference, to be held October 31st–November 1st in Arlington, Virginia. NALC is the only national conference on

July 25th 2018

Rebecca Vallas, a 2011-12 Borchard Fellow, who now serves as the vice president of the poverty to prosperity program at the Center for American Progress, was quoted in a recent New York Times article.

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