OtherOpenU.S. National Science Foundation

Law & Science

Per-recipient award not stated for business, individual, nonprofit, other legal entity, public agency, tribal government, unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "additional information on eligibility", closing Not stated.

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BusinessIndividualNonprofitOther Legal EntityPublic AgencyTribal GovernmentUnrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"Science and Technology and other Research and Development

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Law & Science does not state a per-recipient award amount, open to business, individual, nonprofit, other legal entity, public agency, tribal government, unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "additional information on…

Record fields
Program pool (total)
$5,500,000
Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
Award ceiling (per project)
Not confirmed
Estimated total funding for the program
Award floor
Not confirmed
Typical award
Not confirmed
Deadline
Not stated
Deadline type
unknown
Opens
Oct 15, 2020
Status
Open
Eligible entities
Business · Individual · Nonprofit · Other Legal Entity · Public Agency · Tribal Government · Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"
Geography
Not stated
Matching funds
No
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Application effort
Not confirmed
Currency
USD

How much money is available?

Two different figures govern a programme and they are not interchangeable. The programme pool is what the funder has allocated across every award it will make this cycle. The award ceiling is the most one applicant can be granted.

Program pool (total)Across all awards this cycle
$5,500,000
Award ceiling (per project)The most one applicant can receive
Not stated

Source wording: “Estimated total funding for the program”

Who can apply?

entity
industry
use

Research addressing crime, violence, policing, cyberspace, economic issues, environmental science, evidentiary issues, forensic science, governance and courts, human rights, information technology, legal and ethical issues related to science, legal decision making, legal mobilization, litigation, punishment and corrections, regulation and facilitation of biotechnology and emerging technologies, and use of science in legal processes, Research studies of law and legal systems, Studies of science and technology applied in legal contexts

Source field: use of funds
size limit

Not stated

Source field: applicant size limit
clause text

Applicants must be institutions or organizations subject to NSF eligibility requirements

We store the structured fields above. Clause-by-clause text from the guidelines is not connected for this record.

When does it close?

Not statedunknown deadline

No deadline information provided on page

What can the money be used for?

Research studies of law and legal systemsStudies of science and technology applied in legal contextsResearch addressing crime, violence, policing, cyberspace, economic issues, environmental science, evidentiary issues, forensic science, governance and courts, human rights, information technology, legal and ethical issues related to science, legal decision making, legal mobilization, litigation, punishment and corrections, regulation and facilitation of biotechnology and emerging technologies, and use of science in legal processes

These categories come from the source's own classification. A line-item cost table, where the programme publishes one, lives in the guidelines and is not parsed for this record.

How hard is the application?

Application effort
Not confirmed
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Matching funds
No
Cost sharing is false according to labeled fields

Who has received this funding?

No award records yet

We hold no prior awards for this programme. That is a gap in what we have connected, not a finding that the programme has never funded anyone — check the official page, which may list past recipients.

Common questions

Every answer below is a stored field from this record. Questions the source did not answer are not asked.

How much funding is available in total?
$5,500,000 across the whole programme. This is the total the funder has allocated, not an amount any single applicant can receive.
Who is eligible to apply?
Business, Individual, Nonprofit, Other Legal Entity, Public Agency, Tribal Government, Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility".
What can the funding be used for?
Research studies of law and legal systems, Studies of science and technology applied in legal contexts, Research addressing crime, violence, policing, cyberspace, economic issues, environmental science, evidentiary issues, forensic science, governance and courts, human rights, information technology, legal and ethical issues related to science, legal decision making, legal mobilization, litigation, punishment and corrections, regulation and facilitation of biotechnology and emerging technologies, and use of science in legal processes, as classified by the source.
Is matching funding required?
No. The source states that no matching funds are required. Cost sharing is false according to labeled fields
Provenance
Source pagegrants.gov
Retrieved2026-09-01
MethodAutomated check
First seen2026-09-01

The official page governs. If the source and this record disagree, the source is correct — programmes change their terms between our checks, so confirm every figure above before you apply.