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| Advocates Toastmasters |
Summary: The Advocates Toastmasters’ purpose was to improve their members’ public speaking abilities. The eighteen students would meet each week to practice their oratorical skills and receive criticism from fellow members. |
| American Constitution Society for Law & Policy |
Summary: The American Constitution Society for Law & Policy - University of Michigan Chapter (ACS) is a non-partisan group of Law School community members dedicated to promoting an understanding of the United States Constitution that takes into account the principles of Compassion, Justice and Respect for human dignity. |
| Ann Arbor Surf-Board-Riding and Mountain-Climbing Society |
Summary: The Ann Arbor Surf-Board-Riding and Mountain-Climbing Society, or Psurfs, was an organization of law students who enjoy singing. They performed at various social events around campus. The P prefixing their name stood for "Pseudo." |
| Asia Law Society |
Summary: Since its founding in 2005 as the UM China Law Society, the Asia Law Society has kept as its core mission the exchange of legal knowledge across vast boundaries, and a bridging of academic and legal knowledge to gain a unique perspective on the region. |
| Asian American Law Students Association (AALSA) |
Summary: The Asian American Law Students Association (AALSA) was formed in 1986 to promote Asian American legal issues and Asian American presence in the Law School and community. It also assisted in the recruitment of Asian American students and served as a social and professional network. |
| Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (APALSA) |
Summary: The Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (APALSA) serves as an academic, social and political resource for students in the Law School. In recent years, APALSA has made itself increasingly visible to the administration and has strengthened its voice in efforts to redefine the role of Asian Americans both in the Law School and in the law. |
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| Barristers Society |
Summary: The Barristers Society was founded in 1904 as a literary society and evolved into an upperclassmen honorary society. The Barristers were responsible for organizing two annual Law School dances, the Wigge and Robe and the Crease Ball; publishing the annual Raw Review; and making contributions to the Case Clubs and scholarships. |
| Black Law Students Alliance (BLSA) |
Summary: The University of Michigan's Black Law Students Alliance (BLSA) is a professional organization of Black law students committed to furthering the academic, professional, and cultural needs and goals of the Black law students at Michigan. As an affiliate of the National Black Law Students Association (NBLSA), our chapter focuses on sensitizing the legal community to the needs of the Black community, promoting the professional needs of Black law students, and assisting in the recruitment, retention, and placement of Black students. |
| Business Law Association (BLA) |
Summary: The University of Michigan Business Law Association (BLA) was organized to help graduate students pursue academic, professional, and social opportunities arising from the nexus of law and business. BLA exposes its members to interdisciplinary issues affecting both law and business, and fosters interaction between the Law and Business Schools at Michigan, as well as between students, faculty, and professionals within the fields. |
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| Case Clubs |
Summary: The Case Clubs was the largest organization at the Law School. It was designed to train students in legal argumentation. Each Club was named for a distinguished Michigan jurist and students were required to prepare and present a case to an appellate court. The top contestants in the junior year qualified for the eliminations for the Henry M. Campbell Award. On the annual Case Club Day, the final competition was held and the Campbell Award and other prizes were awarded at a banquet in the evening. The earliest record of a Case Club at the University of Michigan is that of the Cooley Club, dated 1923. |
| Catholic Law Students Association |
Summary: The Catholic Law Students Association is a social organization, reading and discussion group, and a facilitator for volunteer services in the community. It aims to help law students at Michigan reflect on what it means to be a Catholic lawyer. |
| Chapter of American Civil Liberties Union |
Summary: The University of Michigan Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is committed to protecting and raising awareness of civil rights. The organization is open to all University students and faculty and sponsors meetings, speakers, and other political activities. |
| Christian Law Students (CLS) |
Summary: Christian Legal Society is an organization that focuses on providing fellowship among believers, increasing an understanding of the relationship between faith and law and the communication of the Gospel to the world at large. Members meet weekly for fellowship, discussion, and to hear guest speakers. Social events are organized throughout the year. There are also opportunities for community service with clothing drives and assistance to crisis pregnancy centers. The group is affiliated with the Christian Legal Society, a national organization of Christian lawyers. All students, regardless of religious preference, are welcomed and encouraged to attend. |
| Codicil |
Summary: The Codicil replaced the Quad as the Law School’s annual yearbook, covering faculty, students, organizations, and special events. In 1968, the original yearbook known as the Quad became the Codicil, a name it kept from 1968 to 1982, with publication suspended between 1974-1976 and 1978-1979. In 1988, the yearbook was revived as the Quadrangle and later changed its name to Res ipsa loquitur in 1992. |
| Cook's Inn Toastmasters Club |
Summary: The Cook’s Inn Toastmasters Club was formed in 1897 to improve students’ public speaking abilities through the practice of delivering various types of speeches during their weekly dinner meetings. The Club separated from the national Toastmaster organization in 1963. |
| Criminal Law Society (CLS) |
Summary: The Criminal Law Society (CLS) is dedicated to providing a forum for its members and the law school at large to explore current discourse, issues, and interests in different areas of criminal law, including careers and opportunities. Each year, the Criminal Law Society organizes prison tours, police ride-alongs, and career panels featuring local attorneys and senior law students. CLS also arranges special speaker events, on topics including capital punishment, white collar crime, exoneration of the erroneously convicted, and police discretionary power. Each year, the Society selects and coaches a team to compete in the Herbert J. Wechsler National Criminal Moot Court Competition, in Buffalo, NY. |
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| Delta Theta Phi |
Summary: Delta Theta Phi was founded in 1913 through the union of three existing legal fraternities, including the Christiancy Senate. The organization hosted numerous social activities at its fraternity house on Hill Street. |
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| Entertainment Media and Arts Law Students Association (EMALSA) |
Summary: The mission of the Entertainment Media and Arts Law Students Association (EMALSA) is to provide a forum for students to explore opportunities in entertainment law, to cultivate important connections with practitioners and industry leaders, and to investigate legal developments relating to music, theater, film, television, cable, radio, media, publishing, sports, and visual arts. |
| Environmental Law Society (ELS) |
Summary: The University of Michigan Environmental Law Society (ELS) serves foremost as a forum for students energized by environmental issues and concerned with how the law may or may not adequately address those issues. ELS also strives to provide first hand opportunities for those students who see environmental law in their professional future. |
| Equity Society |
Summary: The Equity Society was a secret society made up of twelve members. It claimed to be part of a larger organization which originated in 13th century England and whose members were part of the legal academic milieu. |
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| Family Law Project |
Summary: The Family Law Project was founded in 1979 as a student-run legal aid clinic for victims of domestic abuse. Second- and third-year law student volunteers act as attorneys for their clients and are supervised by an attorney. |
| Federalist Society |
Summary: The University of Michigan Federalist Society is a non-profit membership organization dedicated to bringing conservative and libertarian ideas into legal education. We sponsor debates, speeches and symposia to advance our principles that the state exists to preserve freedom, that the separation of governmental powers is central to our Constitution and that it is emphatically the province and duty of the judiciary to say what the law is, not what it should be. The Michigan chapter of the Federalist Society was established in 1986. |
| Food Stamp Advocacy Project |
Summary: The Food Stamp Advocacy Project is a student-run law school organization composed entirely of dedicated law students who seek to give back to the community while in law school. Members of the Food Stamps Advocacy Program visit local transitional housing and community centers to assist clients in completing applications for food stamps and other public benefits. |
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| Headnotes |
Summary: The Headnotes are the University of Michigan Law School's a cappella singing group. Composed of approximately 16 law students, the Headnotes perform jazz, popular, and traditional arrangements in four-part harmony. The Headnotes are the only music group in the Law School. |
| Health Law Society |
Summary: The Health Law Society was founded in 1988 to promote legal and medical issues. A multidisciplinary organization, it included students from the Law, Public Health, Medical, and Nursing Schools. |
| Henry M. Campbell Moot Court Competition |
Summary: The Henry M. Campbell Moot Court Competition has been an annual event at the Law School for more than eighty years. Winning it is one of the highest honors a Michigan law student can achieve. The Campbell Competition, open to all interested second- and third-year students, LL.M., visiting and dual degree students, is a test of the contestants' skills in the art of appellate advocacy, both oral and written. The semi-final round is held early in the winter term, with two teams advancing to the final argument held in early April. The Henry M. Campbell Memorial Prize is divided among the finalists. |
| Hispanic Law Students Association |
Summary: Formerly known as "La Raza", the Hispanic Law Students Association aimed to "promote and enhance the progress of Latino law students." It helped recruit Latino students to the Law School and offered academic and professional help to its members. |
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| Immigration Law Project |
Summary: The Immigration Law Project was a student-run organization that helped local residents deal with immigration issues. |
| Intellectual Property Students Association |
Summary: The Intellectual Property Students Association was founded in 1988. The main goals of the organization are to create a sense of community among students already interested in intellectual property, and to provide exposure to the IP areas of law for those students who may be unaware of its possibilities. |
| International Law Society |
Summary: The International Law Society was formed in 1965 to promote activities related to international and comparative law. The Society organizes speaking programs with experts from around the world and sponsors a team to participate in the Jessup International Moot Court Competition. |
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| J. Reuben Clark Law Society |
Summary: The J. Reuben Clark Law Society is an international organization devoted to helping the lawyer and law student recognize the strength that can be brought to the law by the lawyer's personal religious convictions. |
| Jewish Law Students Union |
Summary: The Jewish Law Students Union sponsored events to promote communication and understanding among the Jewish legal community and the greater legal community. |
| Journal of Law Reform (JLR) |
Summary: Founded in 1968, the Journal of Law Reform publishes four issues each year devoted to scholarship that will, in the words of Francis A. Allen, one of the Journal's founding members, "promote the improvement of law and its administration in all areas in which needs are disclosed and in which useful proposals can be advanced." The Journal of Law Reform has a strong commitment to providing law students with journal experience, publishing student notes promoting reform, and hosting symposia on a wide range of current, reform-related issues. |
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| La Raza |
Summary: La Raza, which is now known as the Hispanic Law Students Association, aimed to promote and enhance the progress of Latino law students. It helped recruit Latino students to the Law School and offered academic and professional help to its members. |
| Latino Law Students Association (LLSA) |
Summary: The Latino Law Students Association (LLSA) seeks to remedy the under-representation of Latinos in all segments of the legal community. We strive to increase the number of Latino students enrolled in the Law School here at Michigan, and also in the legal community in general. In working toward this objective, LLSA works closely with the Admissions Office on recruitment and admissions matters. Once Latino students enroll, LLSA provides an academic and social support network as well as a means of keeping abreast of Latino issues in the law. |
| Law School Arts Committee |
Summary: The Law School Arts Committee was established in 1989 for the advancement of the arts. Its goal was to bring together students, faculty, and staff with common artistic interest and promote their performances, exhibitions, or other events. |
| Law School Democrats |
Summary: The Law School Democrats seek to promote and defend equal opportunity for justice, voting rights, political access, and personal freedom; fight for universal access to health care, education, and decent employment; promote the interests of the many over the profit of the few; preserve the environment for the generations to come; and get involved in the community, while strengthening relationships between Michigan Law Students and the Democratic Party. |
| Law School Families Association |
Summary: The Law School Families Association was a support group for students with families. |
| Law School Senate |
Summary: The Law School Senate is the representative body of the law students and promotes various activities to supplement the curriculum. It provides funding for interest groups at the Law School and acts as the liaison between the student body and the administration. |
| Law Student Division of American Bar Association |
Summary: The Law Student Division of the American Bar Association was a professional organization that provided students with a voice in the future of their profession. It also sponsored competitions for students to practice their legal skills. |
| Law Wives Association |
Summary: The Law Wives Association offered several special interest groups for law wives to share and develop their cooking, creative, card-playing, and sewing skills. The organization also welcomed new members to Ann Arbor, raised funds for charity, and organized social events. |
| Lawyers Club Board of Directors |
Summary: The Lawyers Club Board of Directors was the governing body Lawyers Club. It supervised the publication of the weekly newspaper, Res Gestae, and the annual yearbook, The Quad; sponsored social events; coordinated activities of all the clubs; and oversaw the intramural sports program. |
| Legal Advocates for Children and Youth (LACY) |
Summary: The goals of Legal Advocates for Children and Youth (LACY) are to provide a community for law students interested in legal work with young people and to advocate for better programming, funding, and faculty for child- and youth-related law at the law school. |
| Legal Aid Society |
Summary: The Legal Aid Society was founded in the spring of 1957 to provide legal assistance to destitute people, assist local Ann Arbor attorneys, and allow students to gain practical experience. The Society operated a Clinic in which students who had completed at least twenty-eight credit hours could represent indigents. |
| Lesbian and Gay Law Students |
Summary: Lesbian and Gay Law Students promoted lesbian and gay liberation and respect for lesbian and gay people. It organized social events and was involved in political activities, such as encouraging the Law School and University to include sexual orientation in their non-discrimination policies. |
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| Michigan chapter of Federalist Society |
Summary: The University of Michigan Federalist Society is a non-profit membership organization dedicated to bringing conservative and libertarian ideas into legal education. We sponsor debates, speeches and symposia to advance our principles that the state exists to preserve freedom, that the separation of governmental powers is central to our Constitution and that it is emphatically the province and duty of the judiciary to say what the law is, not what it should be. |
| Michigan Election Law Project (MELP) |
Summary: The Michigan Election Law Project (MELP) creates nonpartisan opportunities for Michigan law students to explore the field of election, campaign and voting rights law in order to help the democratic process achieve its full potential. Founded in 2004, the organization brings together law students, professors, alumni, practitioners, and others in legal research, debate and community action designed to protect and expand civic and political participation, especially by members of historically disfranchised communities. |
| Michigan Journal of Gender & Law |
Summary: The central mission of the Michigan Journal of Gender & Law is to create a feminist legal publication that will help expand and develop legal discourse beyond traditional boundaries. The Journal, which was founded in 1992, is dedicated to providing a forum for exploring how gender issues (and related issues of race, class, sexual orientation, and culture) impact law and society. The Journal seeks to compare, contrast, and combine theoretical and practical perspectives on gender issues in order to provide a bridge between theory and practice. |
| Michigan Journal of Race & Law (MJR&L) |
Summary: The Michigan Journal of Race & Law (MJR&L) serves as a forum for scholars of all races to develop and expand theoretical, critical, and socially relevant approaches to intersections between race and property, contract, constitutional, criminal and other areas of the law. The Journal welcomes both traditional and non-traditional submissions from a broad range of perspectives and backgrounds. |
| Michigan Law Review |
Summary: The Michigan Law Review has been published since 1902 for the dual purposes of training law students in writing and research, and serving the profession and the public by the discussion of important legal problems. |
| Michigan Law Students Civil Rights Research Council |
Summary: The Michigan Law Students Civil Rights Research Council was formed in 1964 to provide research assistance to attorneys engaged in civil rights and racial discrimination cases. Its goals included working for the elimination of racial discrimination, assisting attorneys, and providing students an opportunity to research actual civil rights problems. |
| Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review |
Summary: Founded in 1994, Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review was one of the first law journals to use interactive media to promote informed discourse about the interrelated legal, social, business, and public policy issues raised by emerging technologies. As one of the original online law journals in the world, MTTLR is a ground-breaking publication. |
| Michigan Yearbook of International Legal Studies |
Summary: The Michigan Yearbook of International Legal Studies was an annual publication devoted to international and comparative law. During the 1988-1989 academic year, the Yearbook became a quarterly journal, the Michigan Journal of International Law, publishing articles by scholars and practitioners and research “notes” by students in international, comparative, and foreign law. |
| Minority Affairs Program |
Summary: The Minority Affairs Program provided an informal peer support system to first year minority students by organizing social activities, counseling, and information sessions. |
| Moot Court Team |
Summary: The Moot Court Team was composed of the top seniors from the Campbell Competition. It competed in the National Moot Court Competition, an inter-law school appellate moot court competition sponsored by the Young Lawyers Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. |
| Muslim Law Students Association (MLSA) |
Summary: The Muslim Law Students Association (MLSA) provides fellowship for Muslim law students through monthly meetings, educational and religious events, and regular social activities. The MLSA strives to provide a forum for the discussion of issues, both legal and non-legal, pertinent to the Muslim community and relevant to the general university community. |
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| National Lawyers Guild (NLG) |
Summary: The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) is a national organization concerned with creating and sustaining social change. Each year, the NLG sponsors several events to support people who come to law school intent on using the legal system to promote social change. |
| Native American Law Students Association |
Summary: The Native American Law Students Association was formed in 1980 to recruit Native Americans, provide a meaningful socio-cultural base for Native Americans at the Law School, and advance the rights of Native Americans. |
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| Odd Lot Investment Club |
Summary: The Odd Lot Investment Club was founded to promote financial and investment activities. |
| Order of Coif |
Summary: The Order of the Coif is a national law school honor society which aims to reward excellence in legal scholarship. Each spring, the top ten percent of the September, February, and June graduating classes are elected and initiated into the society. The University of Michigan Law School joined the Order of the Coif in 1911. |
| Organization of Public Interest Students (OPIS) |
Summary: The Organization of Public Interest Students (OPIS) is an organization at the University of Michigan Law School that strives to provide a community for law students attracted to public interest work and a force to advocate for better programming, funding and faculty for public interest within the law school. OPIS (formerly the Public Interest Group and then the Public Interest and Community Service Organization) was formed by the University of Michigan Law Students in 1990 to support and encourage students who are considering pursuing a career in public interest, and to be a voice for those students within the law school. |
| Outlaws Association |
Summary: The Outlaws Association seeks to enhance and expand justice within the Law School community and beyond; provide for the common defense against racism, sexism and homophobia; promote the general welfare of queer students; and secure the blessings of liberty for current and future generations. |
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| Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity |
Summary: The Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity is a professional organization whose goal is to unite students and teachers of the law with members of the Bench and Bar. The University of Michigan Law School’s Campbell Chapter was established on March 11, 1905. |
| Phi Delta Phi International Legal Fraternity |
Summary: The Phi Delta Phi International Legal Fraternity was founded at the University of Michigan with the establishment of the Kent Inn Chapter in 1869. Phi Delta Phi was created to promote high ethical standards and academic achievements in the legal field. The Fraternity also organizes many social events for the Law School. |
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| Quad |
Summary: The Quad was the Law School’s yearbook, covering faculty, students, organizations, and special events. After a twenty year absence, from 1967 to 1987, the yearbook was revived as The Quadrangle. |
| Quadrangle |
Summary: The Quadrangle replaced the Codicil as the Law School’s annual yearbook, covering faculty, students, organizations, and special events, from 1988 to 1992. In 1968, the original yearbook known as the Quad became the Codicil, a name it kept from 1968 to 1982, with publication suspended between 1974-1976 and 1978-1979. In 1988, the yearbook was revived as the Quadrangle and later changed its name to Res ipsa loquitur in 2002. |
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| Res Gestae |
Summary: The Res Gestae was the University of Michigan’s oldest law school weekly newspaper, and was written for and by law students. |
| Res ipsa loquitur |
Summary: Res ipsa loquitur replaces the Quadrangle as the Law School’s annual yearbook, covering faculty, students, organizations, and special events, since 1992. In 1968, the original yearbook known as the Quad became the Codicil, a name it kept from 1968 to 1982, with publication suspended between 1974-1976 and 1978-1979. In 1988, the yearbook was revived as the Quadrangle and later changed its name to Res ipsa loquitur in 2002. |
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| South Asian Law Students Association (SALSA) |
Summary: The South Asian Law Students Association (SALSA) is a new student group that serves as a forum for those in the Law School who identify with, or trace their lineage to, one of the countries that comprise South Asia (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) to interact with one another. In addition to that function, SALSA welcomes and encourages any and all law students who have an interest in South Asian culture, or legal issues involving South Asia, to join. |
| Sports Law Society |
Summary: The Sports Law Society serves to foster the education of sports and the law and functions as a resource for students wishing to pursue a career in sports law. It was founded in the fall of 1988. |
| Student Animal Legal Defense Fund (SALDF) |
Summary: Student Animal Legal Defense Fund (SALDF) is the University of Michigan Law School’s student chapter of the Animal Legal Defense Fund, a national organization dedicated to animal protection through the legal system. SALDF aims to increase awareness of animal law issues in the UMLS community. |
| Student Bar Association |
Summary: The Student Bar Association was founded in 1948 to promote scholarship, to further interest in the practice of law, to serve as a liaison between students and faculty, and to initiate or supervise student activities, both social and professional. It was responsible for the publication of the Law School’s newspaper and yearbook. Each law student is a member of the Student Bar Association. |
| Student Funded Fellowships (SFF) |
Summary: Student Funded Fellowships (SFF) is a student organization that raises money to provide grants to University of Michigan Law School students who take unpaid or low-paying public-interest summer internships. The organization was founded in 1978. |
| Student Legal Services |
Summary: Student Legal Services was set up to allow law students to engage in various aspects of law practice. |
| Student Network for Asylum and Refugee Law (SNARL) |
Summary: The University of Michigan Law School Student Network for Asylum and Refugee Law (SNARL) is a student-led organization committed to refugee protection and the advancement of refugee rights. Through speakers, movies, interactive simulations, volunteer work, and lobbying efforts, SNARL seeks to help UMLS students become effective refugee advocates and to promote broader awareness of the social, economic, and legal challenges facing refugees. |
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| Tau Epsilon Rho Chapter of University of Michigan |
Summary: The Tau Epsilon Rho Chapter of the University of Michigan was founded in 1926. The Chapter sponsored luncheon meetings and other social events, and participated in intramural sports events. |
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| Unemployment Benefits Clinic |
Summary: The Unemployment Benefits Clinic provides local unemployed with legal assistance from Law School students. |
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| Volunteer Student Tutoring Association |
Summary: The Volunteer Student Tutoring Association was formed in April 1990 to provide tutors and literacy volunteers free of charge to the Ann Arbor community. |
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| Wolverine Street Law |
Summary: Wolverine Street Law is a group of University of Michigan law student volunteers who teach law to members of the community. |
| Women Law Students Association (WLSA) |
Summary: The Women Law Students Association (WLSA) is the largest student organization at the University of Michigan Law School, and is open to both female and male members. WLSA has three main objectives: encouraging women to apply to and attend the Law School, promoting a non-sexist atmosphere within the Law School, and acting as a forum for discussion of women's issues. The Association was founded in 1967. |
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| Xi Chapter of Kappa Beta Pi |
Summary: Xi Chapter of Kappa Beta Pi was the women's legal fraternity at the University of Michigan Law School. |