Start a Student Chapter

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Pace Law NLG

Interested in starting a NLG chapter at your school? Want to reinvigorate your chapter? Please contact NLG Director of Research and Education Traci Yoder at traci@nlg.org if you have questions or need any other help getting started!

Resources to help with student chapter organizing:

Student Chapter Checklist: List of steps to set up or re-start a law student chapter at your school!

Beyond Disorientation: An Organizing Guild for Guild Students. A guide for chapters who have already hosted Disorientation events and want to be more engaged. See the Disorientation page for information on Disorientation events.

Disorientation Organizing Resources:

NLG Letter to Incoming Progressive/Radical Students: Slideshow created by the Stanford Law NLG Chapter! Download and edit to fit your law school context.

Staying Radical in Law School (2020): Webinar produced by the NLG National Office which can be screened in part or whole during Disorientation.

Legal Education and the Legal Profession: List of readings and other resources analyzing the curricular, pedagogical, and institutional commitments of the legal education institution and, ultimately, the legal profession.

DisO Deprogramming 1Ls: Resource created by the NLG UC Davis NLG Chapter, including discussion questions for 1Ls to facilitate small group discussions.

Ten Things the NLG Can Do For You Recruitment Flyer: Printable flyer listing NLG membership benefits.

How To Introduce Law Students to the NLG : Resource for explaining the NLG to new law student members.

NLG Student Chapter Constitutions:

University of Minnesota NLG

UCLA NLG

NLG Student Chapter Bylaws:

Arizona Summit NLG

Cardozo NLG

Miami Law NLG

Southwestern NLG

UC Davis NLG

Other materials:

Sample Panel/Workshop Diversity Guidelines (Cardozo NLG)

Alabama ManifestoThe founding document of The United People of Color Caucus of the NLG (TUPOCC).

Sample Budgets are available upon request- email traci@nlg.org.

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University of District Columbia John Brittain NLG Chapter