Student Organizations
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Student Bar Association
All students at the Chase College of Law are voting members of the Student Bar Association (SBA). Through SBA’s elected officers and representatives, the organization acts as the official advocate of the student body. SBA sponsors a number of social, professional and community-service programs and events. Students take an active role in the development of the Chase College of Law through SBA’s participation on a number of faculty-student committees. The SBA represents the Chase student body at district, circuit and national American Bar Association/Law Student Division meetings.
American Constitution Society for Law and Policy
The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy (ACS) is one of the nation's leading progressive legal organizations. Founded in 2001, ACS is a rapidly growing network of lawyers, law students, scholars, judges, policymakers and other concerned individuals. The organization’s mission is to ensure that fundamental principles of human dignity, individual rights and liberties, genuine equality, and access to justice enjoy their rightful, central place in American law. Through student and lawyer chapters all across the country, and programs and projects at both the national and local level, ACS: promotes a progressive vision of the Constitution, law and public policy; educates lawyers, law students, decision-makers and the public about the historic basis and vitality of such a vision and its importance for the lives of real people; strengthens the intellectual underpinnings for progressive law and policy in the United States; and continues to build a diverse and dynamic national network.
Black Law Students Association
The purposes of the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) include: articulating and promoting the professional needs and goals of African-American law students and providing them with opportunities for peer support in the study of law; fostering professional competence; instilling in African-American attorneys and law students an enhanced appreciation of and commitment to implementing steps to meet the needs of the African-American community; influencing the legal community to respond in a meaningful way to meet the needs of the African-American community; and engaging in public service activities.
Chase Latino Law Association
The Chase Latino Law Association provides a forum for Latino students and other students and professors interested in the Latino/Hispanic culture and traditions and the Spanish language. Through programming and other activities, the Latino Law Association celebrates this culture, promotes relationships with the Latino legal educational community and legal societies throughout the country, and seeks to enhance the character and diversity of culture at NKU Chase.
Chase Public Interest Group
The Chase Public Interest Group’s mission is to educate future lawyers about the inequities that exist in our legal system, and to prepare them to dedicate their professional efforts to developing a more just society. The group’s activities include hosting speakers from the public interest field, educating students about opportunities in public interest law, participating in public service activities, and raising funds for summer public interest fellowships for Chase students.
Chase Student Advocacy Society
The Chase Student Advocacy Society is the student arm of the Chase Center for Excellence in Advocacy. The Society’s mission is to create opportunities for students to participate in activities that will teach them advocacy and litigation skills they can use upon graduation. The Society hosts guest speakers, organizes various competitions, sponsors CLE programs, and creates networking opportunities for students interested in various areas of litigation and law practice.
Christian Legal Society
The Chase Christian Legal Society provides support and fellowship for its members. The group meets monthly for Bible studies, lunch, discussions, and on occasion, to hear invited guest speakers. The group engages in service projects such as Operation Christmas Child, Habitat for Humanity, and feeding the homeless at a local shelter.
The Federalist Society for Law & Public Policy Studies
The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies comprises law students interested in the current state of the legal order who believe that principles and legal rules strongly influence the direction of social development, and in doing so, can secure or impede individual rights and liberties. The Society is founded on the principles that the state exists to preserve freedom, that the separation of governmental powers is central to the Constitution and that the province and duty of the judiciary is to say what the law is, not what it should be. The Society’s activities include public debates and lectures and informal social events throughout the year. The Society, which exists solely to promote the exchange of ideas, does not adopt political stances or advocate for political outcomes, lobby for legislation, nor does it endorse nominees or candidates.
International Law Student Association
The Chase chapter of the International Law Students Association (ILSA) is open to all students, and is dedicated to the study and promotion of international law and international legal issues. ILSA focuses on supplementing the traditional domestic law curriculum by providing opportunities for study abroad, lectures on various topics of interest, and social activities for networking.
The Legal Association of Women
The Legal Association of Women (LAW), open to all Chase students, serves as a support, information and mentoring system for students entering the traditionally male profession of law. Its activities have included guest speakers; seminars on nontraditional legal careers and dressing for the legal environment; sponsorship of a book award; development of a mentoring program between members and local attorneys; organization of debates for the Student Bar Association and hosting a reception for the Women Lawyers’ Section of the Northern Kentucky Bar Association.
Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity International
Phi Alpha Delta (PAD) is an international fraternity with over 240,000 members throughout the world. There are 189 law school chapters, 97 alumni chapters, and nearly 250 pre-law chapters of PAD. Membership in PAD is open to all Chase students who apply to join and pay chapter dues. PAD is dedicated to "Service to the Student, the School, the Profession and the Community." To this end, PAD offers numerous events designed to make their members’ law school experience as enjoyable as possible through social events, and as useful as possible upon graduation through networking opportunities.
Transactional Law Practice Group
The Transactional Law Practice Group is the student arm of the Transactional Law Practice Center at the Chase College of Law. This group is dedicated to providing top quality programming to students, such as the "Essential Skills Workshops" which teach practical knowledge normally developed in the first several years of law practice. In addition, this group hosts some of the area's top attorneys in transactional law through the Center’s speaker series.