Students have the opportunity this week to learn about LLS' 20+ clinics, field placements and practica at the Experiential Learning Fair (also known as ELF) to be held virtually through April 1. The clinics will host an Open House on March 29 to provide interested students an opportunity to meet clinical faculty and staff, check out the Loyola Social Justice Law Clinic space and nosh on free treats. In addition to learning more about the programs themselves, both of these events will offer details on program admissions processes (enrollment for many is by application only, due April 4). View ELF schedule>>

Visit the library during National Library Week (April 4-7)!  As we head toward reading period and final exams, rediscover the library as a place where you can get study tips and materials, ask for research help from librarians, and access wellness materials to help with stress.  When law school becomes stressful, we're here for you! During Library Week, you can meet a librarian at the newly reopened Reference Desk, pick up a gavel-shaped stress ball, and check off the items on your Library Week Passport to enter a raffle. Don’t miss the study tip board, and while supplies last, snacks and swag! More>>

LLS OutLaw and the Spectrum Institute will host "1972," a presentation that will focus on the founding of the first gay law student association as well as the trials and tribulations overcome by this early group of LGBTQ+ activists. The event will be from 12-1 p.m. on Wednesday, March 30. RSVP>>

The Intellectual Property & Information Law Speaker Series concludes with its final speaker next Monday, April 4 at 12 p.m. with UCLA Professor Michela Giorcelli. She will discuss Copyright and Creativity: Evidence from Italian Opera in the Napoleonic Age. More>>

Join the Youth Justice Education Clinic, scholars and lawyers in a conversation about why and how BIPOC students and students with disabilities are disproportionately impacted by the School-to-Prison nexus phenomenon. We will also discuss policy and legal solutions to fight to keepkids out of the juvenile (in)justice system. If you're interested in these topics, consider applying to YJEC to work on these issues! RSVP>>

Join the Center for the Study of Law and Genocide on Monday, April 4, from 12 to 1 p.m. for an examination of the important factual, legal, and humanitarian issues at the heart of this conflict. Panelists include Chimène Keitner (UC Hastings College of the Law), Donald Bloxham (University of Edinburgh) and commentator Michael Bazyler (Chapman University School of Law). Circumstances permitting, we will also be joined by Yarema Kondratyuk, Esq., managing partner of Kodary, a law firm in Lviv, Ukraine, and Szymon Gostynski, Esq, of Gostynski & Partners in Krakow, Poland. RSVP>>

Join the LA public Library as they host Loyola Law professors, Yxta Maya Murray and Kathleen Kim. Professor Murray will read from her play Advice & Consent  accompanied by Professor Kim on violin. The two discuss the inspiration for their play and musical score on the 2018 Christine Blasey Ford hearings for the Supreme Court regarding Brett Kavanaugh. Feel the emotion of this chapter in U.S. legal history and its impact on women. The event will be from 12-1 p.m. on April 4.  Learn More>>

On April 20, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. the Rights in Systems Enforced (RISE) Clinic will hosting a symposium in honor of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week (NCVRW), a week led by the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) dedicated to celebrating the accomplishments in the victims’ rights movement as well as an opportunity to reflect on the importance of helping crime survivors find justice. This year’s NCVRW will be observed April 24-30, 2022. RSVP>>