The Office of Student Affairs oversees registered student organizations. Charles Johnson, Director of Student Activities (718) 340-4204, assists student organizations with event planning and activities.

CUNY School of Law student organizations cover many areas of interests, but students are encouraged to form and register new organizations if a specific interest or mission is not reflected in any of the existing organizations.

AGAPE Christian Fellowship

This group explores how Christian values foster social justice. The group supports spiritual growth through the study of the Bible and Christian tradition.

Advocates for Students with Kids

This organization was formed to address the issues Law School students face in balancing child care and school. ASK works to ensure comprehensive child care at CUNY Law to include children under 2.3 years of age. CUNY Law prides itself on being an innovative law school and one of the first to offer on-site child care. ASK seeks to ensure that CUNY continues to implement groundbreaking policy changes to accommodate the needs of its students and the modern family.

American Bar Association Law Student Division

This is a national organization that provides students invaluable inside information into the field of lawyering. Among many other benefits, there are excellent opportunities for networking and leadership positions in over 600 different legal areas.

American Constitution Society

The CUNY Chapter works to ensure that the fundamental principles of human dignity, individual rights and liberties, genuine equality, and access to justice are in their rightful, central place in American law. ACS is one of the nation's leading progressive legal organizations.

Asian Pacific American Law Students Association

This organization strives to promote a greater understanding of Asian-Pacific American legal issues affecting our diverse communities and cultures by serving as a vehicle for political activity and by providing thorough academic support for future Asian Pacific American lawyers. APALSA is a co-sponsor of a student-organized pre-law workshop for incoming students.

Black Law Students Association

The purposes of this group are to ensure its members successful completion of law school by providing mentors, study sessions and counseling; sponsoring conferences, workshops, lectures and networking activities; and providing help in finding summer and full-time employment. BLSA is part of National BLSA and co-sponsors a student-organized pre-law workshop for incoming students.

Criminal Law Society

This organization is devoted to increasing awareness among CUNY School of Law around issues facing criminal defendants and victims in the community, as well as engaging in direct advocacy of partnerships and residents in the surrounding neighborhood.

CUNY ACLU

This group engages students of the CUNY Law community with activities and panel creating awareness for the pressing need to protect civil rights and liberties.

CUNY Contemplative Urban Law Program

This program pushes the boundaries of the legal profession past adversarial relationships through self-sustaining and collaborative practices such as non-violent communication, active listening, and stress management through meditation and yoga.

CUNY Labor Coalition for Workers Rights and Economic Justice

This organization is dedicated to preventing and combating domestic violence, while supporting and advocating for survivors of domestic violence.

CUNY Law Justice

This is the Law School's basketball team. The team plays organized games in the metropolitan area Law League and coordinates scrimmages and special games involving CUNY staff and faculty.

Domestic Violence Coalition

The Domestic Violence Coalition is dedicated to preventing and combating domestic violence, while supporting and advocating for survivors of domestic violence.

Indigenous Peoples Law Student’s Association

This association is comprised of law students dedicated to numerous worthwhile tasks, first among them creating an academically rich and welcoming environment for law students of indigenous heritage and background. Incorporating Indigenous peoples’ various experiences and perspectives into the theory and practice of law is an important part of our work.

Inter-American Comparative Law Association - Cuba Delegation

This group sends law students to Cuba each summer to study the similarities and differences between U.S. and Cuban law.

International Law Organization

The goal of this organization is to increase awareness and understanding of international law, and to educate the CUNY community about recent advances and conduct legal research. The organization monitors and researches developments in this area and sponsors speakers, films and other information forums. ILO is the CUNY chapter of the International Law Students Association.

Irish Law Students Association

This group promotes Irish heritage, culture, intercultural relations and knowledge of contemporary Irish politics. ILSA sponsors the annual St. Patrick s Day luncheon as a principal way to fund its Joseph Doherty Civil Rights Fellowship for CUNY law students. ILSA is committed to human rights and has regularly invited renowned guest speakers to speak. ILSA’s primary objective is to raise awareness of human rights, political rights, and civil rights struggles around the world.

Jewish Law Students Association

This association provides a forum for students to discuss a wide range of issues of particular concern to Jewish law students, including professional, political, religious, and social issues. Activities have included holiday discussions, speakers on the Israeli political system, and informal parties.

Justice Basketball

This organization promote the CUNY community by providing an outlet for students to participate in and represent CUNY Law in a citywide basketball league that is created for lawyers and law students.

Latin American Law Students Association

This group sponsors academic, cultural, social, and community service activities to strengthen the presence of Latinos in the legal profession. LALSA serves as a liaison between its members and the administration, the student body, alumni, and professionals in the field. LALSA also works to increase the number of Latin American students at CUNY and to ensure that students receive support to achieve academic and professional success. LALSA is a co-sponsor of a student-organized pre-law workshop for incoming students.

Law Labor Coalition

This group aims to provide CUNY Law students with organized opportunities to raise and address labor-related issues. By coordinating grassroots activism and addressing global issues developments in labor through educational events.

LEAP (Law Equality and Policy)

This organization serves to provide an opportunity for future lawyers and leaders to affect positive change in the social, judicial, political and economic policies that shape our nation and the world. The mission is grounded in three main ideas -- that policy should be based on values of human dignity and respect; that policy reflects an interaction between people and their environments; and that the role of future lawyers and leaders is critical in how policies shape the world.

Mississippi Project

This extracurricular group organizes a trip to Mississippi for students to aid in the continuing struggle against oppressive conditions faced by marginalized groups in the state’s workplaces and courtrooms. Past delegations have worked on legal issues ranging from Title VII claims to worker compensation laws. CUNY students working with the Innocence Project spend approximately two weeks investigating claims of wrongful conviction for individuals incarcerated in Mississippi.

Moot Court

This activity helps students gain written and oral advocacy skills. These skills include researching, brief writing, public speaking, and teamwork. Competitions provide for one-on-one feedback and support from faculty, as well as the opportunity to develop confidence and crucial trial and appellate practice skills.

Muslim Law Students Association

This organization promotes the accurate understanding of the Muslim faith and Islam to the legal field; in doing so they hope to redress the misconceptions promoted in media and our social arena.

National Lawyers Guild

The CUNY Chapter follows NLG’s mission that human rights shall be regarded as more sacred than property interests. The chapter conducts Street Law Trainings; organizes legal observer trainings, voter registration and Fair Trade Coffee campaigns; and schedules panel discussions on various issues ranging from anti-death penalty and prison reform to environmental activism. Street law is a student-run program that aims to empower disenfranchised community members through brief exposure to criminal procedure.

New York City Law Review

This is a student-run publication that seeks to publish the best of legal scholarship from all points of view on various legal topics within the broad framework of the Law School s mission. NYCLR also serves to enhance the legal education of its members, while providing a meaningful forum for the exchange of ideas.

OUTLaws

OutLaws is the association for GLBT, PWA, HIV+ communities and their allies, bringing social, educational, political and cultural events to the law school. The organization aims to enhance the diversity of legal education at CUNY by providing a safe space for all students, staff and faculty to discuss social, legal and extra-legal issues involving people who are HIV+, living with AIDS, gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, transgendered and other sexual minorities.

Phi Alpha Delta

This is a professional legal fraternity that publishes The Reporter quarterly and holds a biennial conference. Phi Alpha Delta serves as a conduit for meeting other law school students, attorneys, and judges who are members of the fraternity.

Public Interest Law Association

This is a student-directed organization that promotes the participation of public interest forums and public interest legal work through fundraising activities, including the annual PILA auction (a social highlight of the year). PILA funds student summer public interest internships.

Reproductive Justice

This group strives to educate, organize and support law students to ensure tha a new generation of advocates will be prepared to protect and expand reproductive rights as basic civil and human rights.

South Asian Law Student Association

This organization aims to mobilize CUNY Law students for the purposes of community organizing and outreach, academic achievement, career opportunities and the celebration of South Asian culture.

Sports and Entertainment Law Society's

The purpose of this group is to prepare law students to represent artists and athletes from underprivileged communities as they develop careers in the entertainment industry.

Student Government

This is an independent mechanism for unified student action and a voice for academic, government, political, and social concerns.

Students 4 Students

This is a coalition of CUNY Law students dedicated to peer-to-peer support and greater dialogue about academic concerns within the CUNY Community. Our goal is to advocate on behalf of the entire student body to implement a more progressive academic policy, one that meets our bar passage requirements while staying true to our mission of “law in the service of human needs.”