American Bar Association Law Student Division (ABA/LSD)
The American Bar Association provides law school accreditation, continuing legal education, information about the law, programs to assist lawyers and judges in their work, and initiatives to improve the legal system for the public. The Mission of the ABA is to be the national representative of the legal profession, serving the public and the profession by promoting justice, professional excellence and respect for the law. Membership in the student division allows students to join the world’s largest professional organization of lawyers. Division membership also provides an excellent opportunity to establish contact with leading practitioners in the Association and law students throughout the country.
Representative: Tom Haynes
twhaynes@ualr.edu
American Civil Liberties Union
The purpose of the Bowen Student Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas (ACLU-AR) is to promote the cause of civil liberties among the students, faculty, and staff at the UALR Bowen School of Law and to take such action to further this purpose as is consistent with the policies and regulations of the ACLU-AR.
Executive Director: Bill Woodell
bxwoodell@ualr.edu
American Constitution Society
The American Constitution Society is one of the leading progressive legal organizations of lawyers, law students, scholars, judges, and policymakers in the United States that promotes progressive public policies and legal theories. The ACS is dedicated to values of human dignity, individual rights, and equality. The organization is committed to fostering a progressive vision of the law in areas such as civil liberties, discrimination, criminal justice, human rights, and constitutional interpretation. The ACS advances its aims through speaking programs, media and community outreach, and publications. The UALR William H. Bowen School of Law student chapter of the ACS focuses on bringing speakers to campus who address legal and policy topics that are central to the mission of the ACS.
President: Nathan Berry
nlberry@ualr.edu
Arkansas Association of Women Lawyers-Law Student Division
The purpose of AAWL is to honor, promote, and support women in the legal profession. AAWL is a service based organization that encourages reaching out to the community and maintaining high standards of personal and professional conduct. The student chapter fosters collegiality among women and provides its members with mentors from the AAWL parent chapter. AAWL also serves as a social outlet for women in law school.
President: Jen Rossmeier
jdrossmeier@ualr.edu
Arkansas Bar Association Law Student Division (ABA/LSD)
The objective of the Division is to further the purposes and goals of the Association, particularly to promote full and equal participation in the profession by minorities and women; to represent law students in the Association and to represent the Association to law students; to help shape the policies and priorities that affect legal education; and to create a deliberative forum for the exchange and expression of law student views and a voice to advocate those views.
Representative: Aimie Lockwood
ajlockwood@ualr.edu
Arkansas Trial Lawyers Association (ATLA)
The purpose of the student chapter of ATLA is to encourage law students to learn trial advocacy skills and demonstrate what it is like to be a trial lawyer. The student Chapter provides a way for students to become actively involved in the professional division of ATLA through open discussions and ATLA sponsored professional events. The goal of ATLA is to preserve the civil justice system and right to trial by jury.
President: Jason Johnson
jmjohnson@ualr.edu
Asian Pacific American Law Student Association (APALSA)
In 2007, the UALR William H. Bowen School of Law (UALR) chapter of the National Asian Pacific American Law Student Association (NAPALSA). NAPALSA was founded in 1981 and is the first and oldest national Asian Pacific American law organization. As a local chapter (APALSA), our goals are simple:
APALSA is open to all law students interested in Asian Pacific American issues.
If you are interested or would like additional information, please contact:
President: Elizabeth Manso
emmanso@ualr.edu
Black Law Students Association (BLSA)
The purpose of BLSA shall be to introduce black law students to the professional problems and responsibilities they will encounter upon admission to the practice of law, to address and represent the ideas and concerns of its members, and to promote cultural diversity and inclusion at the UALR Law School.
President: Martinque Parker
mmparker1@ualr.edu
Bowen Athletic Department
The Bowen Athletic Department is an organization that promotes student physical wellness and fellowship through athletics. In our first year as an officially recognized student organization we are looking to expand and promote student athletic activities. In the past couple of years law school students have successfully organized, hosted and participated in, golf tournaments, ultimate Frisbee, intramural flag football, intramural basketball, law firm league softball, 5k's, marathons, and the traditional "Malpractice Bowl."
Bowen Lambda
Bowen Lambda is a diverse UALR Law School organization consisting of students, faculty, staff and alumni, regardless of sex, gender identity or sexual orientation. Our mission includes promoting diversity, raising awareness of legal issues affecting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) communities, and maintaining an open atmosphere of acceptance, tolerance, equality and justice for all.
We focus on LGBT issues at the Bowen Law School, in the local community, and at the state and federal levels. From our founding in Summer 2007, we have helped organize educational events including forums on civil rights laws, sexual orientation discrimination, and legal arguments in same-sex custody cases. Other past activities include charitable supply drives, World Aids Day volunteering, and social events like the Walk for CommUNITY and a Federal Courthouse tour.
President: Scott Raper
wsraper@ualr.edu
Christian Legal Society
The purpose of the organization is to provide mutual support and encouragement, fellowship and spiritual growth to students at the Law School who identify themselves as followers of Jesus Christ, in order to assist them more faithfully live out the Christian commitment in their personal and academic lives, to prepare for future lives as Christian attorneys and to provide a witness and outreach for Jesus Christ in the Law School community.
President: Evan Bell
ecbell@ualr.edu
Criminal Law Society
Delta Theta Phi Legal Fraternity International (DTP)
Delta Theta Phi (DTP) members benefit from mentor programming, career forums throughout the year, numerous opportunities for community involvement, social gatherings, plentiful study aids, noteworthy and active alumni members, and the only law fraternity with a nationally, authoritatively recognized law journal open to DTP members only. Our bylaws state that: "The purpose… shall be to instill in every member the highest standards of personal integrity, diligence, candor and trust, of individual responsibility, of respect for law, rights and property of others and the highest ethical and professional standards of conduct in the study, practice, and teaching of the law. Further, the Fraternity seeks to provide an association for its members to network for scholastic, professional, and social purposes." At Bowen School of Law, DTP has received several outstanding Senate awards in recent years, has been written about in local philanthropic pamphlets, and implemented a career oriented luncheon program.
Dean: Kenya Gordon
kjgordon@ualr.edu
Environmental Law Society
The local Society is a member of a non-partisan, nationally diverse organization of environmental law societies whose purpose is to encourage the formation and improvement of Environmental Law Societies throughout the country, and to bring them together for mutual dialogue, cooperation, information transfer and inspiration; to promote the awareness of environmental issues and environmental rights among the general public and the legal community and to increase involvement in such issues; to foster the study of environmental law through expanded curricula and materials, and to encourage responsibility and activism in the public interest by environmental law practitioners and to create, promote, and support personal connections between Environmental Law students both during their time in law school and after graduation.
Federalist Society
The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies is a nonpolitical group interested in the current state of the legal order. It is founded on the 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 Society seeks both to promote an awareness of these principles and to further their application through debate and discussion among students, academics and legal practitioners, and public policy experts at the law school level.
President: Vincent P. France
vpfrance@ualr.edu
Hispanic Law Students Association (HLSA)
The objectives of HLSA are to promote the educational, cultural and social goals of the Hispanic community and also to enrich the lives of everyone at the Bowen School of Law. HLSA is also actively involved in the recruitment of students for a more diverse student body.
President: Dawn Castillo
dmcastillo@ualr.edu
Intellectual Property Law Society
We’re working to keep law students and practicing attorneys informed about career opportunities in the growing field of intellectual property law—and to help prepare you to get there. In addition to providing speakers and networking opportunities on campus, we’re aiming to pair you with a mentor and to help you apply for the patent bar exam—or to just help you stay informed about intellectual property law issues that could affect your practice.
President: Jeffrey Swann
jmswann@ualr.edu
International Law Society
The International Law Society of Arkansas assists students in networking with attorneys that practice international law and encourages students to learn about international law.
Irish-American Law Student's Society
The purposes of the Irish Law Student Society are to celebrate Irish culture among all law students, faculty, and legal professionals who share this interest; to cultivate and encourage professional and social associations between law students, faculty, and legal professionals of all customs and backgrounds; to encourage law students to study abroad in Ireland; to promote Irish community identity in Arkansas; and to promote the meaningful exchange of ideas in the Irish tradition.
President: Joshua Collums
jrcollums@ualr.edu
J. Reuben Clark Law Society
The J. Reuben Clark Law Society's purpose is to engender fairness and virtue among lawyers based upon their personal religious conviction and through public service to the community. It is a society composed primarily of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, but welcomes members of all faiths.
President: Kyler Ovard
keovard@ualr.edu
Law Review
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review has three primary objectives: (1) to publish articles, surveys, and essays that are timely and useful to Arkansas practitioners, the judiciary, and other members of the state’s legal community; (2) to publish material which reaches national and international legal audiences; and (3) to provide a forum for outstanding student work of both local and national interest, as well as an opportunity for students to gain experience editing scholarly articles.
Editor-in-Chief: Tyler Broyles
atbroyles@ualr.edu
Moot Court Board
The objectives of the Moot Court program are to encourage advocacy; to enhance writing skills; and to compete effectively in national moot court competitions. Membership on the board is determined after students participate in the Moot Court Competition class.
Chairperson: Janiella Shirley
jcshirley@ualr.edu
Out-of-State Student Association
The purpose of the Out-of-State Student Association (OSSA) shall be for educational and social development. OSSA will work to acclimate new law students to the Little Rock, AR metropolitan area. OSSA members are Bowen students from Arkansas with interests in practicing law outside Arkansas and Bowen students from other states with interests in practicing law inside of Arkansas. OSSA assists students with a desire to practice law inside and outside of Arkansas with developing and maintaining legal and personal relationships in local and distant metropolitan areas. Each OSSA member is eligible to participate in the attorney/student mentoring program designed to give each participant an individual experience with the legal community in the city of their choosing.
President: Rashida Sims
rxsims@ualr.edu
Part-time Student Association (PTSA)
The objective of the PTSA is to provide an organization for part-time students which will promote unity and cooperation, encourage fellowship and provide a basis from which to advocate for part-time division students.
Phi Alpha Delta (PAD)
Phi Alpha Delta's Declaration of Purpose reads as follows: “The purpose of this Fraternity shall be to form a strong bond uniting students and teachers of the law with members of the Bench and Bar in a fraternal fellowship designed to advance the ideals of liberty and equal justice under law; to stimulate excellence in scholarship; to inspire the virtues of compassion and courage; to foster integrity and professional competence; to promote the welfare of its members; and to encourage their moral, intellectual, and cultural advancement; so that each member may enjoy a lifetime of honorable professional and public service.” Phi Alpha Delta (PAD) is the world's largest law fraternity, with over 265,000 members worldwide. At UALR Bowen School of Law, PAD has over 65 members who are involved in academic success, community service, professional networking, and social interaction.
Justice: Elizabeth D. Davis
eddavis@ualr.edu
Pulaski County Bar Association, Student Division (PCBA)
The objectives of PCBA Student Division are to facilitate networking opportunities for law students with the local Bar.
President: Sherry McDowell
uncsherry@aol.com
Sports & Entertainment Law Society
The Sports and Entertainment Law Society serves students interested in sports and entertainment law through opportunities to network in the field. Members organize collectively to help bring in the best and brightest minds from the sports profession. Other entertainment and sports professionals are invited to the university to speak throughout the year.
President: Courtney Van Buren
cxvanburen@ualr.edu
“Street Law” Mentor Program (Street Law)
The purpose of the Street Law Mentor Program is to introduce the law and human rights to the youth of central Arkansas through mentor partnerships with area high schools. Objectives of the organization include assisting high school students as they prepare for mock trial competitions, introducing constitutional law issues to students through law student presentations, and providing a practical understanding of the law and encouragement to students interested in the law and the possibility of pursuing legal careers.
President: Mircha King
mcking@ualr.edu
Student Animal Legal Defense Fund
The purpose of SALDF is to provide a forum for education, advocacy, and scholarship aimed at protecting the lives and advancing the interests of animals through the legal system, and raising the profile of the field of animal law. SALDF is dedicated to the goals of educating the law school and surrounding community about forms of institutionalized animal abuse, and engaging in projects that combat that abuse.
President: Jayme Butts-Hall
jlbutts@ualr.edu
Student Bar Association (SBA)
The Student Bar Association creates opportunities for students to come together in academic, service-oriented, and social settings; represents student interests to the administration and faculty; apprises students of recent issues and developments concerning our school; and provides financial support to student organizations.
President: Cory Biggs
clbiggs@ualr.edu
Young Democrats
The Young Democrats seek to uphold the principles of the U.S. Constitution and traditions of responsible, compassionate governance personified by Democrats, past and present. This is an official Chapter of the Young Democrats of Arkansas and of the Young Democrats of America, which is a broad-based, youth-led grassroots political organization. The purpose of this Chapter is to provide an outlet for political expression, to provide educational opportunities on the issues that matter to you, to organize community and public service events, and to mobilize in support of Democrats in and seeking office at all levels.
President: Nader Afsordeh
ngafsordeh@ualr.edu
Young Republicans
The objectives of the Chapter are to provide opportunities for political expression and recognition; to provide opportunities to learn about the political process and the pertinent political issues of the day; to provide opportunities to become involved in and contribute to the development and betterment of the Republican Party within Pulaski County, across the state, and within the country; and to support the principles, objectives and platform of the Republican Party.
President: Daniel McFadden
dlmcfadden@ualr.edu
Revised: 7/2/2009