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Through regular (bi-weekly) general membership meetings
and special events and projects, La Raza Law Students Association
aspires to build and maintain an engaged community of Latina/o law
students at Boalt Hall. Our office at 487 Simon Hall is always open
to members and our allies and is a fine place to check email via
our wireless connection, fax a resume, read for class, eat lunch
or just hang out.
The Association provides academic, career, and social
support to all members, such as through our mentoring program, which
pairs first year students with second and third year students. The
Association also sponsors events and projects throughout the year.
Below is a list of highlights for the current academic year (2004-2005).
September
- Community Service at Centro Legal de La Raza's Worker's
Rights Clinic
- Reception for new dean, Christopher C. Edley, Jr.
- Reception for Profesora Rachel Moran (co-hosted by Center for
Social Justice, Center for Latino Policy Research, and the Institute
for the Study of Social Change)
- Inauguration of the Haciendo Cambios (Making Changes) Freedom
School in Richmond, CA
- Reception for Maria Echaveste
October
- Community Service at Centro Legal de La Raza's Worker's Rights
Clinic
- Social Event: $2 Tuesday Oakland As game
- Delegates attend the VIII
Annual National Latina/o Law Student Association conference
in Denver, CO
- East Bay
La Raza Lawyers Association Scholarship Reception - "Realizing
the Dream: Access, Education, and Justice 50 Years After Brown
v. Board of Education"
- Olmos Lecture by Kamala Harris, S.F. District Attorney
- Raza Alumni Association Reception for Dean Edley (co-hosted by
the Center for Social Justice)
- Our Pueblo:
Defendiendo Nuestros Derechos community forum at U.C. Berkeley
- Social Event: Raza Potluck & Bowling Night!
- Calling Latina/o voters in Florida, New Mexico, and Nevada
- Get Out the Vote activities & Poll Watching in Florida, New
Mexico, and Nevada
- Reception hosted by Berkeley
Women's Law Journal for members of the African
American Law & Policy Report, the Asian
Law Journal, and the Berkeley
La Raza Law Journal
November
- Ofrenda para los Días de los Muertos (honoring those
who have been killed in the latest U.S. invasion of Iraq and highlighting
the deaths of Latina & Latino soldiers)
- U.S. Presidential Election
- Community Service at Centro Legal de La Raza's Worker's Rights
Clinic
- Reception for the Honorable Carlos Moreno
December
- Reception for Christopher Edley, Jr. and Maria Echaveste
We are always interested in recovering and remembering
la historia de nuestro Association. If you have information to share,
please contact us.
Highlights of Academic Year 2003-2004
July
- Five Latinas/os join the California Law Review!
August
-Reception for First Year Students - "Comida de Bienvenida"
(co-hosted with the Berkeley La Raza Law Journal)
September
- Reception for new Acting Professor Goodwin Liu
(co-sponsored with the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association
and the Coalition for Diversity)
- Social Event: $2 Tuesday Oakland As game
- Supporting the Annual Teach-In of the Coalition for Diversity
- Activism to defeat Prop. 54
- Center for Social Justice, Ruth Chance Lecture by Maria Blanco
(on Prop. 54)
October
- Gubernatorial Recall Election - Defeat of Prop. 54!
- Seventh Annual National Latino Law Student Association conference
at U.C.L.A.
- Annual Law School Admissions Workshop
- Alumni Celebration Dinner
- East Bay
La Raza Lawyers Association Scholarship Reception - "Moving
California Forward"
(keynote speech by New Mexico Supreme Court Chief Justice Petra
J. Maes)
November
- Ofrenda para los Días de los Muertos - "Honoring las
Mujeres de Ciudad Juárez"
- Release Party of the Berkeley La Raza Law Journal
December
- Community Service at Centro Legal de La Raza's Worker's Rights
Clinic
February
- Community Service at Centro Legal de La Raza's Worker's Rights
Clinic
March
- Community Service at Centro Legal de La Raza's Worker's
Rights Clinic
- Outreach to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
April
- Community Service at Centro Legal de La Raza's Worker's Rights
Clinic
- Outreach to Cal Poly Pomona
- Five Latinas/os are elected to the Executive Committee of the
California Law Review!
- Admitted Students Weekend
May
- First Cruz Reynoso
Social Justice Fellowship Award Dinner
- Community Service at Centro Legal de La Raza's Worker's Rights
Clinic
- Graduation Brunch for the Clase def 2004
Highlights of Academic Year 2002-2003
August
- Start of academic year
September
- East
Bay La Raza Lawyers Association Scholarship Reception - "Investing
in California's Future" (co-sponsored with the Duran Foundation
and honoring new California Supreme Court Justice Carlos Moreno)
October
- Raza Alumni Dinner & Strategy Session
- Law School Bootcamp (admissions workshop)
- Sixth Annual National Latino Law Student Association conference
at Stanford University
November
- Ofrenda para los Días de los Muertos (honoring the people
who've died while attempting to cross the México-California
border, militarized since 1994 by Operation: Gatekeeper)
- Membership Retreat
- Sponsoring a family's Thanksgiving meal
December
- Christmas toy drive
January
- 1L Retreat at Stinson's Beach
March
- Journal Retreat and Candidates' Forum
- Organizing students to travel to Washington D.C.
April
- Engaging the protest and listening to the oral arguments in the
Bollinger cases (determining the law of affirmative action
in higher education)
- Admitted Students Weekend
- First Cruz
Reynoso Social Justice Fellowship Dinner (fundraiser)
May
- Raza Graduation Brunch (Class of 2003)
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