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)