Student Organizations
The Lewis & Clark Student Bar Association serves as the official student body representative and liaison to the law school’s administration, faculty, and student services. The SBA aims to provide helpful information for current students, alumni, and prospective students seeking insight into life at Lewis & Clark Law School.
Beyond the SBA, there are a wide range of student organizations that reflect a variety of interests and focus areas. The Student Affairs Office supports these organizations by overseeing their activation, reactivation, budgeting, and activities. All student organizations are open to current law students.
Law Student Organization Information
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Active Student Organizations | 2025–2026 Academic Year
American Constitution Society
American Constitution Society (ACS) is a national organization of law students, law professors, judges, practicing lawyers and others. The Lewis & Clark Law School chapter was jointly founded in August 2003 by law students and professors who were interested in revitalizing and transforming legal debate both on campus and beyond. Our goal is to strengthen the intellectual foundations of a more progressive vision of the law. We provide forums for discussion and debate within the L&C Law School Community on issues such as: privacy; freedom of speech; federalism; antidiscrimination and affirmative action; gay rights; reproductive choice; disability rights; labor and consumer rights; protection of health, safety, and the environment.
Animal Legal Defense Fund - Lewis & Clark Student Chapter
The Lewis & Clark Law School Animal Legal Defense Fund is a student group that strives to enhance the welfare and legal status of all nonhuman animals through education and advocacy. We provide opportunities for animal law pro bono work, community service, and activism, and we hold many informative and celebratory events throughout the year that promote critical thinking about animals’ various relationship to humans—companion animals, food, research subjects, entertainers, elements of biodiversity, etc.—and exploration of our legal duties to the animals in those relationships.
Arts & Crafts Club
The Arts & Crafts Club is dedicated to fostering creativity, wellness, and community among students. Our mission is to provide a welcoming space where students can explore various crafts, connect with peers, and find a healthy balance amidst the rigors of law school. Through various projects, workshops, and events, we aim to inspire self-expression, cultivate new skills, and support a vibrant, inclusive artistic community on campus.
Asian Pacific American Law Student Association
APALSA provides its members with personal, academic, and professional support to aid in the development of its law students. We work with attorneys in the Portland area to provide networking and professional development opportunities for APALSA members. We also hold several events throughout the school year to build a sense of community within APALSA and the rest of the student body.
Black Law Student Association
The Black Law Student Association is a student run club that includes members from diverse backgrounds; BLSA is dynamic and is dedicated to increasing diversity and communication amongst students and legal professionals. Our organization was formed in order to articulate and promote the needs of black law students, while effecting positive change in the legal community. By encouraging students to pursue careers in the judiciary, we hope to adopt and implement policies that will foster economic independence.
Business Law Society
We promote social and academic interaction among Lewis &Clark Law School students interested in the various aspects of business, corporate and financial law. The BLS sponsors social activities, speakers, panel discussions, and other events that encourage members to interact with various legal practitioners in the community, faculty and staff, and local corporate counsel. Our goal is to enhance the legal education of our members and promote an inter-disciplinary curriculum in business, corporate and financial law.
Criminal Defense Association of Lewis & Clark Law
The Criminal Defense Association of Lewis & Clark Law (CDALCL) is a student-run organization focused on recruiting and preparing students for a career in criminal defense, establishing connections between students and criminal defense attorneys, and maintaining an open environment where anyone interested in criminal defense can come learn more about the field. Oregon is currently experiencing a public defense crisis that is worsening with each arrest. Over 3,000 criminal defendants in Oregon are without assistance of counsel. With the effective repeal of Measure 110 through HB 4002, this unrepresented list will expand. For those students who want to help the average citizen, for those students who want to fight back against the ever growing power of the police state, for those students who want less people in cages, CDALCL is here.
Data Privacy Group
The Data Privacy Group is a student-run organization that offers students the opportunity to learn more about Data Privacy and Security Law. As an emerging area of law, we hope to connect students with different opportunities and learning experiences to gain a better understanding of this exciting new field! Also, we are evening student friendly; all of our meetings and events will take into consideration evening student schedules.
Disability Allied Law Student Association (DALSA)
The LC Disability Allied Law Students Association’s (LC-DALSA) purpose is to create accessible spaces on campus, provide much needed representation for differently-abled students at LC, and to organize students around disability rights. DALSA is Lewis and Clark’s affinity group for people who identify as differently abled and their allies. The group centers around physical disabilities, mental health, sensory impairments, learning disabilities, communication disorders, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and other impairments that may limit or substantially alter major life activities. Our goal is to deploy an intersectional and inclusive approach that is informed by the varied experiences that people with disabilities have based on their race, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, visibility of disability, religion, immigration status, ability and class. We seek to go beyond a medical diagnosis model and to focus on the different social and professional experiences of individuals with disabilities and how that relates to the study and practice of law. DALSA will work both independently and co-dependently with student groups and the LC Law administration to provide programming to educate the law school community about how disability is experienced by different groups of people and how that experience is codified by the law. DALSA aims to amplify the awareness of and people with disabilities in all areas of the law.
Entertainment & Media Law Society
The Entertainment, Sports, Media (ESM) Law Society is an all-inclusive student organization founded to: Provide a forum for students to learn and discuss the complex legal issues involved with current entertainment, arts and sports law practice. Promote community involvement through special events, fund raisers and networking. Increase awareness of legal issues facing local artists, artistic organizations and the community at large. Connect students with local and national legal professionals involved in the various industries as well as artists, entertainers and athletes through on-campus speakers, panel discussions and social events. Promote participation and appreciation of Portland’s music, art, film and sports communities in general.
Federalist Society
The Federalist Society of Lewis & Clark Law School seeks to contribute political balance to legal education by providing a forum for legal experts of opposing views to interact with law students. The federalist society is one of the most influential student groups in the country. The group sponsors speakers who support judicial restraint (from activism), federalism, and the constitution generally, and sponsors free lunches for speeches and debates specifically. The group is apolitical and open to all legal topics for discussion.
Golf Recreation Equity & Excellence at the Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College (GREEN)
GREEN (Golf Recreation Equity & Excellence at the Northwestern School of Law) was founded in 2022 to make golf more accessible, provide a space for golfers to meet other golfers, and build community between students of all years at Lewis & Clark Law School. Our members range in skill from never swung a club, to college athletes, and everywhere in between.
If/When/How (Law Students for Reproductive Justice)
If/When/How trains, networks and mobilizes law students and legal professionals to work within and beyond the legal system to champion reproductive justice. In collaboration with communities, organizations, and movements, we transform the law and policy landscape through advocacy, support, and organizing so that all people – especially those most likely to face reproductive injustice – have the power to determine if, when, and how to define, create, and sustain families with dignity and to actualize sexual and reproductive wellbeing on their own terms.
Immigration Student Group (ISG)
The Immigration Student Group (ISG) seeks to promote awareness and understanding of immigration issues within the United States and around the world. ISG strongly encourages hands-on involvement with the immigrant community, and coordinates regular volunteer trips to detention centers to provide help to parents and children seeking asylum. Throughout the year, ISG invites lecturers to speak about current events, holds donation drives, and shares volunteer opportunities.
Intellectual Property Student Organization (IPSO)
IPSO is a group dedicated to all aspects of intellectual property, including the big three of Patent, Trademark and Copyright. This dynamic subject matter is relevant to many different interests and crosses many boundaries, so there’s no shortage of new and interesting topics for discussion. IPSO is the place for engaging in that discussion, whether one’s interest is in protecting artistic expression, technical innovation, or your image.
International Law Society (ILS)
The International Law Society (ILS) at Lewis and Clark is a chapter of the International Law Students Association. The ILS follows the goal of the parent organization in seeking to promote international law; to encourage communication and cooperation among students and lawyers internationally; to contribute to legal education; to promote social responsibility in the field of law; to increase opportunities for students to learn about other cultures and legal systems worldwide; and to publicizing educational and career opportunities in international law.
Jewish Legal Society
The Jewish Legal Society (JLS) is a cultural, social, educational, and religious organization that reflects the varied interests of the Jewish community at Lewis & Clark Law School. Our organization strives to foster an inclusive coalition between Jewish (and non-Jewish) LC students, faculty, and administration. JLS also hopes to provide students a place for support during school and a network for professional development alongside the greater Portland Jewish community.
Labor and Employment Law Society
The Labor and Employment Law Society of Lewis & Clark Law School was established in 2010 with the goal of providing law students with opportunities to learn about and discuss employment and labor law issues. We aim to keep students informed about the exciting changes in these areas and to create networking opportunities with local employment and labor attorneys.
Latiné Law Society
The Latiné Law Society is an organization comprised of Latino students and students who support the organization’s goals. The organization promotes: the recruitment and retention of Latino students; unity among the Latino students; and awareness and understanding in the law school and the community of perspectives, culture, heritage and issues concerning Latinos. Additionally, LLS provides a support system for its members. We are an equal opportunity organization, you do not need to be Latino to join just have an interest in Latino issues, culture and heritage
LCFC Soccer Club
To spread a love of soccer in the LC Law community through weekly pickup games for all interested individuals, social events for soccer fans and supporting health and wellness through the beautiful game.
Lewis & Clark Plaintiffs’ Law Association
The Lewis and Clark Plaintiffs’ Law Association is dedicated to promoting awareness and support for law students interested plaintiff-side legal work. We believe that plaintiff lawyers play a crucial role in advocating for victims, holding powerful institutions accountable for mass torts, and promoting justice through the legal system.
Lewis and Clark Trial Blazers
We aim to bring the law community at Lewis and Clark together through the game of basketball, through weekly pick up games, as well as social events to come together and enjoy Portland’s favorite sport.
Litigation Intensive Training
Litigation Intensive Training (“LIT”) is Lewis & Clark’s first-ever Mock Trial Club for law students who want to build trial advocacy skills, but are not yet ready (or are unable to commit) to being on the formal Mock Trial Team. As part of LIT, law students will be able to take part in opportunities to be mentored by current
National Lawyers Guild
The National Lawyers Guild is national non-profit legal and political organization of lawyers, legal workers, law students and jailhouse lawyers. We represent progressive political movements, using the law to protect human rights above property interests and to attain social justice. If you want to organize against the death penalty, go out into the community to inform people of their rights by being a “Know Your Rights” trainer, be a presence in Portland activist community through legal observing, or just meet with progressive lawyers, we can make it happen.
Native American Law Student Association (NALSA)
The Native American Law Students Association (NALSA) would like to invite you to our next activity. NALSA is open to all members of the Lewis & Clark Community and looks forward to your participation! NALSA’s goals are to educate the Lewis & Clark Community about legal issues affecting Native American and Alaskan Native communities, promote the study of Federal Indian law, and encourage interaction with local tribes.
Northwest Environmental Defense Center (NEDC)
NEDC was established by a group of professors, law students and attorney alumni at Lewis & Clark Law School in 1969. NEDC is an independent nonprofit organization working to protect the environment and natural resources of the Pacific Northwest.
Oregon Arab Iranian Law Student Association
The Oregon Arab Iranian Law Student Association (OAILSA) is the student chapter of the Oregon Arab Iranian Bar Association, whose mission is to strengthen the rapidly growing Arab and Iranian legal communities with a recognized and trusted forum for professional growth and advancement, and to promote the civil rights and access to justice for Oregon’s Arab and Iranian communities
OUTLAW
Lewis & Clark OutLaw provides a forum for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, Two-Spirit, queer/questioning law students and their allies to meet, exchange ideas, share experiences, build community, and bring pertinent legal and political issues of the LGBTQ+ community to the L&C law campus via panels, social events, lectures, trainings, and forums.
Parents Attending Law School (PALS)
Parents Attending Law School (PALS) is dedicated to supporting law students who are navigating the unique challenges of balancing parenthood and caregiving and the rigors of legal education. Our mission is to build a community where parent-law students feel seen, supported, and empowered to thrive both academically and personally. Through advocacy, resource-sharing, and mutual encouragement, we aim to foster an inclusive environment that celebrates the resilience of parents pursuing their legal careers.
Phi Alpha Delta (P.A.D.)
Phi Alpha Delta is the largest law fraternity with over 330,000 sisters and brothers worldwide, and is noted as the first law fraternity in the country to extend membership to all genders, races, creeds, and national origins. The Llewellyn Chapter at Lewis & Clark continues the fraternity’s tradition of advancing justice and inclusivity in the legal system by developing impactful community service projects and committing to our core values: Compassion, Courage, Diversity, Innovation, Integrity, Professionalism, and Service.
Pickleball Law League
The Pickleball Law League is an inclusive environment that promotes friendly competition, camaraderie, and the love of pickleball. The PLL meets on a regular basis and hosts a variety of events, including round-robins, king of the court, and tournament style play. No prior experience necessary, all are welcome!
Public Interest Law Project (PILP)
PILP’s mission is to contribute to the public interest by financially supporting students and graduates who choose fulfilling careers working for the public good. Throughout the academic year the board and many hard-working volunteers hold fundraising events, culminating in the annual Auction. Annual events include Karaoke with professors and a Poker Tournament. The Auction takes place in March and preparation goes on all year. These fundraising efforts allow PILP to fund 10-15 students every summer to work in public interest. Summer stipend recipients have worked for a variety of organizations, dealing with issues such as children’s rights, environmental protection, domestic violence, and civil rights.
Ski Club
To enable the everyday Lewis & Clark Law School student to enjoy the splendors of the Oregon outdoors, while maximizing outdoor recreational opportunities.
South Asian Law Student Association (SALSA)
The Lewis & Clark South Asian Law Students Association (L&C SALSA) provides its members with tools and support to excel academically and professionally. This organization works closely with the South Asian Bar Association of Oregon (SABA OR), primarily to build a strong and well-connected community of South Asian lawyers and students in Oregon.
Students for International Environmental Law (SIEL)
The mission of Students for International Environmental Law (SIEL) at Lewis & Clark Law School is to promote education and collaboration on issues of international environmental law within the community at the local, national, and global levels. SIEL will accomplish these goals by: sharing developments and promoting discussion; coordinating projects both internally and with other groups; hosting international law focused events; facilitating networking opportunities; and sharing information on careers in the international environmental law field.
Tax Law Society
The purpose of the Tax Law Society is to expose students to both the basic and niche areas of the tax code and introduce students to practicing tax attorneys. Our group is not solely for those interested in practicing as a tax attorney, we also wish show students how understanding the basics of the tax code is useful in every practice area and how one can use the tax code as a tool for legal advocacy. To achieve our goals we are dedicated to enhancing the experience of law students at Lewis and Clark through group discussions lead by tax practitioners and networking events.
We Vote
We Vote is dedicated to encouraging and facilitating the full participation of our community in the voting process. We believe that voting is a fundamental right for every citizen, and it is crucial that everyone has the opportunity to use their voice. By partnering with local voter outreach organizations to provide educational resources about the voting process and helping students register to vote, we can ensure that every member of our community has the chance to be heard.
Women in Criminal Law (WICL)
Women in Criminal Law is a student-run organization that seeks to empower women and minorities to pursue careers in criminal law, a field that is historically underrepresented by these individuals. WICL is an open group that facilitates social events, on-campus speakers, panel discussions, and other events for students. We welcome all students who have an interest in criminal law and value diversity in the legal community. Our goal is to enhance the presence of criminal law on campus while providing a support system for our members.
Women’s Law Caucus
The purpose of the Women’s Law Caucus is to bring together the community of Lewis & Clark Law students interested in exploring the wide spectrum of legal issues affecting women. The WLC promotes women in the law by providing support and encouragement to students, enhancing ties with the community, and empowering future female leaders who will work toward the advancement of women’s legal rights. All who are interested in advancing women’s legal rights and empowering females are welcome to join, regardless of gender.