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Social Justice ProgramVanderbilt Law School's Social Justice Program promotes a wide variety of educational and scholarly activities aimed at exploring the role of law in creating, perpetuating and eradicating hierarchies of power and privilege in our society. The program seeks to address inequalities based on race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and social and economic status, as well as the responsibility of the legal profession to protect the interests of marginalized, subordinated, and underrepresented clients and causes. The Social Justice Program does not recommend a particular course of study. However, students are encouraged to select from among a variety of courses included in the Social Justice Curriculum. These include selected clinical courses, seminars, externships and directed research projects, as well electives and short courses from the general curriculum. FacultyThe program is directed by a interdisciplinary group of law faculty with a wide range of teaching and research interests related to social justice. Student Advisory BoardThe program also has a Student Advisory Board that includes representative of various student organizations interested in Social Justice activities. |
