Most UC Hastings student applicants list wanting “to make a difference in the world” as their primary motives for attending law school, according to recent student surveys. A new center at UC Hastings will help law students build on that value and find ways to integrate it into their future legal practices.

That new center is the Center for Social Justice, launched this fall by UC Hastings Professors Brittany Glidden and Gail Silverstein.

“We believe a lot of students lose their connection to why they came to law school in the 1L year,” Glidden said. “We want to offer students a vision and opportunity to see how they can incorporate public interest work into their role as a lawyer, wherever they may end up.”

Glidden and Silverstein say the center will help law students choose their own ways of incorporating justice work into their future legal practices. The center will help some students navigate numerous public interest offerings at Hastings and support them in finding positions at nonprofits or government agencies. It will connect other students to pro bono work or other ways to express their social values while working in the corporate sector.

At UC Hastings, students have many opportunities to engage in social justice work – from doing pro bono legal aid work, to interning with non-profit and government agencies, to participating in clinics and externships, or getting involved in social justice-focused law journals and student groups.

The opportunities stretch across...

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