OBJECTIVE 6.1: Build a culture of public service and civic engagement and ensure that all students
might receive the knowledge, skills, and experiences necessary to become attorneys
committed to advancing justice and the public good. Build an inclusive culture of
support for public service and engagement among students, faculty, staff, and alumni.
STRATEGIES
Increase curricular and extra-curricular service-learning opportunities that teach
students how the law operates in real-world settings — including court observations;
clinics, centers and public service externships — increase engagement with external
institutions, with UBalt centers and promote student and faculty participation in
pro bono activities.
Make public service career opportunities more accessible, equitable, and attractive
by expanding paid pipelines, scholarships, and fellowships with government and nonprofit
agencies, and exploring funding to mitigate the debt burden on students.
Highlight our institutional, faculty, staff, and alumni successes in the advancement
of justice and the public good.
OBJECTIVE 6.2: Strengthen, build and sustain meaningful and collaborative community partnerships
with external communities at the local, national, and global levels, by fostering
a spirit of mutual collaboration and reciprocal learning and amplifying the shared
impact of the law school and its community partners.
STRATEGIES
Expand collaboration with community partners, clinics, and others, for example, by
supporting community-focused law reform projects, pro bono activities, and community
education projects.
Elevate the voices of impacted community members through these partnerships and provide
more opportunities for students, staff, alumni, faculty, and the public to engage
with and learn from impacted community members.
OBJECTIVE 6.3: Promote discourse and law reform on issues of public importance and contribute to
the public good by advocating for meaningful law and policy reform. Create pathways
for students to participate in social change movements both within and beyond traditional
legal practice.
STRATEGIES
Support and publicize faculty, staff, alumni, and student contributions to public
discourse on critical social and legal issues in traditional legal scholarship, opinion
pieces, policy reports, amicus briefs, pro bono work, law and policy reform efforts,
empirical research, and collaborations with government and nonprofit organizations.
Host public forums and symposia that engage scholars, policymakers, community leaders,
and impacted community members to share research, foster discussion, and generate
solutions to pressing problems.
Facilitate student engagement in real-world discourse through legislative and regulatory
advocacy, and law and policy reform work through externships, clinics, other coursework,
engagement with the centers, and in other settings, and emphasize the connections
to meaningful career paths.
Lawyers should not only uphold the law as it exists today; they should also imagine
a more just society and work to make it a reality.
Faculty, students, staff, and alumni of the University of Baltimore School of
Law work to advance justice and the public good in many ways. They learn the nature
and requirements of justice and serve the needs of individuals, organizations, and
society at large through the work of clinics and centers, externship opportunities,
law and policy reform, service learning, public service careers, pro bono work and
engaged scholarship.
UBalt Law seeks to increase its support of these and similar efforts as part of its
commitment to strengthen the rule of law and nurture the ideal of justice.
