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Baylor Law Review
The Baylor Law Review is a legal periodical published three times a year by the students of the Law School under the supervision of the faculty. Students are chosen for this prestigious organization based on their law school grades or by submitting a sample brief through the school’s write-on competition. Being on Law Review gives outstanding students an opportunity to develop legal writing ability. It is edited and prepared by the Baylor Law Review editorial staff who are selected on the basis of scholarship and demonstrated legal writing ability. The Law Review furnished valuable supplemental training for exceptional students, and membership on the editorial board is usually considered by prospective employers to be an important factor in the selection of graduates for employment.

The Law Review publishes articles contributed by authorities in a variety of fields and student notes and comments. The Law Review staff is provided offices in the Law School and a library of current materials.

Baylor University Student Bar Association
Every student in the Law School is a member of the Student Bar Association (SBA), which has as its objectives the promotion of cooperation between students and faculty, the encouragement of association of students with members of the bar, and student governance in the Law School. The Student Bar Association is a charter member of the American Law Student Association, sponsored by the American Bar Association. The officers of the Association consist of a president, vice president, and secretary-treasurer. These officers plus the officers of the three classes constitute the Board of Governors. Dues are $2.09 per hour per quarter.

The Association sponsors the annual Christmas party and annual Law Day events, an ambulance chance co-sponsored with the Women's Legal Society, a golf tournament, culminated with a banquet co-sponsored by the Baylor Law School Alumni Association. At least one blood drive is organized by the SBA and is hosted by the Law School each year. The SBA also sponsors events throughout the year for social relief, including bowling nights, evenings at Doc & Laddy’s and movie nights. The Association also assists entering students with the adjustment to the law school environment by providing each student with a "Law Buddy."

Christian Law Fellowship
The Christian Law Fellowship is an organization composed of students and faculty led by a student from the George W. Truett Theological Seminary. The Fellowship strives to analyze and discuss the role of Christian beliefs in the legal profession, discuss the integration of legal practice into the Christian lifestyle, create a supportive network of people with similar beliefs, and provide an opportunity for fellowship among Christians within the Law School community.

Civil Rights Society
The Civil Rights Society is an organization whose purpose is the promotion, discussion, and cultivation of civil and individual liberties among the students and faculty of Baylor University School of Law and Baylor University. The Society offers an alternative voice on campus and seeks to encourage new lawyers and citizens to be advocates of civil rights as well as the underprivileged, oppressed, and poor. This organization sponsors speakers, student debates and forums, establishes community assistance programs, and publishes The Dissent in an effort to provide different viewpoints on a wide range of topics. The goal of this organization is to instill a sense of responsibility and awareness in the young advocates and community leaders who will soon be in a position to affect a positive change in our society.

Harvey M. Richey Moot Court Society
The Harvey M. Richey Moot Court Society conducts bi-annual intramural competitions, one in the fall and one in the spring. The moot court competitions enable interested students to gain experience in appellate advocacy. Participants, working in teams of two, prepare an appellate brief and develop and present oral arguments to panels of judges. Members of the finalist teams are eligible for admission to the Baylor Law School Order of Barristers.

Hemphill Inn Chapter of Phi Delta Phi
Phi Delta Phi, established in 1869, nine years before the American Bar Association, is the oldest professional fraternity in the world. It is the largest legal fraternity in existence, having initiated over 120,000 individuals who continue to serve the legal community in influential positions. More judges, presidents, governors, senators, representatives, ABA presidents and law school deans have come from the ranks of Phi Delta Phi than from any other legal fraternity. Phi Delta Phi is dedicated to providing opportunities to participate in social, as well as professional, activities and functions.

Intellectual Property Law Society
The Intellectual Property Law Society provides a forum for discussion of developing issues in the law regarding intellectual property. The Society hosts guest speakers and presentations on intellectual property law and promotes awareness of intellectual property law as a growing field of legal practice.

International Law Society
The International Law Society cultivates an international awareness among the students and faculty. In addition, the International Law Society helps to promote and coordinate study abroad opportunities for students. The Society also invites guest speakers to come to speak on topics such as international law practice and international job opportunities.

James P. Alexander Senate of Delta Theta Phi
Baylor Law School is the home of the Alexander Senate of Delta Theta Phi Fraternity, an international law fraternity with over 80,000 alumni and active student members throughout the world. For over 20 years, Delta Theta Phi has served the student body by renting books and supplements through its book rental store.

Diversity in Law Association
The Diversity in Law Association exists to serve as a professional organization, support system, and social club for law students. It maintains contact with various national organizations such as the Hispanic National Bar Association, the Black Law Student Association, and the Asian Law Society, but our local group works as a united organization for issues and concerns of minority students. Membership is open to all students.

R.E.B. Baylor Chapter of Phi Alpha Delta
Phi Alpha Delta is a professional organization devoted to serving law students, fostering high standards of professional responsibility and ethics, improving the legal profession, and promoting justice and equality under law for all people. Phi Alpha Delta helps law students in several ways including publications and programs to help survive the first year of law school. Continuing services include contacts with lawyers, professors, judges, and other legal professionals that can lead to outstanding employment opportunities. Continuing legal education through practical programs and leadership development opportunities are also an integral part of P.A.D. membership.

Texas A & M Club
The Baylor School of Law Texas A & M Club is an organization composed of present and former law students who are also former students of Texas A & M University. The club enables Aggies to continue their Aggie traditions once they have moved a little farther north up Highway 6. Activities include social get-togethers, recruiting on the A & M campus, maintaining contacts with Aggie lawyers, judges, and other legal professionals, and law school Muster. In addition, one of the club's primary goals is raising money to endow a scholarship in honor of Aggie and Dean Emeritus Angus S. McSwain, Jr. The scholarship will be awarded to a deserving Aggie at the Law School.

Women's Legal Society
The Women's Legal Society is an organization composed of female and male law students. The organization's primary goals are to foster fellowship among the female students of the law school and to discuss and analyze the unique challenges that women face in the legal profession in order to find a constructive and effective way to meet the conquer those challenges. The organization periodically has speakers who address issues concerning women in the legal profession.

Baylor Law Auxiliary
The Baylor Law Auxiliary acts as "hostess" for the Law School and provides opportunities to meet and get to know the faculty and their spouses. Meetings are designed for fun, support, and information. The Auxiliary sponsors social get-togethers, parties, and speakers, organize fundraisers, and participate in community service projects. Additionally, they treat law students to snacks during finals, and treat graduating wives to "Getting Hubby Through" dinners.

A priority for the Auxiliary is the scholarship awarded annually to a third-year husband of an active member. This recipient is selected by the scholarship committee and awarded at the Law Day Banquet. All spouses and fiancés of Baylor Law Students are encouraged to join.

The Federalist Society
The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies is a group of conservatives and libertarians interested in the current state of the legal order. It is founded on the principles that the state exists to preserve freedom, that the separation of governmental powers is central to our Constitution, and that it is emphatically the province and duty of the judiciary to say what the law is, not what the law should be. In working to achieve these goals, the Society has created a conservative and libertarian intellectual network that extends to all levels of the legal community. The Baylor chapter pursues these goals by creating forums for discussion and sponsoring debates between top scholars on current legal issues.

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