How to Join

The Justice Action Center offers students two ways to affiliate with the Center:

• Harlan Affiliates: The Law School invites students in the top fifteen percent of their class to join the John Marshall Harlan Scholars Program. Students in this program are required to affiliate with one of the Law School's academic centers; the Justice Action Center is one of the centers among which they choose. For further information on this umbrella program, and the various academic centers associated with it, please click here.
• JAC Associates: The JAC Associate Program offers students full membership in the Justice Action Center based on a demonstrated commitment to public interest work. Students choosing this route to membership must apply to enroll in the Justice Action Center in the spring of their second year of law school. (Evening students may also enroll in the spring semester of their third year of law school.) The next application period will begin in February of 2009. Please watch the JAC homepage (www.nyls.edu/jac) and your student email account Inbox for more information.

Students in their first year of study are welcome at all of JAC's public events. Because of the rigors of the first-year curriculum, however, students are not eligible for formal membership until the completion of their first-year coursework.