The Emory Law Council on Belonging spearheads the community work of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging at the law school.
Emory Institutional Statement on Diversity
The Emory community is open to all who have a commitment to the highest ideals of intellectual engagement, critical inquiry, and integrity. We welcome a diversity of gender identities, sexual orientations, abilities, and disabilities, as well as racial, ethnic, cultural, socioeconomic, religious, national, and international backgrounds, believing that the academic and social energy that results from such diversity is essential to advancing knowledge, addressing society’s most pressing issues, and attending to the full spectrum of human needs in service to the common good.
Council Members
Our Mission
Our mission is outlined within the Emory Law mission statement: To 1) build and maintain a community based on integrity, mutual respect, and professionalism, and promote a culture of antiracism, diversity, equity, and inclusion for students, faculty, staff, and alumni and 2) Collaborate with other disciplines within the university, alumni, the legal profession, the city of Atlanta, and the wider world to advance the rule of law and the resulting benefits of accountability, individual rights, social justice, thriving markets, economic development, and environmental resiliency.
Affinity Groups
- Asian Pacific American Law Student Association (APALSA)
- Association of International Law Students
- Black Law Students Association (BLSA)
- Chinese American Law Students Assocation (CALSA)
- Christian Law Students Association
- Disabled Law Students Association (DLSA)
- Georgia Association for Women Lawyers (GAWL)
- Jewish Law Students Association (JLSA)
- Korean Law Students Association (KLSA)
- Latin American Law Students Association (LALSA)
- Middle Eastern Law Students Association (MELSA)
- Muslim Law Students Association
- OUTLaw
- Sober Law Students Association (SLSA)
- South Asian Law Student Association (SALSA)
Open Expression
Open Expression Observers are charged by the vice president and dean for Campus Life to:
- Protect the rights of the community members to express their opinions in non-disruptive ways
- Serve as resources to community members regarding the policy and policy violations
- Act as liaisons between community members and Emory Police and/or university administrators
- Protect the right of community members to pursue their day-to-day activities
- Provide information on how to avoid violating the Policy.
Read the Respect for Open Expression Policy »
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Incremental Change
Read to discover some ways in which diversity, equity, and inclusion have been realized within the Emory Law community through the years. There are many more stories to tell. Help us tell them. Email us at law-belonging@emory.edu.
- The19th Amendment and Eléonore Raoul's role in the struggle.
- 100 years of women
- Emory’s American Inn of Court renamed in honor of Judge Clarence Cooper 67L
- 'I’m going to be one of many': First Asian-American woman elected president of Atlanta Bar Association
- Justice at Emory Law: US Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor visits the Emory Law community.