CLS National Law Student Convention (Oct. 21-24)

Thank you for being a part of the Christian Legal Society Law Student Ministries Network. We have some exciting news! We are preparing for our largest Law Student Conference ever! The 22nd Annual National Law Student Convention will feature fellowship with hundreds of other law students from around the country, awesome speakers, and excellent workshops. And we are offering special early bird scholarships! So mark your calendar for OCTOBER 21-24, 2010, sign up early, and join us in Orlando!

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Special Early Registration Scholarships Available! Two Great Speakers! Legal Research and Writing Opportunity!

Special Early Registration Scholarships Available!

Make your plans this semester for theCLS National Law Student Convention, October 21-24 in Orlando, Florida! Early Bird Student Scholarship: Double scholarship for those students signing up before June 1-- $200 to every student. Standard Student Scholarship: All students who sign up after June 1 will receive $100; 1Ls will receive $150. Double Dip Membership Discount: Any student who joins CLS for $95, good for a three-year membership (and it will carry over to attorney membership as well), will have that entire amount ($95) credited to his or her conference registration. Affiliation Travel Scholarship : available to any fellowship that is not a CLS Chapter today: If the fellowship 1) affiliates as a CLS chapter before June 15, with 2) all three leaders signing up for membership at the $95/3 years rate; CLS will 1) apply the $95 fee to each student's conference registration; 2) give a $200 scholarship to each student, and 3) pay the students' reasonable travel expenses, up to $300 each. Faculty sponsor scholarships: If any faculty member will not receive assistance from his or her school to attend the conference, CLS will offer any of the above scholarships, including the $95/3 year (full faculty membership for three years) double dip membership discount for any faculty member accompanying students. Be on the lookout for details on how to receive each of these scholarships!

Two Great Speakers!

The program for students promises to be excellent, anchored this year by two outstanding scholars. The first is Michael McConnell, Richard and Frances Mallory Professor of Law and Director of the Stanford Constitutional Law Center. Professor McConnell, who is arguing the CLS v. Martinezcase before the U.S. Supreme Court next month, is a former 10th Circuit Court of Appeals judge and one of the most distinguished constitutional law scholars in the country. He will be providing the "Law & Culture" keynote to the student conference and is the featured speaker at the Saturday night banquet at the larger conference. The second anchor is Dr. Wayne Grudem, Research Professor of Theology and Biblical Studies at Phoenix Seminary. Dr. Grudem has served as President of the Evangelical Theological Society, as a member of the Translation Oversight Committee for the English Standard Version of the Bible, and as the General Editor for the ESV Study Bible (Crossway Bibles, 2008). He came to Phoenix Seminary in 2001 after teaching at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School for 20 years. The best-selling Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine (Zondervan 1994) is just one of his dozens of books. Dr. Grudem will help focus our student sessions in the area of theology and law. His newest work, Politics-- According to the Bible will be released this year by Zondervan. He will deliver the student keynote address: "God's Law & Human Laws: A Biblical Perspective." Additional highlights of this year's conference: *Lawyer Networking with Regional Seating will return this year. *Small Group discussions on the lawyer's calling are planned for breakfasts, where students and lawyers will have a chance to talk together about foundational issues. *Late Night Suite: Always a blast! *Law Student Praise and Worship! Call Dan Kim (703) 642-1070 x 3303 for details!

Legal Research and Writing Opportunity!

Patrick Trueman, an Alliance Defense Fund allied attorney, has requested assistance from law students on an obscenity project. Patrick Trueman is the former chief of the U.S. Department of Justice Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, and he has been recruited by Morality in Media to create a website and a facebook page to increase awareness of the harms caused by pornography. The Pornography Harms website is available athttp://pornharms.com. They are in need of many more volunteers to help review research articles on the harm from pornography for posting on the site. The task is simple, just read a research article and write up a short summary of the work and list the tags from the article. You may volunteer as much or as little time as you have available. The site has had more than 11,500 visitors from 101 countries since we launched it a few weeks ago. If you are interested in helping, please respond to Patrick Trueman - p.trueman@verizon.net or Vicki Tucci - vicki.tucci@gmail.com, and please also cc Hannah Livingston - hannah_charis@yahoo.com