Networking with Peers
The Pre-law Society (also sometimes known as the Law and Social Issues Group) provides an opportunity for pre-law students to become acquainted and share interests. The Society invites speakers like patent lawyers, law school faculty, judges, public defenders, and law school admissions officers to campus to share their expertise in a legal subject or their career experience as lawyers.
The Society also forms mock trial teams to compete in the American Mock Trial Association's regional tournaments, in which students are given a great opportunity to learn rules of trial procedure and rules of evidence, and engage in public speaking - all as they try to persuade a set of judges to accept their version of events.
Projects in Law & Technology
Our project-based curriculum will equip you with critical thinking and reasoning skills that will make you an outstanding candidate for even the most competitive law school. In your junior year, you will undertake an Interactive Qualifying Project (IQP) in which you investigate, analyze, and implement solutions to a real societal challenge involving law, at home or abroad.
Projects in Law and Technology (IQP Division 52) give students the chance to study the legal and political controversies that arise from the use of technology, the regulation of technology, or the impact of technology (like DNA testing) on legal institutions. Sometimes, pre-law students use the IQP to further some interest in a legal subject, but these projects are not reserved for pre-law students.
Some project ideas originate with students, such as the First Amendment and attempts to regulate Internet content or regulations applicable to dietary supplements, and others originate originated with local sponsors in the Worcester legal community like the Legal Assistance Corporation of Central Mass and the Massachusetts District Court - Worcester Division.