The University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law currently has an inactive student chapter of the National Lawyers Guild. In order to re-activate the chapter, students must gather at least 100 signatures and present before the Student Bar Association. By signing this petition, you, a student at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, support the reactivation of the student chapter of the National Lawyers Guild.

University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law National Lawyers Guild Mission Statement:

The mission of the University of Maryland Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild is to unify like-minded students who regard economic and social justice as essential elements of the freedoms, protections, and rights of all individuals. Our members seek to promote progressive change in the structure of our political, social, and economic systems. We will facilitate the education of UMB students and Baltimore community members with regard to issues concerning the maintenance and protection of civil rights and liberties, the safeguarding of human rights, the elimination of the oppression of women, indigent individuals, and people of color, the elimination of racism, and the extension of rights to laborers and farmers. Furthermore, we will provide opportunities for students to build meaningful relationships with attorneys, judges, and other members of the legal profession while gaining valuable and substantive legal experience.

About the National Lawyers Guild (NLG):

The NLG is dedicated to the need for basic change in the structure of our political and economic system. We seek to unite the lawyers, law students, legal workers and jailhouse lawyers to function as an effective force in the service of the people, to the end that human rights shall be regarded as more sacred than property interests.

Our aim is to bring together all those who recognize the importance of safeguarding and extending the rights of workers, women, farmers, people with disabilities and people of color, upon whom the welfare of the entire nation depends; who seek actively to eliminate racism; who work to maintain and protect our civil rights and liberties in the face of persistent attacks upon them; and who look upon the law as an instrument for the protection of the people, rather than for their repression.

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