The UAF Pre-Law Club, founded by UAF students in 2023, is a student led organization advised by the Pre-Law advisor in the Political Science Department. The Club meets regularly and engages in a variety of activities aimed at supporting students interested in learning about careers in law and/or preparing for law school. In its first year, the Club hosted guest speakers including numerous legal practitioners as well as court magistrates who discussed their legal advocacy and career path in law, in addition to the process by which they applied to and completed law school.

The Club meetings sometimes focused on preparing students to write their law school application essays and collaborating to solve logic puzzles from sample questions from the LSAT (the test required for admission to law school). And Club members had fun with law doing online games during meetings to evaluate the legal claims of online “clients” who presented the facts of their constitutional claims to the group. After a very successful first year of activities, the Pre-Law Club finished the academic year with a movie night watching a classic law school film, complete with pizza, popcorn, and a Q&A with two attorneys after the film to discuss what about the film was accurate and what was simply movie drama.

The Pre-Law Club invites any and all undergraduates and graduates interested in law to join its email list to get notices about upcoming meetings and events. Please click the link to the right to be added to the Pre-Law Club email list or email Pre-Law Advisor Attorney Carol Gray at cjgray5@alaska.edu with any questions.