Leaders from Law Workshop: Running for Public Office

Leaders from Law Workshop: There are still spots available for this event! We've opened the application up to people outside Minnesota Law, but ACS members can still apply! 

Have you ever considered running for public office? UMN Law has the privilege to host an exciting opportunity. The application can be found here and the event is scheduled for the evening of Friday, 10/25 and all day Saturday, 10/26. Please note that the applications are not reviewed by any UMN ACS board member or student. You must be a member of ACS National to apply (this is separate from being a member of the UMN chapter) and must pay a $25 registration fee if selected. Refer to the information and contacts in the application if you have any questions. Here is the official event description:

With the rule of law under threat in the United States, the importance of progressive lawyers running for and holding office has never been more apparent. Yet while many law students arrive at law school interested in a career in politics, too often they leave without knowledge of how lawyers can most effectively run for or gain appointment to an office. The Leaders From Law Run For Office Workshop redresses that gap. The highly interactive workshop will show how to inventory all offices a participant is suited for, build fundraising skills, cover the basics of setting up a campaign, discuss how to win votes, explore the value of skills honed in law school when seeking office, address the challenges of simultaneously building a career in the law and seeking office, and more. Participants will have ample opportunity to raise their specific questions and to build ties with one another. 

There will be light assigned reading circulated before the workshop. Otherwise, there are no prerequisites. A full agenda will be circulated to participants closer to the date of the workshop.

Launched by law professor Heidi Li Feldman in the wake of the 2016 U.S. elections, Leaders from Law is a not-for-profit co-curricular program aimed specifically at law students and young attorneys, training and orienting them to seek and hold office, particularly at the state and local level. Leaders From Law aims to support the relationship between the rule of law, pluralistic constitutional democracy, and American ideals of justice.