University of Maryland School of Law : Catalog, 1988-1989

STUDENT
ACTIVITIES
Student Bar Association
The Student Bar Association, the
official student organization, is affiliated
with the Law Student Division
of the American Bar Association.
Its primary purpose is to
acquaint students with problems of
the profession, to foster professional
ideals and to bring about
closer contact with the organized
bar. The SBA also co-sponsors
community oriented programs, lectures
by members of the bench and
bar on legal and professional problems,
conducts social functions and
supports a variety of student organizations.
Maryland Law Review
The Maryland Law Review, edited
and operated by students of the
School of Law, appears quarterly.
The review publishes on a broad
range of topics, ranging from issues
of national scope and interest to issues
of particular interest to Maryland
lawyers. Student writing receives
special emphasis. Selection
for membership is on a competitive
basis.
Students may participate on
the review for up to four semesters,
first as a staff member and then as
either an assistant editor or a
member of the Editorial Board.
Upon recommendation by the review's
faculty advisor, students may
receive credit (graded pass/fail) as
follows: members and assistant
editors, one credit per semester;
managing, research and executive
editors, three credits per semester;
editor-in-chief, four credits per semester;
and all other named
editors, two credits per semester.
Selection to the Maryland Law
Review is an honor and an opportunity
for training of high value.
Maryland Law Forum
The Maryland Law Forum, a contemporary
legal journal published
by students at the School of Law,
focuses on current social and legal
issues in a scholarly, yet readable,
way. Upon the recommendation of
the faculty advisor to the Maryland
Law Forum, four staff members of
the Law Forum may receive one
credit per semester (graded on a
pass/fail basis), but the maximum
number of credits such students
can earn is six. The editor-inchief,
the managing editor and two
associate editors of the forum may
receive two credits per semester, up
to a maximum of six. No credit is
"Immerse yourself for all your
hours in the law. Eat law, talk
law, think law, drink law, babble
of law and judgments in
your sleep. Pickle yourself in
law—it is your only hope.
And to do this you need more
than your classes and your
casebooks, and yourselves.
You need your fellows."
K.N. Llewellyn,
The Bramble Bush
"There is no difficulty in
cultivating even a passion for
this study; and though a lawyer
should be, in some degree,
acquainted with the whole circle
of human science, so that
he may be as occasion may
require, a philosopher to detect,
a logician to reason, a
poet to describe, and an orator
to persuade, yet believe
me, that excellence in a single
scientific profession, is all that
our reasonable expectations
should embrace."
David Hoffman, founder and
first professor. University of
Maryland School of Law, from
A Course of Legal Study,
1836.