Law Clinics
Our award-winning Clinical Law Program develops practice-ready skills while offering important legal assistance to those in need. Under law faculty supervision, students annually provide more than 40,000 hours of free legal aid through our 9 law clinics.
Center for Law and Public Service
The Center for Law and Public Service offers a wide variety of externships in nonprofit, government, and judicial settings, locally and around the country, to help students with valuable career-building experience while serving the community. The Center also engages students in public interest law by fostering a dialogue about current legal services and policy issues, and by encouraging students to become leaders who seek creative solutions toward achieving equal access to justice in society.
Public Interest Advocates
The PIA is a student organization that exists to sponsor summer fellowships and other opportunities for WVU law students in the public interest field and to promote interest in public interest lawyering. It works closely with the West Virginia Fund for Law in the Public Interest.
West Virginia Law Institute
Founded in 1988, the West Virginia Law Institute has endeavored to fulfill its legislative mandate to promote and encourage the clarification and simplification of the law of West Virginia. A state organization whose members consist of leading lawyers, judges, and legal scholars, the Institute’s work has constituted initiatives in reforms of major pieces of legislation such as the Intestate Succession Project, the Tax Delinquent Property Project, the Uniform Adoption Act, and the Business Corporations Act and the Nonprofit Corporations Act.
Access to Justice Commission
The Access to Justice Commission seeks to identify, study, and promote measures that will increase the ability of the poor and others facing substantial financial, educational and/or geographic hurdles to gain access to quality legal services. To this end, the WVU College of Law employs its resources to both support and complement the work currently being done by established legal services.
Center for Consumer Law and Education
The mission of the
Center for Consumer Law and Education is to serve as a principal consumer,
law, policy, education and support resource in West Virginia and nationally. A
partnership between WVU Law and Marshall University, it is the only center of its
kind on the East Coast and the only one that is a collaboration between two universities.
