The Nathaniel R. Jones Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice

You can apply to become one of a limited number of outstanding students who serve as Social Justice Fellows. Our Fellows:

• research current social justice issues, 
• enroll in courses that teach legal analysis through the intersecting lenses of race, gender, class and sexuality (including two of the following three courses, with at least one taken as a 2L: Critical Race Theory, Feminist Jurisprudence, Gender and the Law),
• complete externships with local social justice organizations, 
• participate in activities that seek to cultivate social justice scholars, leaders and activists,
• participate in a three-credit research project sponsored by the Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice,
• help with the Center’s annual fall event and attend occasional programs throughout the academic year.

Each Fellow receives:

• tuition assistance in the amount of $3,500 each year ($1,750 per semester) in exchange for work with the Center,

If you’d like to be considered for a Social Justice Fellowship, please submit the online application. 

The first of its kind in the nation, Cincinnati Law’s JD/MA program offers you a rigorous, interdisciplinary study of the law and the chance to earn both degrees over the course of four years. Your capstone experience is a semester-long externship that places you in the heart of social justice work—at a national public interest organization, such as the National Women’s Law Center, Equality Now, National Organization for Women or the Women’s Law Project.

Find out more and apply now.

Join this groundbreaking team which, since 2005, has helped Cincinnati Law students represent more than 1,400 survivors of domestic violence, stalking, sexual assault and human trafficking in civil protection order hearings. Thanks to the work of the Clinic, Cincinnati City Council was the first in the nation to pass a resolution declaring that freedom from domestic violence is a fundamental human right. 

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From 2003 to 2019, the Freedom Center Journal (FCJ)—a joint, scholarly print publication of the Jones Center and the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in downtown Cincinnati—published pieces that explored the legacies of historic struggles for freedom as a context for understanding ongoing forms of subordination and developing strategies for social change. Truly interdisciplinary in nature, the student-edited FCJ published articles, comments, essays, book reviews, poetry, visual art, and other works by legal practitioners, activists, artists, scholars, and the students themselves. The Freedom Center Journal, Volume 2019, Issue 1, is available in the Scholarship and Publications Repository.