About the Center for Justice and Law

About the CJL

The center accomplishes its work by drawing on interdisciplinary synergies at Hamline to engage in:

• Active collaboration with community partners in finding solutions to contemporary problems and critical issues. Our current partners include the Minnesota Innocence Project, Minnesota Justice Foundation, Inside-Out Prison Exchange, World Without Genocide, and the Mediation Center.

• Innovative teaching and professional development that draws on a broad array of disciplines to provide high-impact educational experiences and connects students with community partners and pre-professional opportunities, including the Inside-Out Prison Exchange, Hamline J-term and May-term courses, CLE, CEU, and training.

• Transformative research and support of collaborative projects, including community-based, student, applied research, and high-impact research.

• Public symposia that bring together national and local scholars and advocates.

These synergies are rooted in collaborative Hamline academic programs that include:

• Criminal justice and forensic science

• Education

• Legal studies

• Nonprofit management

• Philosophy

• Political science

• Public administration

• Public health sciences

• Social justice and social change

• Urban teaching

Collaborate with the CJL

Co-Sponsoring an event: from making sure your program knows about an event to lending time (faculty! student workers!) to plan or host an event, we're happy to work with other programs on topics and events of common interest. 

We would love as many programs involved with what we do as possible -- if you have funding or time to co-sponsor a talk or panel or field trip, or an idea of something you'd like to see happen that you need us to carry out, please let us know! Contact us at cjl@hamline.edu

Building an event: Have a great idea for an event and need help making it happen? We would be happy to help collaborate and using our resources to build it and spread the word. Contact us at cjl@hamline.edu

Donate to the CJL

Find out more about donating to the CJL. Want to donate to the CJL now? Follow this link to Hamline's giving site, Center for Justice and Law should be in the designation line, and make your gift today.

Additionally, you can go to hamline.edu/giving. Choose The Center for Justice and Law in the designation line.

Want to donate to the Climate Justice Fund? Follow this link to the to Hamline's giving site (the Climate Justice Fund should be in the designation line), and make your gift today.

Thank you!

Advisory Board

Meet the Advisory Board.

Meet the Staff

Meet the CJL Director and Student Coordinators.