Serve the Community

Lipscomb University’s Institute for Law, Justice & Society seeks to serve the community by providing timely and thoughtful dialogue on contemporary and legal issues. This dialogue is targeted to a number of different constituencies.

LJS Lecture Series

Four times a year, the Institute for Law, Justice & Society hosts various renowned legal speakers for a candid conversation about relevant socio-legal issues. The LJS Lecture Series provides an opportunity for judges, attorneys, mayors, legislators, lobbyists, sheriffs, and police officers to convene and to discuss the issue at hand.

Project Welcome Citizen

One in every seven Nashvillians is born in a foreign land. As a result, Middle Tennessee is experiencing record growth in its immigrant population. The Institute for Law, Justice & Society seeks to assist the immigrant population by giving them with the tools necessary to succeed. Project Welcome Citizen provides education on local laws and governmental processes. By supplying the immigrant population with this relevant information, these individuals can more quickly acclimate to Nashville.

Senior Symposium

Hosted each spring by seniors in the undergraduate LJS program, leaders from all three branches of federal and state government and non-profit community are invited to campus to hear the latest research on a wide variety of socio-legal issues. The undergraduate students share their findings and recommendations from a four-year research project, culminating in this presentation. Students participate in this project with the hope of helping advance particular causes of individual concern.