Faculty and administrators at the University of Nebraska College of Law provide research, influence policy and address access to justice issues in cooperation with departments and agencies throughout the University and across the state. Below you will find information about these collaborations, and also about programs and initiatives supported by the College of Law.
Rural Law Opportunities Program
The Rural Law Opportunities Program (RLOP) aims to ensure all Nebraskans have access to legal representation by encouraging the practice of law in the state’s rural communities. RLOPs are available at Chadron State College, the University of Nebraska at Kearney, Peru State College, and Wayne State College.
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Underserved Law Opportunities Program
The Underserved Law Opportunities Program (ULOP) aims to provide the opportunity for a legal education for students in underserved communities, and to encourage students to provide legal services to those communities. Through the program, students will study at the University of Nebraska Omaha, obtain their legal education at Nebraska Law and then practice in areas traditionally underserved by the legal community.
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Law + Business Initiative
The Law + Business program is built on our recognition that our graduates will pursue these different paths and our desire to develop lawyers with the skills that will allow them to succeed in doing so. In addition to the traditional range of business law classes, we offer business-related programs of concentrated study, business-related programming for students who will use their law-school training to pursue careers in business, and fellowships and capstone opportunities that give students the opportunity to apply and improve their Law + Business knowledge before graduation.
Rural Reconciliation Project
The Rural Reconciliation Project is an interdisciplinary research and engagement initiative hosted at the University of Nebraska College of Law. The Project is working to advance more robust and clear-eyed conversations about the past, present, and future of rural America, with the primary goal to make the table bigger and the engagement—especially around law and policy’s unique relationship to rural people and places—more rigorous.
Interdisciplinary Work at the University of Nebraska
Center on Children, Families and the Law
The Center on Children, Families, and the Law was established in 1987 as a home for interdisciplinary research, teaching, and public service on issues related to child and family policy and services.
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Center for Entrepreneurship
The Nebraska Center for Entrepreneurship inspires and enables students to start, improve, and grow new businesses by: encouraging business ownership as a career path; exploring opportunities for new businesses; enabling the understanding, acceptance and execution of the responsibilities of business ownership; facilitating mentor relationships with small business owners; and by connecting business plans with financial and other resources.
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Center for Great Plains Studies
The Center for Great Plains Studies is a regional research and teaching program at the University of Nebraska. The mission of the Center is to foster the study the people, cultures, and natural environment of the Great Plains. The Center operates the Great Plains Art Museum, the Plains Humanities Alliance, undergraduate and graduate programs, various scholarly projects, and outreach programs.
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Clayton K. Yeutter Institute of International Trade and Finance
The Clayton K. Yeutter Institute of International Trade and Finance builds on strengths present across the university, to expand the international component of its teaching and research programs. Three endowed chairs, which will be the foundation of the institute: the Duane Acklie Chair in the College of Business Administration, the Michael Yanney Chair in the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, and the Clayton Yeutter Chair in the College of Law.
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Forsythe Family Program on Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs
The Forsythe Family Program on Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs fosters students' curiosity about human rights and their passion for social justice by offering challenging courses, by encouraging students to engage in hands-on human rights work, and by engaging in cutting-edge, interdisciplinary human rights research.
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National Strategic Research Institute
The National Strategic Research Institute at the University of Nebraska is one of 13 University Affiliated Research Centers (UARCs) in the nation. The NSRI provides mission-essential research and development capabilities for United States Strategic Command as well as other Department of Defense components and federal agencies focused on combating weapons of mass destruction.
Nebraska Extension
Nebraska Extension and the UNL Engagement Collaborative promote the engagement in community, industry, and global partnerships that is crucial to the land grant mission of the university.
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Public Policy Center
The University of Nebraska Public Policy Center provides a unique opportunity for policy makers and researchers to work together to address the challenges of local, state, and federal policy. Center researchers combine professional expertise with rigorous academic methods and stakeholder involvement. The Center brings commitment to collaborations as well as timely processes and outcomes.
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Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute
The Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute at the University of Nebraska was created to combine the best of the University’s expertise in water and food to address one of the most urgent challenges of the 21st century with significant political, environmental, social and economic implications: how to achieve greater food security with less pressure on water resources.
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School of Computing
The School of Computing's capstone course and program, Senior Design, provides undergraduate students with experience in multiple programming languages and development platforms. Students select projects for collaboration, including the Advancing Justice Collaboratory.
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U.S. Race and Law Initiative
The U.S. Law and Race Initiative at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is an interdisciplinary project addressing race and racialization in U.S. law and history, dedicated to understanding racialized people’s use of the law to advance personhood, citizenship, rights, and sovereignty throughout American history.
Faculty and Administrative Collaborations Across Nebraska
Access to Justice Commission
American Civil Liberties Union-Nebraska
Confucius Institute
Great Plains Federal Tax Institute
Nebraska Appleseed
Nebraska State Bar Association
U.S. Strategic Command Deterrence and Assurance Academic Alliance