• Active Student Organizations
• Inactive Student Organizations
• Registering Active Student Organizations
• Reactivating Existing Student Organizations
• Fundraising Options
  • Food Policy
  • Fundraising Options
  • Journal Fundraising Policy
  • Funding Policies and Procedures
• Organizing an Event
• Food & Alcohol for Meetings
• Marketing & Web Support

The LSA Board, in determining how to allocate student funds, will use the following guidelines for student events:

Workshops & General Meetings

Workshops are conducted by students for the benefit of other students or by non-students to teach a specific skill. Workshops also include “practice sessions” such as networking practice, interview practice, etc. Workshops do not include mandatory training sessions for activities. 

General meetings are introductory and serve a recruitment purpose. General meetings must be open to the entire KH population. General meetings do not encompass meetings conducted exclusively for established members of an organization. 

Panels & Speakers

Panels are comprised of professionals in a given area (may include practitioners, judges, professors, etc.) speaking or debating on a subject. Panels entirely composed of students fall into the “workshops” category.

Professor speakers involve a professor presenting legal information to students on new areas of law, research he or she has done, or previous legal experience he or she has had. Events or talks directly related to a specific class are not considered professor speaker events.

External speakers involve a legal or other professional speaking at King Hall on a subject related to the legal field. Recruitment events for a company, agency, or other employment opportunity are not considered external speakers, however speaking about professional advancement does qualify. 

Cultural Celebrations, Mixers, and Class Parties

Cultural celebrations seek to showcase specific aspects of a culture, religion, or region from which the activity derives. Events of this nature must be open to the entire KH student body. These events encourage diversity at King Hall. Banquets are not part of this category. 

Mixers are gatherings where students are able to converse with practitioners and alumni. They must be professional in nature. They may be held off-campus in certain circumstances, but must be accessible to all King Hall students.

Class Parties are non-academic celebrations related to the study of the law or experience of being a law student.

Banquets

Banquets may receive a maximum of $500. Banquets celebrate the achievements of King Hall students and bring students together with a particular segment of the professional legal community. This segment may be related to cultural identity, shared experience, or other non-academic affiliation. It is not based on a shared interested in a practice area. Banquets are attended by students, faculty and staff, and practitioners. While banquets are an opportunity for students to network, their primary focus is a scheduled program that enhances the bonds between students and their legal community. These programs are at the group's discretion but must add qualitatively to the students' experience as law students and members of their legal community. Examples of qualitative programming are speeches, addresses, or the presentations of awards; however, qualitative programming is not necessarily limited to those examples. In order to receive banquet funding from LSA, requesting groups must demonstrate that the production of their banquet will cost $500 or more and the event must be open and reasonably accessible to all King Hall students.

Funding Policy for Culture Weeks

LSA funding for student organization Culture Weeks will be capped at $1000 per Culture Week, $500/day max and no more than $400 can be spent on food on any one day. (This should not be interpreted as a guarantee that the LSA will fund $1000 for every Culture Week; the cap merely represents a maximum amount.) Student organizations are encouraged to fund additional Culture Week costs through fund-raising efforts.

For Special Events, please refer to the following intranet link: https://intranet.law.ucdavis.edu/community/students/documents/EventContactsandResources.pdf

LSA will not compensate ordinary travel expenses.

***NOTE: The above guidelines in no way restrict the LSA Board's discretion in funding events.***