All students may submit an optional statement regarding the ways in which they would contribute to the diversity of the law school. Some students use these statements to self-identify as LGBTQIA.
Our Admissions professionals strongly encourage applicants to identify themselves as members of the LGBTQ community in their Application, Personal Statement or Diversity Statement, which is an optional statement regarding the ways in which they would contribute to the diversity of the law school. There is also an LSAC question that is part of our application where students can identify as LGBTQ.
We recruit faculty through formal (AALS Faculty Recruitment platform) and informal means. Our goal is to recruit and retain faculty members who are diverse across a range of identities, including LGBTQIA identities.
Our law school does not have an independent benefits policy. Our staff and faculty are employed by our university, and ultimately the State of Maryland, which sets benefits policies. Our benefits policies are available at the following website: https://www.umaryland.edu/hrs/benefits/
Our law school does not have an independent benefits policy. Our staff and faculty are employed by our university, and ultimately the State of Maryland, which sets benefits policies. Our benefits policies are available at the following website: https://www.umaryland.edu/hrs/benefits/
Our law school does not have an independent benefits policy. Our university establishes student insurance policies. The university policies are available at the following website: https://www.umaryland.edu/studenthealth/
Cultural competency training, including training regarding issues unique to LGBTQIA community members, is conducted in a range of ways across our campus for faculty, staff, students, and administrators.
In our law school, students may use any restroom they feel is appropriate for their gender identity. All restrooms are ADA accessible.
There are restrooms on each floor of the law school:
(1) On the first floor, there are two single-stall, all gender restrooms available for all members of our law school community. There are two binary-gendered, multi-stall restrooms on the first floor. And there are binary-gendered restrooms in the annex to our law school building—Westminster Hall.
(2) On the second floor, there is a large, approximately 10-stall, all-gender restroom on the classroom wing of the law school.
(3) On each of the third and fourth floors of the law school, there are two binary-gendered, multi-stall restrooms on the classroom wing.
(4) On each floor in our library, there are two binary-gendered, multi-stall restrooms.
https://www.umaryland.edu/diversity/resources/all-gender-bathrooms/
Each of the following courses includes LGBTQIA content:
(1) Gender Violence Clinic
(2) Gender and the Law
(3) Family Law
(4) Gender Violence Seminar
(5) Constitutional Law II
Each class spends roughly 5-7 hours per semester on these issues, excluding issues that arise spontaneously and not by design.
In addition, LGBTQIA issues are discussed in many other courses, including Professional Responsibility, Contracts, Property, Gender and the Legal Profession Seminar, and other courses.
Each year, we provide funding for OutLaw members to attend the Lavender Law conference.
Yes, optional for all students
Our campus offers a robust cultural competency curriculum that includes courses relating to LGBTQIA and anti-racism concerns.
Our goal is to provide a welcoming, inclusive, and rewarding educational and social experience for our students. We do this in formal and informal ways. In addition to the things mentioned above, we invite students to participate in a wide range of networking and social activities, we provide scholarship funding, we promote their employment through our Office of Career Development, and we work to ensure that students are referred to by their chosen names and pronouns. We encourage any law school applicant to ask us any follow-up questions or to seek more information to ensure that the University of Maryland Carey Law School can meet their academic and extracurricular needs.
The Carey Law School actively seeks to ensure that each class is diverse. We recruit at many national and regional aw school recruiting events. LGBTQ+ candidates exist everywhere, so we are keen to pay attention when interacting with students with those identities. We actively participate in a range of diversity recruiting events in order to encourage vibrant participation by the LGBTQ+ communities.