What is SLEC?

The Student Legal Education Committee (SLEC) is the co-branch of the University of Cincinnati Donald P. Klekamp College of Law’s student government, alongside the Student Bar Association (SBA). SLEC provides a mechanism for student participation in policy decisions affecting the College. Members of SLEC are assigned to the following committees: Admissions, Academic Policy, Campus Life and Wellness, Clinics, International and LLM Programs, Professional Identity, Research, Faculty, Development, and Library Technology, and Student Petitions. They may also form Ad Hoc Committees to study and report on problems affecting the student body; currently, this includes the CPD Committee, the Rule 9 Committee, and the AI Committee. 

Together with faculty and administration representatives on these committees, students discuss and vote upon issues, assign tasks, and attempt to arrive at decisions which represent an accommodation of diverse views. SLEC members are elected from and by the student body. Members of SLEC distribute, collect, and analyze the faculty evaluation forms completed at the end of every semester by the students. Vacancies on the committee are filled in the fall semester by 1L students and again by a SLEC-member election of two additional 1L students at the end of the spring semester.

SLEC Anonymous Question Form

Have a question for SLEC? SLEC Answers to Anonymous Questions. Submit questions and concerns using the following form: https://forms.gle/LBSzdVRHq5TTwW2S6

How to join SLEC

Only 1L UC Law students may be elected to SLEC by their cohort vote in their first fall semester. Two additional 1L students are voted in by SLEC members at the end of the 1Ls spring semester.