Students at the Cover Workshop 2003

Every year, SALT sponsors three public interest/social justice retreats for students, practitioners, and law professors, each designed to help create and maintain communities of lawyers and scholars committed to lawyering for social justice.

The Retreats provide a time for faculty, students, and practitioners to come together, share ideas, and recommit themselves to working for justice and social change. They offer an excellent opportunity for networking and meeting public-interest minded students from other law schools.

• The oldest of these gatherings, named in honor of Robert Cover, has been meeting at Camp Sargeant in New Hampshire since 1987. Boston University is considering closing the facility.  However, we have located another retreat center in the same general area. 

• A second retreat, honoring Trina Grillo, first met in 1998, and convenes in the West, moving among a consortium of Pacific law schools.

• In 2002, with the assistance of the University of Indiana and the Minnesota Justice Foundation, SALT held the first annual public interest law retreat in the Midwest, honoring the life’s work of Norman Amaker. The University of Indiana hosted this annual retreat at the Bradford Woods Retreat Center, Indiana. We are looking to relocate the Amaker Retreat to the Twin Cities region, where there are four law schools, and interest in coordinating such a program.  

Each of these Retreats is organized by law school students. For information about registering for one of these retreats, contact SALT board member Robert Lancaster.