Non-Discrimination Policy

Lewis and Clark Law School provides career development services to all students and graduates, on an equal opportunity basis.  We do not knowingly furnish recruitment assistance, or facilities for interviewing,  to persons, firms, agencies, or organizations that discriminate in their selection of candidates for employment on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, handicap or disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital, parental, or veteran status, or the prejudice of clients.   A limited exception to this policy exists for military recruiters and federal agencies but only insofar as their employment and hiring practices are permitted under federal law.

Lewis and Clark Law School notifies employers of our non-discrimination policy and informs them that a request to use any of our services  is their acknowledgment that they agree to adhere to our non-discrimination policy.  Lewis and Clark Law School expects that all employers will consider, in good faith, each applicant on the basis of his or her individual merits.

The United States military historically has discriminated against persons on the basis of their age, gender, and sexual orientation.  Although those policies remain in flux, current federal law authorizes the withdrawal of federal financial support (including certain types of student financial aid) from institutions of higher education that do not allow military recruiters access to campus or to certain student information. 

In response to this threat, and for no other reason, Lewis and Clark Law School concedes an exception to its non-discrimination policy to military recruiters, to be in effect only while federal regulations continue to threaten elimination of financial aid in response to enforcement of non-discrimination.  Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark College abhors in the strongest terms the policy of the Department of Defense and the United States Congress and regrets the need to succumb to their threats.  The Law School supports efforts to change both this law and the military policy discriminating on the basis of age, gender, and sexual orientation.