First GBM

La Alianza’s first general body meeting was a success! 1Ls, 2Ls, and 3Ls met for lunch and discussed what it means to be part of the organization. Together, we reminisced about the previous year and previewed the events the board has planned. The board also announced the available board positions for first-years as 1L Representatives.

The last 30 minutes of the meeting were reserved to platform the Latine Journal of Law & Policy (LJLP) and encourage students to join the team for their 37th volume! LJLP was started in 1981 and uses its legacy to publish scholarship that centers Latine conditions, communities, and identities. The board encouraged anyone interested in this scholarship to join.

At the end of the meeting, La Alianza thanked its 3Ls for all the work that they did in the previous year. Transitions could be difficult, but we are thankful to have had such a remarkable group of law students to pave the way for the current board and first-year students.

Native Land Acknowledgement


We take a moment to recognize that Berkeley sits on the territory of xučyun (Huichin) (Hoo-Choon), the ancestral and unceded land of the Chochenyo (Cho-Chen-yo) speaking Ohlone people, the successors of the historic and sovereign Verona Band of Alameda County. This land was and continues to be of great importance to the Muwekma (Muh-wek-muh) Ohlone Tribe and other familial descendants of the Verona Band.

We recognize that every member of the Berkeley community has benefited, and continues to benefit, from the use and occupation of this land since the institution's founding in 1868. Consistent with our values of community and diversity, we have a responsibility to acknowledge and make visible the university's relationship to Native peoples. By offering this Land Acknowledgement, we affirm Indigenous sovereignty and will work to hold the University of California, Berkeley more accountable to the needs of American Indian and Indigenous peoples.