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			AUXILIARY LAW PROGRAMS
			Enhancing your law school experience
			National Center for Justice and the Rule of Law
			The National Center for Justice and the Rule of Law is a part of The University of Mississippi School of Law. It focuses on issues relating to the criminal justice system and receives funding from the Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs. Its purpose is to promote the two concepts that make up the title of the center. The concept of “justice” appeals to basic notions of equality, equity, and fairness. It often has an emotional component: The result was simply not fair. In contrast, the phrase “the rule of law” refers to the requirement that certain procedures and principles be followed in each case to reach a correct result. Neither concept is sufficient; both must be utilized to ensure that the criminal justice system fulfills its function in society. The center implements its mission through projects, conferences, educational programs, and publications that examine important criminal law and procedure issues.
			National Programs Initiative
			Helps state governments investigate sophisticated criminal activity through training and model programs designed to attack computer-related crime.
			Fourth Amendment Initiative
			Promotes awareness of search and seizure principles through conferences, training, and support for selected publications.
			Prosecutorial Externship Program
			Provides specialized course work and real-world training for law students in the duties and responsibilities of prosecutors.
			Criminal Appeals Clinic
			Provides law students with intensive training representing on appeal persons convicted of crimes.
			Special Projects
			Provides support for selected special projects that promote the concepts of justice and the rule of law.
			National Remote Sensing and Space Law Center
			The National Remote Sensing and Space Law Center at The University of Mississippi School of Law was established in 2000. It is a reliable source for creating, gathering, and disseminating objective and timely remote sensing, space, and aviation research and materials. The center serves the public good and the remote sensing and space industry by addressing and conducting education and outreach activities related to the legal aspects of applying remote sensing, geospatial, and space technologies to human activities. The legal and technical definitions of “remote sensing” vary. For the center, remote sensing includes satellite, airborne, and ground-based observation and imaging of the Earth’s surface, subsurfaces, oceans, atmosphere, and the activities that occur within them and on them. Space, remote sensing, and aviation subjects that the center addresses include data policies, intellectual property, privacy, liability, international law, use of imagery as legal evidence, environmental issues, and licensing.
			Activities and Research
			The center regularly engages in a variety of activities in the fields of remote sensing and geospatial technology law as well as domestic and international space and aviation law. The center’s most prominent event is a two-day conference held every other year on the state of remote sensing law. Held on UM’s Oxford campus, the conference brings together the field’s domestic and international leaders. The center also hosts a variety of other industry, government, and academic speakers throughout the year. It conducts research on an ongoing basis and hosts visiting domestic and international scholars. The center works closely with other international educational institutions and industry organizations. It makes itself available as a resource and answers inquiries regarding remote sensing, space, and aviation law from the government, academia, and the media. The center also acts in an advisory capacity, with personnel serving on governmental and private advisory committees and subcommittees.
			Mississippi Law Research Institute
			The School of Law is home to the Mississippi Law Research Institute, the state’s official law revision, research, and reform agency. The organization promotes orderly modernization and simplification of the state’s laws and more complete use of its law resources. MLRI also embraces the National Sea Grant Law Center, which provides legal research to universities and government agencies. The Sea Grant Law Center conducts research on marine laws and policies, coordinates ocean and coastal law researchers, and disseminates information to coastal and ocean policy makers. The center is administered in conjunction with the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Legal Program, which has served the law and policy needs of the two states and Gulf of Mexico region for more than 30 years. Law students selected on a competitive basis research questions received by the Sea Grant Law Center from federal and state agencies and publish articles in the center’s two quarterly legal reporters. More information is available on the center’s Web site at www.olemiss.edu/orgs/SGLC, or students can visit the center in Kinard Hall on campus.
			Mississippi Judicial College
			The Mississippi Judicial College provides court education for Mississippi’s judicial system. Created in 1970 by judge, legislator, and law professor Noah S. Sweat, Jr., MJC was the first full-time state judicial education program in the nation. Through the support of the Mississippi Supreme Court and the National Judicial College, the organization has become a model for judicial education at all levels. More than 15 countries have dispatched representatives to MJC to gain knowledge of our local, state, and federal judicial systems and to secure a foundation for the establishment of judicial systems in new democracies around the world.