The Latin Initiative For Ethics (LIFE), launched during the 2002-2003 school year, is a curricular and extra curricular program that is designed to provide a framework for the ongoing study of contemporary ethics issues.

The program was established after a Latin School junior approached the School's academic dean seeking a way to engage the entire student body in a serious discussion of ethics. While ethics are integrated into the curriculum in many courses at Latin, this student saw a need for his peers to have a broader base from which to examine overarching ethical issues as a community.

With the support of an anonymous donor, this student's idea grew into a comprehensive student-organized initiative of workshops, special presentations, and guest speakers. In its inaugural year LIFE focused on ethics in journalism. The program sponsored a number of visiting media experts and journalists including Newsweek International editor Fareed Zakaria, Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago Tribune reporter and editor Jeff Lyon, Cathy Singer, a producer for NBC's "Dateline," and others.

During the 2003-04 school year the program addressed contemporary bioethics issues, bringing to the school a diverse array of speakers that included Princeton University's Peter Singer, the Humane Society of the United States' Vice President for Animal Reasearch Issues Martin Stephens, and Arizona State University's Donald Johanson, among others.