Law students will teach classes in local high schools on substantive legal issues, the relationship between law and justice, and how justice can be accomplished or improved.
Organization
Street Law
Street Law is a student organization at Texas Law. Street Law sends law students into local middle and high schools throughout the school year to teach practical, participatory lessons about legal issues important to today’s youth, including law, democracy, and human rights. Street Law is operating the High School Project in partnership with the Richard and Ginni Mithoff Pro Bono Program.
Project Details
- Project Start Date
September 2019; students must commit to working with the project in both the Fall 2019 and Spring 2020 semesters
- Approximate hours of work requested
- 25 (10 in the fall semester, 15 in the spring semester)
- Training
- Tuesday, September 24, 12pm-1pm (TNH 2.124)
- Skills used
- Legal analysis; public speaking and clear communication of laws
- Project location
- One or more high schools in the Austin area
- Number of student volunteers requested
- 25
- Class year preference
- 1L, 2L, 3L, LLM
- To Apply
- Register at https://streetlawf19.eventbrite.com