Law students will help develop lesson plans for the Street Law project at Martin Middle School. Each lesson plan will be for a 30-minute presentation on an area of law that is relevant to middle school students. Past presentations have focused on topics including police interactions, privacy in schools, immigration law, and cyberbullying. The presentations will be given by the weekly Street Law volunteers.
Organization
Street Law
Street Law is a student organization at Texas Law. Street Law sends law students into local AISD 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 Martin project in partnership with the Richard and Ginni Mithoff Pro Bono Program’s Educational Equity Project.
Project Details
- Project Start Date
February 2017
- Approximate hours of work requested
- 8 hours per lesson plan; students may volunteer to develop one or more lesson plans
- Training
- None; sample lesson plans will be provided
- Skills used
- Legal analysis; issue spotting; public speaking and clear communication of laws
- Project location
- Law School
- Number of student volunteers requested
- 2
- Class year preference
- 1L, 2L, 3L, LLM
- To Apply
- Submit email stating interest to ssedgwick@law.utexas.edu