Law students will deliver a practical, engaging lesson tailored to senior high school students at Eastside Early College High School. Volunteers will spend one or two periods of a Street Law practicum teaching legal concepts and interacting with students. The topic for the first session on March 31 will focus on landlord/tenant rights. The topic for the second session on March 31 will focus on education law.
Organization
Pipeline to Law School Program
The Pipeline to Law School Program at Texas Law works to bring law student volunteers into local AISD schools throughout the year to teach practical, participatory lessons about issues that are important and applicable to today’s youth in areas of law and democracy.
Project Details
- Project Date
Thursday, March 31
- Project Time
- 8:45am-10:50am and/or 10:50am—12:50pm
- Approximate hours of work requested
- 3.5 hours
- Training
- Wednesday, March 30, 6pm-7pm (TNH 2.138) (dinner provided)
- Skills used
- Legal analysis; issue spotting; client communication and problem-solving; public speaking and mediation
- Project location
- Akins High School, 10701 S. 1st Street (20-25 mins from law school)
- Address
- 727 E. Dean Keeton Street, Austin, TX 78705
- Number of student volunteers requested
- 8
- Class year preference
- 1L, 2L, 3L, LLM
- Required skills
- Students with teaching experience are encouraged to apply but teaching experience is not required
- To Apply
- Register at https://pipeline3-31-22.eventbrite.com ; students also must register at https://austinpartners.org/volunteer/ as part of the UT Pipeline Program in order to be admitted to the Akins campus