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Program Highlights
- High School Mock Trial Tournament
- We the People: Project Citizen
- We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution
- Summer Institutes for K-12 Teachers
- Statewide Conference on Law-related and Civic Education
- Community Service Awards for High School Students
- Distinguished Service Award for Outstanding Attorney in LRE
- Emil Zullo Award for Outstanding Educator in LRE
- Mini-Grants/Scholarships for Educators
- Public Education and the Law Seminar
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Product Highlights
- Law Studies is the Law, Youth, and Citizenship's
twice yearly periodical. Each issue will tackle a different issue relating
to law-related and civic education. The issue always contains two articles written by an expert in the field of study and an attorney who works in the particular field of that issue. The periodical will also include lesson plans for K-12 teachers as well as other information related to the topic of that issue as well as upcoming opportunities offered by the LYC program.
- The Rights of Children All Over the World—Teacher's Edition
Prepared by students of Northport High School. Story with full color pictures. Sheet music for "Rights of Children."
- The Rights of Children All Over the World—Student Edition
Paula Bienia, Northport—Northport East School District
Activities for kids
- Living Together Under the Law: An Elementary Education Law Guide (Revised,
2003 Edition)
Revised by Deborah Shayo and George Gregory, original authors Arlene F. Gallagher, and Editor, John Klossner and Mary Ann Sicotti, Illustrators
Law-Related/Citizenship Education Curriculum and Activities for grades K-6.
- Teaching Strategies for US Supreme Court Decisions: Teaching Strategies, Thematic Essays, and Document Based Questions, 2001
James DeRosa, Thomas O'Donnell and Santo Scarpinito
- US Supreme Court Decisions: A Case Study Review for US History and Government—A Student and Teacher Guide (1998)
A Publication of Project P.A.T.C.H. of the Northport—East Northport U.F.S.D. and the Law, Youth & Citizenship Program of the New York State Bar Association
- The Noblest Institution: Teaching About the Right to Trial by Jury in New York (1996)
Text by Patricia Y. Reyhan, Teaching Strategies by Emil Zullo
- An Empire of Reason (2001)
One-hour docudrama depicting New York's role in ratifying the US Constitution
- Stories Old and New: International Human Rights Law: Teaching Its Historical Development, Current Content, and Future Significance (2000)
Patricia Youngblood Reyhan, Professor of Law, Albany Law School of Union University
Designed to assist teachers of Global History and Geography, and to a lesser extent US History and Government, to address the vital issues of human rights that appear in the State Standards and Core Curriculum documents. The contrasting attitudes and assumptions held by most Americans concerning "rights," with the different and broader conceptions held by most non-Americans are woven throughout the book.
- Stories Old and New. International Human Rights Law: Teaching its Historical Development, Current Content, and Future Significance—Teacher's Guide
This teacher's guide is to accompany the original Stories Old and New or
to use on its own. The guide has six units dealing with human rights throughout history. In each unit there are suggested activities and assessments, which include document based and thematic essay questions. If a document-based question is suggested the documents and scaffolding questions are included. The guide also includes a resources section that includes the full texts of many of the human rights documents throughout time, such as Hammurabi's Code of Law, the Magna Carta, the Universal Delectation of Human Rights, and the Bill of Rights. Stories Old and New is available for purchase through the LYC Program.
- Rights and Responsibilities of Young People in New York
provides accurate and authoritative information about the rights and responsibilities of young people in New York State. It is geared primarily to "non-lawyers."
The rule of law is explained in clear understandable language.
- The Courts of New York (2001)
A guide to court procedures with a glossary of legal terms.
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