How the Law Protects Freedom Secondary & Adult Note: (S) designates secondary audience; (A) designates adult audience. Books | Booklets/Pamphlets | Videos Books (S) The Association of Trial Lawyers of America. When Justice Is Up to You. Five lessons on the jury system. Free. Contact: Association of Trial Lawyers of America, 1050 31st St., NW, Washington, DC 20007-4499, 202-965-3500. (S & A) Close Up Foundation. The Bill of Rights: A User's Guide. Call 800-765-3131. (S) ERIC Clearinghouse for Social Studies/Social Science Education. Constitutional Rights of Juveniles and Students: Lessons on Sixteen Supreme Court Cases; A High School Student's Bill of Rights; and "Teaching about the Fourth Amendment's Protection Against Unreasonable Searches and Seizures" (ERIC Digest EDO-SO-93-4). Call 800-266-3815. Social Science Education Consortium (SSEC). Individual Rights in International Perspective: Lessons on Canada, Mexico, Japan, and Nigeria. Contact: SSEC, 3300 Mitchell Ln., Suite 240, Boulder, CO 80301-2272, 303/492-8154. (S)Street Law, Inc. (formerly known as National Institute for Citizen Education in the Law - NICEL). Human Rights for All, for teaching about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Call West Publishing at 800-328-9352. Booklets/Pamphlets (S & A) The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has a variety of "briefing papers" suitable for high school and above and "briefers" and "Ask Sybil Liberties" aimed at high school students. Topics include: "A History of the Bill of Rights," "The Death Penalty," and "Your Right to Due Process." Call 800/775-ACLU. (S & A) The New York Civil Liberties Union. "Understanding Civil Liberties: A Guide for the Perplexed." Contact: NYCLU Nassau, 210 Old Country Rd., Mineola, NY 11501, 516/741-8520. Videotapes (S & A) Alliance for Justice. Profiles in Judicial Courage, (24 minutes) on the importance of the independence of the judiciary. Contact: Alliance for Justice/First Monday, 2000 P Street, NW, Suite 712, Washington, DC 20036, 202/822-6070. (S & A) The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Double Justice (19 minutes) about race and the death penalty. Accompanied by written materials and a promotional poster. Item #9909. Call: 800/775-ACLU. (S & A) American Judicature Society. Cornerstone of Democracy: The U.S. Jury System (18 minutes) a broad overview of the jury's role in the American justice system. Includes a guide for presenters and viewers. Contact: American Judicature Society, 180 N. Michigan Ave., #600, Chicago, IL 60601, 312/558-6900, x-147. (S & A) Close Up Foundation. Sentenced to Die: Capital Punishment and the Eighth Amendment (35 minutes) and Students' Right to Privacy: Drug Testing and the Fourth Amendment (28 minutes). Call 800/765-3131. (S) The Oakland Bar Association. Search and Seizure (15 minutes) a dramatization of a search of a student's purse and locker and the resulting court case. A lesson plan and handouts accompany the video. Contact: Oakland Bar Association, 1760 S. Telegraph Rd., Suite 100, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48302-0181, 248/334-3400. (S & A) The State Bar of California. Juries on Trial (21 minutes) examines jury duty through the eyes of citizens, judges, lawyers and legislators. Accompanied by a humorous 2" x 3" black-and-white jury duty awareness poster ("A Jury of My Peers?" picturing a cat defendant with a jury of dogs). Contact: The State Bar of California, Office of Communications, 555 Franklin St., San Francisco, CA 94102-4498, 415/561-8280. (S & A) That Delicate Balance II: Our Bill of Rights is a five-part PBS series debating topics such as balancing society's collective security with the rights of the accused in a murder case. Call 800/344-3337. To order the ABA's That Delicate Balance II: Our Bill of Rights. An Instructor's Guide, [1994, 48 pp. $10.00] call 800/285-2221 and request PC# 497-0052. >>All Grade Levels >>Secondary & Adult Resources Home | Resources: How the Law Protects Freedom Home