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Where to Turn?
National Projects
Among the excellent national law-related education projects are:
- The Center for Civic Education
(www.civiced.org) for a very wide ranging program with many opportunities for lawyers and
judges to volunteer at every grade level, as well as dozens of sample lessons;
- Constitutional Rights Foundation
(www.crf-usa.org) to learn about lawyer in the classroom programs and select from a wide
range of lessons you can use);
- The Constitutional Rights
Foundation-Chicago (www.crfc.org) for information on volunteering in elementary
schools, lessons on juries, materials in Spanish, and more;
- Street Law (www.streetlaw.org)
for information about programs in schools and the community, mock trials, and more; and
- Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity
(www.padsites.org) for programs that encourage lawyers, judges, and law students to
volunteer in a wide range of activities
State Projects
For a listing of state (and national) projects: http://www.abanet.org/publiced/lre/main.html
For a listing of LRE activities by state (teacher training, lawyer in the classroom,
mediation) and LRE products (mock trials, lessons, and newsletters) by state: http://www.abanet.org/publiced/lre/programs.html
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