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Teachers' Law School

Teachers' Law School provides crash course in legal studies
 

The ABOTA Foundation is proud to present the Teachers’ Law School. Our Teachers’ Law School program, designed for middle school and high school government, social studies, history, law and civics educators, exposes participants to presentations, roundtables and workshops on topics aimed at giving teachers the tools to help their students better understand and appreciate the value of the American civil and criminal legal systems and the role those systems play in students’ lives and society.

Statistics have shown that more than half of high school graduates in America don’t know the three branches of government. Through ABOTA’s Teachers’ Law School, some of the best and brightest members of the bench and bar, who live and work with the law day in and day out, share practical realities of the civil and criminal law procedures and systems that protect students, their parents, their teachers, and all Americans.

The program is entering its fourth year in Austin, Texas, and has expanded to Denver, Colo., which held three programs in 2011. Sacramento, Calif., hosted its first Teachers Law School in August 2011.

The teachers were able to work with “master” trial lawyers and scholars from the state and federal judiciary.

Typical topics include:

  • How technology has changed the law and the way we live
  • Developments in forensic evidence
  • Justice in America: A view from city hall
  • Trial by jury: The history, the constitution and the current state
  • Probable cause, search and seizure and the 4th Amendment
  • Constitutional challenges for the modern classroom

2013 Programs:

  • Orlando, FL -  January 17-18
  • Austin, TX - July 18-20
  • Denver, CO - TBD

2012 Programs:

  • Austin, TX - July 12-14
  • Arkansas - July 27
  • Jacksonville, FL - October 9
  • Denver, CO - October 9-10
  • Philadelphia, PA - October 27
  • Miami, FL  - November 6
If you would like to have an ABOTA member talk with your classes this fall, please contact Brian Tyson, Executive Director of ABOTA, at briant@abota.org or 214-871-7523.
 


 

 
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Voir Dire

Has the enforcement of arbitration clauses in consumer and employment contracts waged a full scale assualt on the 7th Amendment? This issue of Voir Dire covers mandatory arbitration clauses, impartial juries and social media , plus an insightful look at what our jurrors are really thinking.  

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Ft. Lauderdale MIT

The Fort Lauderdale chapter of ABOTA witll host A Trial Demonstration in a Premises Liability and Wrongful Death Case from Opening Statements to Jury Deliberation held May 10, 2013.  This program will be approved for 8.0 general credit hours and 1.0 hour ethics.

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