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StreetLaw

StreetLaw is a student organization committed to reaching out to the local community to educate teenagers about their rights and responsibilities as American citizens. The program seeks to accomplish this by going into the local high school and teaching classes on certain legal subjects to the students enrolled in Government classes.

Streetlaw is a national program with its own textbook and resources from which to draw. Students "team teach" classes on subjects ranging from Constitutional Law to Family Law to Consumer Credit classes. Streetlaw's goal is to provide unique, interactive lesson plans that introduce the student to difficult legal topics in order to generate class discussion on the issues.

Student teachers will be in their second year or third year, having completed the Constitutional Law curriculum at the College of Law, but first year students and those second year students that have not yet completed Constitutional Law are welcome to attend the high school classes as observers and to assist in preparing the class lessons.

Please visit www.StreetLaw.org and www.StreetLaw.com to get more information on the national efforts of the StreetLaw program.

2011 - 2012 Officers:

Faculty Advisor:

Professor John Walton
(815) 753-0120
jwalton@niu.edu