Provides lawyers, planning to work with elementary school children, practical suggestions for making their presentations more effective. Topics include getting to know your clients, pacing your presentation, and fostering interaction through the use of anecdotes and a modified socratic method. (JDH)

Discussing civil and criminal law, state and federal courts, and law in the workplace and marriage, this article provides a quick look at legal issues apt to be important to the average person. The article demonstrates how student's lives, work, and families are affected by the law. (GEA)

Focusing on helping students become literate about law in the public school setting, this article describes a day in the life of a junior high school student and the legal aspects of the situations she encounters. (GEA)

Presents classroom activities, with complete lesson plans, for involving young children in discussions, case studies, role playing, and informal hearings to learn about making democratic decisions, resolving disputes, legal procedures, and due process. (JDH)

Presents five complete lesson plans for class activities that teach children about due process, freedom of speech, and mediation and the adversary process through the use of role playing, mini-mock trials, and case study techniques. (JDH)

Presents three complete lesson plans for class activities that teach youths about the writ of habeas corpus, procedural justice, and due process, through the use of role playing, a criminal law mock trial, and case study techniques. (JDH)

Presents five complete lesson plans for activities that teach high school students about search and seizure, due process, freedom of assembly, right to counsel, and other individual liberties, through the use of case study techniques, a jury simulation, the analysis of historical material, and discussions. (JDH)

Reviews United States Supreme Court decisions regarding the correction of racial and sexual discrimination. Concludes that individuals must make up their own minds concerning whether the Supreme Court has contradicted constitutional guarantees against racial discrimination represented by the fourteenth amendment in deciding its recent cases in…

Prepared as a Law Day speech for the State Bar of Texas, this article examines law and lawyers in the United States, past, present, and future. Includes sections on the adversary system, the legal profession, historical legal theory, and the rule of law. (GEA)

Provides an annotated bibliography of law-related education materials for grades K through 12. The annotations are divided into the following categories: (1) elementary law-related education, (2) juries, (3) opposing viewpoints, (4) practical law, and (5) supplementing law-related education. (JDH)

Offers a lesson in which students use the famous Gault decision in order to differentiate between the rights afforded to juveniles and adults. (JDH)

Examines the pros and cons of various methods of judicial selection (appointment, election, merit selection, etc.) and outlines strategies for making the issues meaningful to students. Discusses the background and importance of judicial independence and describes the appropriate conduct of judges in the political arena. (GEA)

Presents a strategy designed to help secondary students better understand the work of lawyers and think critically about their role. To be used by a classroom teacher alone, or with a visiting lawyer, the lesson discusses the duty of confidentiality and examines the 1973 New York "Case of the Missing Bodies." (GEA)

Offers guidance for conducting Law Day activities in public schools. Maintains that Law Day should be more than a one-shot lecture by lawyers in a high school auditorium. Provides a variety of ideas and aids for planning a successful Law Day program that enhances year-round law-related education efforts. (JDH)

Examines the use of mediation and arbitration to settle civil disputes which have been traditionally settled through the courts. Discusses the advantages of alternative forms of dispute resolution. Describes the operations of dispute resolution centers and provides information about the individuals who serve as dispute mediators. (KO)