LAW-2129 Marshall Brennan Constitutional Justice in Schools
The goals of this Project and course are expansive: to uplift constitutional understanding, advance democratic values, and promote young people's engagement in politics and government. The Marshall-Brennan Project is named in honor of the late Justices Thurgood Marshall and William J. Brennan, Jr., and is currently offered in less than a dozen law schools in the United States. Students accepted into the course will be known as the Marshall-Brennan Fellows at Suffolk Law School. This course will offer law students a rare opportunity to study constitutional law and to teach it at the same time to area high school students. The academic component of this course consists of a weekly seminar for an academic year. Fellows will learn the intricacies of Constitutional Law as it applies to high school students. Topics will include: Free Speech for Students, Separation of Church and School, Search and Seizure in School, Equal Protection against Race Discrimination, and Due Process in School. The weekly seminar sessions will also provide an opportunity for Marshall-Brennan fellows to discuss their high school classes and for us to explore together pedagogical problems in teaching constitutional law. There will be a two-day session for the Fellows at the beginning of the law school year to provide an orientation to the issues involved in teaching law in high school. Marshall-Brennan Fellows will teach in pairs in local high schools, in classes of no more than twenty. Each pair of Fellows will be expected to teach two one-hour classes per week, either during the high school day or after school. Fellows will also work with their high school students as they prepare for a national moot court competition. In additional to four course credits, Fellows may also be eligible for pro bono credit. This is a four credit course with a single grade at the end of the academic year.
Prerequisite
Student has completed any of the following course(s) LAW 156 - Constitutional Law, LAW 158 - Constitutionl Law II, LAW 552 - Constitutional Law
Offered
Fall, Spring