The use of court cases as educational tools is widely established and deeply entrenched as an effective approach to legal studies education. Exploring legal concepts against the backdrop of a known outcome, in the form of a verdict or a judicial opinion, provides certainty and a foundation for the analytical extension of precedent to new and…

What if you could challenge your 12th graders to understand car crashes in the context of physical forces, manufacturing challenges, government safety standards, and individual rights? With this volume in the "STEM Road Map Curriculum Series," you can! "Car Crashes" outlines a journey that will steer your students toward…

Describes, giving examples, the use of a Socratic game in which a law class is assigned a case to read and in class one student is asked to make argument for the plaintiff, a second to explain the defendent's position, a third to give a judicial ruling with reasons. (JT)

A legal methods course is built upon a teaching case extended over a number of weeks and requiring the students to adopt various litigation roles. The course is described, along with its relation to current trends and questions raised in legal education, particularly education in the first year of law school. (LBH)

Describes a class activity of conducting a mock trial of a pretend situation of a white-tailed deep population creating problems for a town. Procedures, fact sheets, names, and descriptors of characters are provided. (PR)

The guide presents 26 lessons for use by fifth grade classroom teachers as they develop and implement legal education programs. Objectives of the program are to foster understanding of and respect for law, help children understand why rules are necessary, and increase knowledge about the American legal system. It is suggested that the lessons be…