Fall 2024
Professor(s):
Lisa Turboff (ADJUNCT)
Credits: 4
Course Areas: Practice Skills - Clinics and Externships
Time: 4:00p-6:00p W Location: 221
Course Outline: Law students will teach students in Houston Area high schools and juvenile probation facilities about the law focusing on constitutional law and advocacy skills. Street Law empowers young people to be active, engaged citizens by equipping them with the legal knowledge and advocacy skills they need to successfully participate in their communities.
Law students will gain important and useful skills applicable to all future practice areas including, gaining a greater understanding of substantive law; learning how to effectively explain that law to lay people; developing public speaking skills; fostering the ability to think on their feet; improving legal research and writing skills; and understanding the legal system in the context of persons directly affected by it.
Students will participate in a weekly seminar class that will provide the resources and tools necessary for teaching the law to high school age students and will commit to teach approximately 3 hours a week in a high school or a juvenile probation facility. This includes preparing lesson plans and developing innovative and creative teaching skills to encourage enthusiastic class participation. Students will have substantial creative license in the creation of their specific and unique teaching techniques.
Students must complete 50 hours of course work per course credit hour.
Course Syllabus: Syllabus
Course Notes: (Face-to-Face) The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. For this instruction mode, instructors and students are expected to normally be physically present in the classroom. If the course has a final examination, it will be in a classroom requiring your physical presence. Other assessment, such as a mid-term exam, may also be in a classroom. Whether this instructor will offer “remote presence” (starting a zoom meeting from the podium computer to enable student remote access on an occasional basis) for part or all of the semester is not known, but students should not rely on an expectation that remote presence will be available.
Quota=8.
Students should not attempt to enroll themselves in this course. Approval is needed from the instructor prior to registration for this course. Students must apply by completing an online survey. The online survey interest form can be found at
https://uhlc.wufoo.com/forms/z55ewx117hc6hb/
Students will be contacted by the instructor once the online survey is completed.
For more information about Street Law please go to the following page -
https://www.law.uh.edu/center4clp/streetlaw.asp
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This course will have:
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Paper:
Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No
Experiential Course Type: simulation
Bar Course: No
DistanceEd ABA: No
Pass-Fail Student Election: Unavailable (Instructor Preference)
Course Materials
Special Case
Course Materials: Book will be provided during the class to students. Information to be announced.
