Law-Related Education

The newsletter of the ISBA’s Standing Committee on Law-Related Education for the Public

July 2017 • Volume 4 • Number 1 •

July 2017 Law Related Education for the Public Newsletter

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In This Issue

LRE news

By Lauren Evans DeJong

An introduction to this issue from co-editor Lauren Evans DeJong.
Constitution Day—September 17, 2017

By Nancy Easum

On September 17, 2017, the United States Constitution will be 230 years old.

The Pledge of Allegiance and the battle between civil rights & civics education

By Lauren Evans DeJong

The history of the Pledge of Allegiance and the legal challenges to its recitation provide not only an interesting exploration of the tensions between the important role of schools and other units of government in promoting civic values and education while also maintaining the rights of Americans to exercise their religious freedoms and civil rights.

14th Amendment’s essential role to equality

By Mitchell Weatherill

The Fourteenth Amendment has been the basis for most of the legislation and case law that have driven progress away from exclusion and slavery to democracy and freedom.

International legal education: A scholar’s journey

By Sheena L. Hart

Law student Sheena Hart has found that the best way to learn international law is to have a passion for understanding how the United States legal system interacts with foreign legal systems.

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