What is Street Law:

Street Law began as a project at Georgetown Law Center in 1972. Four law students and their professor, in an innovative public law clinical program, were looking for a way to provide young people with information about the law that would assist them in their daily lives.

The law students began their work in two District of Columbia public high schools. The original idea was to devise a preventive law approach that would also provide students with knowledge of what to do when confronted with a legal problem. Over the next three years the program in D.C. was so successful that it spread to all the city's sixteen high schools.

Excerpts taken from National Street Law Website

Who we are:

Law students visit area high schools on a weekly basis starting in January. We teach high school students for approximately ten weeks general aspects of the law and how to prepare and compete in an area wide mock trial competition.

Both high school students and law students are able to learn and grow through the experience. The program gives high school students an opportunity to begin thinking of higher education from the start. The Street Law Program is also a great way for the law students to give back to their surrounding community.