Past Projects
Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project
The Marshall-Brennan Project sends law students into high school classrooms to teach Constitutional law using landmark court cases involving the rights of young people in school and the juvenile justice system. Founded in 1999 by Prof. Jamin Raskin at American University’s Washington College of Law, the project is named in honor of former U.S. Supreme Court Justices Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan. The projectÂ’'s goal is to teach students their rights and how to use their knowledge of cases and the Constitution to become effective democratic citizens.
The Civic Ed Project ran Boston's Marshall-Brennan Project from 2004 to 2010, sending dozens of law students into public and charter high schools to teach the Constitutional law. Each year, we held two moot court competitions at Northeastern University School of Law and in 2009 and 2010, we brought 18 Boston-area high school students to Philadelphia to compete in the National Marshall-Brennan High School Moot Court Competition.
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Bottom: William Brennan, Jr., Associate Supreme Court Justice 1956-90.