Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project

The Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project is an educational fellowship program in which law students act as teaching fellows, teaching constitutional law and oral advocacy courses in underserved high schools. Headquartered at the Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C., the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project was founded in the fall of 1999 by Professor Jamie Raskin. The program began as a way of addressing civic disengagement and a lack of political participation. The teaching fellows work with teachers, administrators and lawyers to teach high school students their rights as citizens, the strategic benefits of voting, how lawmaking occurs, and other fundamental constitutional processes. High school students in the program have the opportunity to practice the

Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project

The Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project is an educational fellowship program in which law students act as teaching fellows, teaching constitutional law and oral advocacy courses in underserved high schools. Headquartered at the Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C., the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project was founded in the fall of 1999 by Professor Jamie Raskin. The program began as a way of addressing civic disengagement and a lack of political participation. The teaching fellows work with teachers, administrators and lawyers to teach high school students their rights as citizens, the strategic benefits of voting, how lawmaking occurs, and other fundamental constitutional processes. High school students in the program have the opportunity to practice the