Dallas Bar Association

Law in the Schools

Each fall, DBA members volunteer to address middle or high school classrooms within Dallas ISD. Basic teaching materials are provided and the time commitment is approximately 3 hours. This is an easy way to make an impact with young students. To volunteer, contact Amy Smith at asmith@dallasbar.org or (214) 220-7484.

Fall 2011:  The Lawyers in the Classroom program will utilize the following curriculum with a variety of landmark case studies (attorneys have a choice of which ones to use) that are a requirement of the TEKS/Assessment tests: http://www.texasbar.com/civics/index.html

For this Fall, we are focusing our presentations on Landmark Court Cases that Texas Students Need to Know for their Assessment Tests.

For the Middle School Level:

·         Marbury v. Madison (1803)

·         McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)

·         Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)

·         Worcester v. Georgia (1832)

·         Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)

For the High School Level:

·         Schenck v. United States (1919)

·         Sweatt v. Painter (1950)

·         Mapp v. Ohio (1961)

·         Miranda v. Arizona (1966)

·         White v. Regester (1973)

·         Grutter v. Bollinger (2003)

Here’s an Idea:  Split the class in half and plan a Debate between the following cases above:

1.     Sweatt v. Grutter

2.    Mapp v. Miranda