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Professors from the University of Missouri School of Law presented on five different topics. The resources listed below include the lesson plans created by Paul Schmanke and the professors’ power points that are available.
Speaker: Professor Rigel Oliveri
St. Louis Neighborhoods: The African American Experience
This lesson explores how neighborhoods across the St. Louis region were affected by community and government polices to geographically isolate African Americans through systematic limits placed on home ownership. Numerous prime source documents are made available as a tool to tell the story of African American housing policy in the St. Louis region during the early to late 20th century.
Professor Oliveri provided several primary documents:
Speaker: Professor Frank Bowman
The United States Criminal Justice System
This PowerPoint presentation give students the opportunity to take a walk through the United States Criminal Justice System from the arrest to the sentencing process with an emphasis on the indictment process.
Professor Bowman provided several primary documents:
Speaker: Professor Chris Wells
Protesting
This presentation gives students an overview of first amendment rights all protestors in the United States possess. The when, where, what, why and how of protesting is examined in effort to give student a first-hand account protestors rights in the United States.
Professor Wells provided several primary documents:
Speaker: Professor Doug Abrams
Click here to download Professor Abrams’ power point presentation.
Speaker: Professor Erin Hawley
IRAC and Case Briefing
This handout can give students a peek into the life of a law school. How a judicial opinion should be read and a law school question should be answered are both detailed in these handouts.
Download the handouts here:
The United States Supreme Court
This material is a fun way to engage students about the dynamics of the United State Supreme Court through an internet search activity of the Supreme Court website and a “Name the Judge” handout.
Download the presentation and handouts here:
Speaker: Professor Melody Daily
School Speech
This lesson provides the four major United States Supreme Court cases involving student speech in schools along with a handout that student can complete to establish a better understand of student speech rights in public schools.
Download professor Daily’s power point and handouts here:
