Law-Related Education Program

The State Bar is pleased to announce that the activities of the Georgia Law-Related Education Consortium have been relocated from the Carl Vinson Institute of Government at the University of Georgia to the State Bar's headquarters. The Law-Related Education ("LRE") Program offers K-12 teachers a wide variety of strategies for including LRE in their social science education curriculum, as well as suggestions for relating LRE to English, science and math curricula.

The program's outreach efforts fall into four key categories: teacher workshops, exhibitions at teacher conferences, collaboration in the Bar's Journey Through Justice program at the Bar Center, and The LRE Circuit newsletter publication. The program also works with the LRE Committee of the Young Lawyers Division to update the high school textbook An Introduction to Law in Georgia, and it administers the Georgia Law Honor Society of Secondary Schools, which promotes and rewards strong academic achievement and community service in law-related fields.

The LRE Program is currently looking for Bar members interested in becoming docents in the Journey Through Justice program or in sponsoring activities related to Law Day, which is celebrated on May 1 each year. Attorneys interested in these or other LRE activities should contact Deborah Craytor at 404-527-8785 or DeborahCC@gabar.org.
 
More information on the Law-Related Education Program.