May 14, 2008: William H. Karchmer end-of-year celebration for D.C. Marshall-Brennan high school students March 29-30, 2008: National High School Moot Court Competition in cooperation with Moot Court Honor Society of Washington College of Law March 28, 2008: Marshall-Brennan conference for partner Marshall-Brennan Projects from law schools across the U.S. March 8, 2008: William H. Karchmer High School Moot Court spring competition for local Marshall-Brennan students, to be held at U.S. Courthouse, Washington, D.C. November 17, 2007: William H. Karchmer High School Moot Court fall competition for local Marshall-Brennan students. Competition winners: Nilo Hollmann, Cardozo High School; Gabrielle Stecchino, Kennedy High School, petitioners. Danziel Bright, Eastern High School; Christopher Canas-Pena, Wilson High School, respondents. September 7 - 8, 2007: Professors Raskin and Ahranjani speak at the 25th Annual American Bar Association Law-Related Education Leadership Conference in New Orleans July 24 - 27, 2007: Professor Raskin will be speaking at the 14th Annual Education Law Conference in Portland, Maine
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Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project
American University
Washington College of Law
4801 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 515
Washington, DC 20016
Tel: 202-274-4263
Fax: 202-730-4709
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In the fall of 1999, Professor Jamin Raskin of American University Washington College of Law launched the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project named in honor of the late United States Supreme Court Justices Thurgood Marshall and William J. Brennan, Jr. This project, founded with the enthusiastic support of Mrs. Cissy Marshall and the late Mrs. Mary Brennan, was designed to mobilize talented second- and third-year law students to teach courses on constitutional law and juvenile justice in public high schools in the District of Columbia and Maryland. In recent years the program has expanded to law schools across the country.
This movement for constitutional literacy is rooted in the belief that students will profit for a lifetime from learning the system of rights and responsibilities under the U.S. Constitution. Many citizens do not participate and feel disengaged from politics. The Marshall-Brennan Fellows work with teachers, administrators and lawyers to teach students their rights as citizens, the strategic benefits of voting, how lawmaking occurs and other fundamental constitutional processes.
Marshall-Brennan
Marshall-Brennan at the Washington College of Law
Marshall-Brennan National
