Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project

# Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project Founded at American University Washington College of Law in 1999 and named for Justices Thurgood Marshall and William J. Brennan Jr., the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project places upper-level law students in high school classrooms to teach a year-long course in constitutional law and oral advocacy. Chapters run at law schools across roughly 18 states. ## What You'll Do - Take a year-long constitutional law course taught by law student fellows at your own school - Study real Supreme Court cases on student speech, search and seizure, due process, and equal protection - Learn oral advocacy: brief a case, build an argument, and answer questions from the bench - Apply assigned case facts to argue as a Marshall-Brennan scholar in your chapter's regional moot court round - Advance to the national Youth Law Summit and Marshall-Brennan National Moot Court Competition & Conference in Washington, DC ## Who Should Apply High school students whose school hosts a Marshall-Brennan chapter through a partner law school; students and teachers at schools without a chapter can contact the project or a nearby participating law school about starting one. There is no separate student application fee structure published - participation runs through the classroom course. ## Outcomes Scholars finish with a genuine constitutional law course on their transcript, appellate-style argument experience, and networking with law students, faculty, and judges at the national conference - a strong signal for pre-law and public policy applicants.