Law
{Bowling Green State University} Pre-Law Camp
Are you interested in law or what it takes to become a lawyer? Can you picture yourself in the front of a courtroom? (Or Can you picture yourself as the star of a courtroom drama?) Then start your journey now with the Bowling Green State University Pre-Law Camp and experience what it is like to be a part of the legal community. Throughout camp you’ll have the chance to hear from law students, law professors and other professionals across all backgrounds and disciplines of the field.
{Envision} Intensive Law & Trial
Join other motivated high school students to get one step closer to a possible future career as a legal professional. Intensive Law & Trial allows you to immerse yourself in the theory and practice of law and to develop a roadmap for becoming a lawyer. At this 10-day program you’ll be exposed to the practice of law, legal rhetoric, and ethics from pre-eminent legal professionals, including Stanford Law School professors. You’ll also develop and practice essential legal skills such as making impactful opening and closing arguments, preparing cases, and readying witnesses for cross-examinations. In a simulation endorsed by the American Mock Trial Association, you will prepare for a court case, just as any attorney does—you’ll practice the art of creating effective oral arguments, directly examine and cross-examine witnesses, gain an understanding of evidence and its integrity, and learn how to manage a courtroom. Powerful skills workshops will help you develop your own personal mission statement to set and attain your future academic and career goals. Intensive Law & Trial can help you better understand what you might want to study in college and which schools make the most sense for you. Intensive Law & Trial can also help you to hone your leadership abilities to be more effective in college, career, and life.
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{Envision} National Youth Leadership Forum: Law and CSI
Spend six amazing days in Washington, D.C. that will put you on the path to a career in law or crime scene investigation (CSI). Join other high school students from around the country for this extraordinary opportunity to learn from and interact with subject-matter experts, gain invaluable hands-on experience, and be empowered to fully realize your true potential.
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{George Washington University} Fundamentals of Law Summer Immersion
In this course, students will learn about the legal system including the trial process and advocating for clients. In addition, students will learn areas of law impacting young adults such as contract, civil, and personal property law. Students will engage in the legal community by meeting with attorneys and analysing court cases. Students will also explore legal ethics and the role lawyers play in the justice system.
{Georgetown University} Law Academy
From corporate attorneys and prosecutors to politicians and a sitting Supreme Court justice, many of the nation's lawmakers, administrators, and interpreters received their education at Georgetown. As a student in the Law Academy, you’ll follow in the footsteps of these distinguished legal professionals. Through lectures, field trips, guest speakers, and discussion sections, our program offers not only an introduction to jurisprudence, but also a firsthand look at how laws are adjudicated and administered. You’ll examine the most vexing issues of our day and explore how America's legal institutions change as popular values, standards, and perspectives evolve. At the end of the program, you’ll have the opportunity to put your skills to practice and take part in a complete mock trial.
{Leadership Initiative} Advanced Law & Trial Internship Summit
The Advanced Law & Trial Internship Summit is a first-of-its-kind program that allows motivated high school students to intern with Goodwin Weber PLLC on cases of national importance. In this accelerated internship, students will spend seven days working on one of three cases. This year students can choose between a whistleblower and retaliation case involving a federal agent who reported misconduct by the highest levels of his agency; an international money laundering and whistleblowing case involving endangered animals and environmental crimes, or an international money laundering or tax fraud investigation involving the Panama and Paradise Papers.
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{National Student Leadership Conference} Law & Advocacy
Try your case as a lawyer in a courtroom at the NSLC on Law & Advocacy. At the National Student Leadership Conference’s high school summer law program, the courtroom becomes your classroom as you assume the role of trial attorney and battle for justice. Work hand-in-hand with practising attorneys as you examine the evidence, research the issues and build your case. Guilty or innocent, prosecution or defense, you and your co-counsel affect the outcome.
{National Student Leadership Conference} Law Intensive
Follow your case – from trial to appeal – at the NSLC Law Intensive. At the NSLC Law Intensive spend 18 days exploring the American legal system. Master courtroom techniques during a challenging mock criminal trial. Then, explore the constitutional issues facing attorneys and judges at the appellate level during an exciting moot court competition. Throughout this program you’ll discover the variety of careers available in the legal field.
{Ohio University} Summer Law & Trial Institute
The Summer Law & Trial Institute is a 12-day immersive residential program that aims to increase understanding of the law and its possibilities among Ohio high school students from Southeast Ohio. The program also seeks to foster an interest in all aspects of legal education, service, and issues, and to create the next generation of legal, advocacy, and community professionals.
{Rhodes College} Mock Trial Academy
Rhodes College Mock Trial is the nation’s most successful collegiate mock trial program. Last year, our team qualified for its 33rd consecutive National Championship Tournament. Since our founding in 1987, we have been in 9 national championship rounds, won 4 national championship titles, produced more than 70 All-Americans, and earned 10 Reynoldson Coaching Awards. Our program’s founder, Dr. Marcus Pohlmann, is a Hall of Fame coach and a Past President of the American Mock Trial Association.
To celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Rhodes Mock Trial, we started a mock trial academy for talented high school mock trial students from all over the country. As we have developed the program, we have decided to offer students the chance to study on campus for one week. Students will have the opportunity to work with experienced coaches, who have a demonstrated record of success developing skills in public speaking and presentation, and learn how to effectively present an argument and develop an understanding of constitutional laws related to the judicial system.
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{Summer Discovery} Law & Government
At Summer Discovery, we’ve balanced the scales by offering you, the high school student, a well-rounded program in the exciting fields of law and government. Our intensive program will allow you to explore the American legal system as you learn about what it takes to become a lawyer. Our Law and Government Program will give you the opportunity to rule your future by developing a “legal mind” while gaining a full understanding of the legal process. Through the Law and Government Program at Summer Discovery, you will be immersed in the study of law and its practices. Our courses are geared toward high school students and specified to fit the learning styles considered most effective for young adults.
{Summer Springboard} Trial Law Course
Master courtroom processes as you defend a challenging case from start to finish. Research the evidence, craft and deliver your opening statement, prepare and cross-examine witnesses, craft your arguments, and have a strong closing statement to impress and win over the judge and jury. During the program, students will meet with legal professionals to gain insight into their daily activities and learn more about their career journeys. This will be a unique opportunity for students to ask questions and get exposure to a “day in the life” of legal and judicial experts.
{Susquehanna University} Exploring Legal Careers
The Exploring Legal Careers summer workshop is taught by Susquehanna University faculty with relevant backgrounds and experience in public law, public policy and pre-law advising. Workshop attendees will explore a variety of legal careers, learning from practitioners, and consider these within the legal environment in contemporary America. On a theoretical level, you will learn about the structure of America's legal system and the political and legal foundations of current issues facing the country. On a practical level, faculty will provide information and encourage discussion on the paths students could follow for law-related careers, including discussion of undergraduate majors and of best practices for eventually gaining admission to post-graduate programs. You will meet lawyers and judges in the field and learn about the kinds of cases they manage. You will acquire hands-on experience preparing for a Mock Trial simulation and, on the final day, you will stage the Mock Trial with other workshop students. Come learn more about the legal process and a career in law!
💰 Scholarships Available
{Syracuse University} Criminal and Corporate Law
This program provides an extensive survey of criminal law and procedure and corporate law. While exploring criminal law, the course will track what happens from apprehension and arrest to due process and sentencing. We will also learn about the policies and various participants in modern criminal law. In corporate law, we will dedicate our time to hands-on areas such as Business Formation, Wills and Estates, Real Estate, and Contracts. A field trip to the court each week is the highlight of the summer program.
{University of Chicago} Pathways in Law
What is law, in theory and practice? This course introduces students to ways of thinking about issues of law and legal legitimacy, particularly as they relate to the work of judges. First, we will study different schools of thought about what law “is” -- whether we can lay claim to a “higher law” which determines human and civil rights, for example, or whether law is simply an expression of a source of authority’s political force and will -- and the process through which legal determinations should be made.
{University of Pennsylvania} Penn Law Pre-College Academy
The Penn Law Pre-College Academy is a rigorous academic program that gives high school students from around the world the opportunity to experience law school at a world-class university. This three-week intensive academy provides a well-rounded introduction to the American legal system and how law is practiced in the United States, and also allows students to pursue their own interests in either of two specialized fields of law: Business & Entrepreneurship Law or Human Rights & Legal Advocacy.
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{University of Southern California} Legal Reasoning and Argumentation
Have you ever wondered how lawyers think, and why they think, differently from other people? Learn the skills necessary for successful legal reasoning and how to relate this knowledge to everyday problems. Watch federal appellate court proceedings and see these skills applied (and mis-applied) in real life. At the end of the course, you will have a portfolio of documents that demonstrate your experience with legal analysis and writing.
{Wake Forest University} Summer Immersion: Law Institute
Find out what it’s really like to be a lawyer. This is your chance to investigate a criminal justice case at Wake Forest School of Law’s Innocence and Justice Clinic through the search for what happened. Learn to analyze evidence, make your argument, network with judges and attorneys and dive into the law industry to discover if this is the career path for you!
💰 Scholarships Available